Originally Posted by
MightyB
:eek: right on brother, right on. I like your "bell ringing" post too. It's such an obvious problem, yet by the responses I just don't get it.
My thought is Why would anyone drill such a rediculous on-guard stance constantly in their "applications" drills or sparring when it's obvious that it's not a good ready stance for really getting it in and mixing it up?
But the ready stance is just one of my pet-peeves. The other is I don't think TCMA really addresses or teaches attack properly.
It goes back to the rediculous on-guard stance. That stance is great for the "if he does this, then you do this" approach to teaching. It's fine for that... but that style of teaching is very counter productive to martial development. IMO, here's why: when you do that, you create a psychology of bad things happen if you attack. Maybe that's not a bad thing, but for a competitive martial artist, it's a terrible handicap. You don't learn how to open an oppenent through attacks, you don't learn ringmanship, you don't learn combinations, there's a lot that you miss out on and then you are left to make it up... often times when you're in the middle of things. And then you are psychologicaly are scared because in the back of your mind you're thinking that if you throw this kick or punch, bad things are going to happen to you. And then you really have a problem.