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Originally posted by lkfmdc
If you are training in a San Shou program linked back to the original military San Shou then you are learning how to clinch to BOTH strike and grapple. Wrestling will teach you to clinch to takedown, not to strike and not to defend against the strike, and wrestlers of the collegiate/free style do things that in a submission and striking venue would be BAD BAD BAD (poor student of mine who is excellent college wrestler and is getting schooled in grappling by newbies who know how to choke and neck crank LOL)
Muay Thai severly limits the "grappling" and if you study it with a coach who isnt' thinking MMA, things he can show you that work in a strict MT fight will get you killed in MMA.
My personal favorite to cross train with San Shou is Russian Sambo, and in fact during period of cooperation between China and Soviet Union it was a common event to have these two cross trained (Soviet San Shou team). Sambo is very wrestling based, but with arm and leg locks, good sambo guys with military background also CHOKE...
But if real San Shou or good Sambo isn't around you, I'd strongly suggest you buy Erik Paulson's stuff, most intergrated and most like San Shou of ANYTHING I have ever seen
What kind of stuff from Erik Paulson? Books and video's? Any specific book or video to look for? Thanks.