Unlike many forms of martial arts, styles of kung fu were not taught to just any person. Martial arts were meant to teach masses of people to fight for the purpose of raising and training armies. A kung fu school’s primary purpose is to train people of good character to balance the power within communities. Balancing the power of men of peace, with that of men driven by greed, war and power is its focus and hand skills.
Kung fu differentiates itself from other forms of martial arts, many shifus would spread their spiritual understandings of the universe with the communities that they visited and taught. A kung fu school is like a family not an enterprise. A kung fu or martial art school should not be evaluated on the basis of membership numbers or the income it generates, but on the effect it has on the individual and the community it serves.