Originally Posted by
AdrianUK
just a little uncorrected as the guys with no sash on looked the same as the guys with colored sashes and the techniques just looked stiff, more like blocking than reacting and deflecting if thats the right image to give
Something else thing one might consider.......
We know that real fights are rough, chaotic, & unpredictable. They do not look anything like the fights shown in kung fu movies........ Similarly, the more realistic (and hence, applicable) a drill is, the more "uncorrected" and wild it is likely to look.
If a school mostly trains drills that are: pretty to look at, choreographed, or predictable, where everything flows smoothly all the time, -I'd have to wonder how much fighting skill they're actually imparting to their students. (Probably not much.)
-Lawrence
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