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As per gong-fu revival, how about just putting a sword into it and making sure it's dead?

Move on to something else? Like sticking a sword into karate, too, and TKD ... putting them out of their...

Kindof like lkfmdc's posts seem so full of sound and fury, signifying nothing ...

Everytime somebody tries to say, "Oh, traditional martial arts were so deadly."

LKMFDC and the MMA mob, "It...

You sell your style, they sell their style.

In the end, all that's left of your fighting each other is just dust in the wind.

I noticed the that with some of my baguazhang forms, my muscles grew in places where it was noticably harder to hurt me with common strikes. No qi involved.

I just wish I could still do that...

If it's good training, that doesn't hurt your body, maybe you can train so much.

I stopped because of my knee -- it started hurting when I did baguahang. My teacher at the time did Tui Na on it,...

Yeah, I can google, too. I'm not a complete idiot. I was wondering what others had to say on the topic, and especially if they knew of videos that aren't commonly advertised.

About the best I've come up with so far is this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQXLjmDJVg.

Anybody know of any other good ones?

Thanks!

I'm in search of something to study not requiring dealing with another teacher / belt system / all of that, something on video. Also, not requiring a lot of low stances, as my knee starts hurting for...

I know what you mean. It was the same thing with my baguazhang teacher, who was from the PRC but in Seattle. Finally after years he taught me a lot of partner forms, but there was nobody except him...

Every argument on here goes like this.

A) It's like this.
B) No it's not.
A) #$&*(#&$#(&*#
B) $&*(#$&*(#$*(#

End of argument.

Yeah, sorry, I did actually READ the thing and it was about Islam.

But I grew up amongst Christians, and I forgot when I started to post that about Tyke-won-do and Satanism that my own parents...

Oh, I guess I'm just over that search now. When I walked out the door that was it. I basically gave up on it.

That, and since you didn't do go to tournaments anymore for some reason, and you only...

I don't disparage the 'arts', just that the current teaching format that most people offer doesn't seem to work for me. I'm not going to travel 10,000 miles to learn something -- it just isn't that...

I spent a lot of time in 2007 checking out styles of CMA and studying applications, etc. I don't think TCMA is dead, but I think unless instructors change their format (more sanshou / sanda) or...

I'd say 'internalists' -- that is, those that study the so-called 'internal' styles, especially tiajiquan, don't fight for anything, especially compared to MMA or something like that.

I had a lot...

I think you don't really get what I'm getting at is ... typical CMA / tournament the applications that are covered represent maybe 5% of the CMA applications of the forms, if that. Sanshou / Sanda...

What next? Is Tyke-won-do actually Satanism in disguise? What?

(Oh, actually I probably shouldn't joke, because some Christians think all Eastern martial arts are kindof like Satanism ... LOL)

Yeah, MMA doesn't have any weapons. Not that most people carry around an 80 lb guan dao in their back pocket.

Well, if someday I get enough money to set up a school and design a curriculum, maybe...

I don't think forms are useless, because I think they not might be too bad for solo work.

I came to this conclusion because I took apart my forms, and started drilling applications separately,...

What? I took a mostly forms based MA for 5+ years ... I never said I never learned any forms. I just don't want to study any more forms from anybody else, ever, I think.

I guess whenever I start thinking, "I want to take a MA." I go out and look what's out there, get frustrated, come on here, and think, "Okay, this is what I want."

Like the baguazhang I took, if...

When I took aikido for a few months, and judo as well, they structure their classes with applications first rather than forms, and there were few complaints or people quitting. If karate/TKD/CMA...

Anyway, I think the counter to this would be for traditional styles to work on applications more up front and sooner in their curriculum, rather than later. For example, rather than in a lot of...

I was thinking about the current MMA popularity and wondering why there aren't more people enrolled in martial arts schools and traditional martial arts, when I came across this article.
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Now that ... that I think is a different point.

It's funny watching people do forms sometimes and they are copying old men, and they do their form like an old man would do it. It shows they never...