Originally posted by Hua Lin Laoshi
For a mantis practitioner to be as good with them as the judo practitioner he would have to train similarly to the judo player.
I think that's the point he was trying to make.
I don't buy the 'you have to practice it all day every day to make it work' type of argument.
Practicing for an hour a day 5 days a week make the player good, not the style.
not necessarily to make it work, but to make it work against a good exponent of the style in question. That's pretty common sense. If in a two hour class, you spend 15 mins warming up, 30 mins on technique drills, 30 mins on throwing and 15 mins on conditoning, will you be more proficient at throwing than the guy who in a two hour class spends 1.5 hours of it throwing?
Heck, try it. When I was in CMA, we grappled somewhat, but not regularly. A friend from class and I got together, bought a copy of the fighter's notebook and would train grappling for 2 hours every saturday. When we grappled in class, we killed everyone, merely because we were putting in more time.
BTW, nice sig, BTL - that's one of my favorite moments on king of the hill!
Last edited by SevenStar; 02-03-2005 at 12:49 PM.
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