Kung Fu has failed to adapt, by which I do not mean MMA, but changing market conditions. The quotes in the article more blame young people than having an idea

Kung Fu has failed to adapt, by which I do not mean MMA, but changing market conditions. The quotes in the article more blame young people than having an idea of what's not working. I've done many martial arts, but I'm not here to debate whether Kung Fu is effective. It's not, but there is no reason why it cannot be. What makes a martial art effective is simply having a large population of skilled practitioners. It can be institutional support like Judo in Japan, or wrestling in the US. Or it can be effective marketing like BJJ. Anyone with real fighting skill can tell you that an art's effective has little to do with its techniques. Technique is only a starting point, that practitioners constantly improve upon. What is needed is a large number of highly competitive and athletic bodies to constantly test and improve on. It's brute force algorithm 101. Nothing can replace experience when actually fighting, because you don't have time to think. Kung Fu will lose every time, unless they get institutional support, because you have practitioners who not only have questionable methods, they know nothing about building athletes either. Step on a wrestling mat or BJJ practice and compare the intensity versus a Kung Fu class. There's your answer right there. There is no 'kung fu' in Kung Fu. I've got nothing against Kung Fu. I've learned some interesting concepts. But, similar to Aikido's flashy technique, I am able to put them to use from being a master in another art. Whereas its practitioners cannot. Maybe a "high level" many year practitioner can do it, as they will tell you it takes many years, but that to me just tells me they are doing this the wrong and slow way. Even Olympic martial arts have shown that countries like Japan are far behind modern science in competitions. One can only image how backwards some random Nth generation guy in your neighborhood is. Again, nothing against Kung Fu in theory, and maybe it had its heydey at some point, but a lot more needs to be done to save any of it. And it won't matter what style or what not - everyone is different even within a style.