Originally Posted by
Old Noob
Bruce,
I agree with most of what you've said here, particularly with regard to how EML moves. But to say that the great martial artists in the sytem became great because of their own hard work and not from Sin The's teaching isn't totally fair. While The is definitely a liar (either to his students or under oath), his students, even his great ones, learned from their own hard work AND from Sin The's teaching. After all, they're still doing SD's stuff. I know that pretty much all of SD's internal comes from other places, but I'm talking about the external portion. Both Grooms and Nance, and the others who are the good MAs in the system, still practice the external sets of the system and they haven't relearned all of the stuff from other systems. They've taken what they've learned (from Sin The) and, through independent research, hard work, and natural talent, improved upon it.