CMAists, Do you fight?

[SifuAbel]

.....with a spear gun.....and a rusty tip.

Please don't overcomplicate this with semantics. If you don't know what is meant by this poll then you are obviously in the "no" category.

Sparring/fighting/loud obssesive touching; whatever you want to call it. Ok?!

[Fuzzly]

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Sparring/fighting/loud obssesive touching; whatever you want to call it. Ok?!

I'd call that a good party.

[SifuAbel]

Bump for further voting.

[NJM]

double post, my bad.

[NJM]

Full Contact all the way. A lot of lighter sparring, too.

[Oso]

******, got suckered in to an old ass poll...screw you Abel


but, yea, from the time I lay gasping and trying to pull my nutz out of my guts in July of '82 to this past weekend when a student of mine earned the priveledge (Sp?) of me whipping out some of my hung gar tiger on hizzazz it still works, btw.

[Knifefighter]

Let's make this a bit more of an objective poll.

Who can post a clip of their "full contact" fighting?

[SifuAbel]

Are you calling all these people liars?


AJM, bodhitree, ChoyLeeFat, cranky old man, DeLamar.J, EarthDragon, Flying-Monkey, Fu-Pow, ginosifu, golden arhat, Golden Arms, GreenCloudCLF, gwa sow, Liokault, lkfmdc, Lost Oath, MasterKiller, Mutant, n00b, NJM, Oso, Ravenshaw, Rockwood, shuaichiao, Sifu Darkfist, SifuAbel, SiuHung, Sow Choy, sunfist, TenTigers, Ultimatewingchun, Vajramusti, WinterPalm, xcakid, xSHoX



Is your clip supposed to be full contact?

[golden arhat]

i could probably get some footage of me fighting i'l try tomorrow or on saturday or sunday when i go training

[Knifefighter]

Are you calling all these people liars?


AJM, bodhitree, ChoyLeeFat, cranky old man, DeLamar.J, EarthDragon, Flying-Monkey, Fu-Pow, ginosifu, golden arhat, Golden Arms, GreenCloudCLF, gwa sow, Liokault, lkfmdc, Lost Oath, MasterKiller, Mutant, n00b, NJM, Oso, Ravenshaw, Rockwood, shuaichiao, Sifu Darkfist, SifuAbel, SiuHung, Sow Choy, sunfist, TenTigers, Ultimatewingchun, Vajramusti, WinterPalm, xcakid, xSHoX

Let's just say a lot of them probably don't go as hard as they think they do.

Is your clip supposed to be full contact?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwLFeIqjQ3Q

Yep.

[SifuAbel]

Let's just say a lot of them probably don't go as hard as they think they do.

Which ones?

[sanjuro_ronin]

Though I don't consider myself a CMA, I would like to add something for prosperity.

I have only been to 1 school in my area that did no sparring and 2 that did no "hard" contact, in terms of CMA that is.

I view the "degrees" of contact as such:

Sparring contact - what boxers do in the ring when they train
Hard contact - what boxers do in the ring when they compete
Full Contact - what boxers do when their ass is on the line.

Typically the majority of fighters Spar 80% of the time they "fight"maybe 90%, and do Hard contact ( competition) the remaining.
Unless you are a bouncer or something like that, the amount of real full contact as per the above is to minimal to count.

Sparring is going about 2/3 power, hard enough to hurt but not trying to KO.

Intent is the difference, and INTENsity.

[Knifefighter]

Which ones?

I guess the clips would let us see that, wouldn't they?

[Knifefighter]

Sparring contact - what boxers do in the ring when they train
Hard contact - what boxers do in the ring when they compete
Full Contact - what boxers do when their ass is on the line..

I'm guessing you've never trained in a boxing gym or done any kind of boxing competition.

[golden arhat]

i think a better name for this poll should be

"MAists do u fight with cma"

as opposed to cmaists do u fight