Originally Posted by
t_niehoff
Putting aside all the personal attacks, and the question of "how good" any particular person is -- which as I've tried to point out doesn't matter -- the issue here is a simple one: what is the best, most effective way to train to develop fighting skill?
If we look at fighting as we do any other sport or athletic activity (since the mechanism or process for the development of physical skill is the same), then we can see that this is done by looking at the elite since what they are doing in their training has made them elite. You don't learn howto do something well by looking to people who don't do it or don't do it well.
Now, this is not to say that we can all duplicate the amount or intensity the elite put into their training, but we can do the same things they do, use the same process, mirroring their training at our own level. This is precisely what people do in athletics -- amatuer boxers train like the pro's, following the same training process, just not at the same level of intentiy. Same with wrestlers and all other athletes. The level of intensity of their training changes as they develop, it progressively gets more intense, to develop higher level of skills. Yet, from beginners to the elite, they are all doing pretty much the same fundamental things. By looking not to individual cases but across the population of the elite, we can by seeing what they are doing in common, what it is that produces their results.
When people suggest doing things other than what these elite - and other proven, good fighters - do, the issue then becomes one of evidence. Where is the evidence that training this "other way" produces good results?