I used to train kung long fist. I was training a kati (kata in Chinese) that was very flowery (literally, the name of the routine had the word "flower" in it).

I used to train kung long fist. I was training a kati (kata in Chinese) that was very flowery (literally, the name of the routine had the word "flower" in it). It felt useless and so I asked the teacher what some weirder moves were used for... First thing he was pleased I asked, most students doesn't. Then he showed me... it was just brutal, several moves were bone breaking grappling moves designed to be used as counter attacks. I suspect most practitioners don't know this because people don't want to learn this grossly violent stuff, and so teachers don't make and effort to teach what exactly they are learning, and several of the moves were risky and opportunistic, not the thing a newbie can pull off in actual combat.