"MMA" Vs. "Traditional", "Traditional" Vs. "MMA"

[Ford Prefect]

Ford - Why did you give up the western stuff? Were you told that PBN's bagua methods would give you all the muscular, CV, etc work you needed?

Yeah. The old "Lifting weights will hamper your internal development" and "time spent lifting is time spent away from practicing MA" arguments. I really wanted to give the stuff a chance, so I threw myself in 120%. I practiced for a couple hours in the morning and couple at night. I ended up a lot more flaxible, especially in the hips, but everything else was rediculous compared to where it was before.

[Christopher M]

That's really unfortunate; all the more for not being too unusual, I guess. I think those ideas (along with things like "stance training is for building strength") are very detrimental to people's experience, not just for denying them those potential benefits and for imposing upon what should be independant interests, but also for generating confusion as to what the internal training methods are doing.