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still love the brisk commercial someone post of chuck... was pretty funny. :)
nice clip, but I would say its more of a kup choi.
Does not look as powerful as a real gong fu sow choy,
mainly because of his lack of relaxation and rooting…
He showed the same punch to the guys when he was a coach on TUF. I brought that up when one of our resident MMA experts made the claim that swinging arm strikes are not effective. That sure looks like a swinging arm to me.
only in mma would you be caught with such a punch anywhere else i'd be ashamed to be hit by such a long swinging punch
esox and fei li....let's see the clips of you fighting other world class fighters. Don't be shy. share them with us.
If you know the purpose of the technique, then it makes sense. If you don't, then it looks like a wide, predictable swing...
Sow Choy's if done right can leave you in a world of trouble. don't EVER underestimate it.Quote:
only in mma would you be caught with such a punch anywhere else i'd be ashamed to be hit by such a long swinging punch
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if you have never trained to use the sow choy....you can only speculate about its effectiveness. however, hung gar, wing chun, and other systems that i've shown the sow choy to....or how we use our sow choy.....left them ALL with a different APPRECIATION for it. but, hey, its not your thing. its cool. I hope you never get hit with one though.Quote:
I just have to admit that I really don't get those long techniques
this thread is a GREAT example of what I was just saying in the "Reality in TCMA - MIA" thread! :rolleyes:
Sow Choy is STILL effective though. PERIOD.Quote:
this thread is a GREAT example of what I was just saying in the "Reality in TCMA - MIA" thread!
If the sow choy was ineffective in combat, it would have been left out, or evolved into something else. but i know from my own experience many people don't understand it.
i'm happy i come from one of those chinatown schools. im confident in our material and how we use it.
Yeah I can accept that and you're right I've tried those styles and they're not for me so i'll not pretend to be knowledgeable in that area, it's just that coming from a background of styles that aim to be standing on ya toes I just wonder how those long techniques are that effective outside of competition fighting.
In the past, the sow choy has been responsible for the breakage of necks in real life combat. See, if you practice the LONG techniques long enough you'll come to know them pretty well. inside and out. you'll know that for one, there's a time to use them and a time NOT to use them. same thing goes for a kicker. a kicker would never kick you while you're fresh and able to reverse the damage on you.
There is a saying in my branch about training the long techniques to have stronger shorter ones.