AWESOME You Tube find SC clips galore!

[Merryprankster]

Somebody may have already posted these, but I figured I'd post these.

This guy posted some great stuff

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ashwix

[Water Dragon]

So what thoughts do you have after seeing those clips, Merry?

[Merryprankster]

1. I'm as impressed with SC as I have always been.
2. Good grappling looks a lot alike the world over - all of this is recognizable to me.
3. That "common language" so to speak, makes it intelligible to me. That is, if I see something that I think is a bit unusual, I can at least understand what I am looking at.

Importantly, I think it shows the difference between people who can grapple and people who THINK they know what that entails. SC people (provided, like anybody else, they train properly) know how to grapple. If you're a CMAist and hard over about doing Chinese styles, and have no other grappling, go learn some SC because I'm 90% certain that if you don't have it in your background, you only think you know about grappling...

[David Jamieson]

sc is cool.

I'd like to see more of it that doesn't involve using the clothes to get the leverage.

no gi so to speak.

all the sc ive seen in comps and on clips involves extensive use of grabbing the clothes to set the hooks.

I kinda gravitate more to a GR way of setting the hooks into joints and voids (armpits, back of joints, natural impressions)

for using clothes, the kungfu i learned has that as well.

[Faruq]

You mean they have Judo in Beijing now? LOL! No way! I wonder if the Japanese have training tools like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3eb740pyiE

[YouKnowWho]

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ashwix

He had just demostrated the following principles in a single move:

- Timing (when to execute your move),
- Opportunate (how to recognize an opportunate),
- Angle (which angle to apply your move),
- Force (How to generate your force),
- Balance (how to maintain your own balance).

As far as the SC jacket, it serves 2 purpose:

- Force your opponent to fight (it's hard for him to run away if you grab him), and
- Protect your opponent when he fell (you can pull him when you throw him so his head won't hit the ground).

You can consider the jacket throwing as "winter ski slop combat skill" and no jacket throwing as "summer sand beach combat skill". Both has it's value.

How to create a chance to get a hold like this without being kicked or punched by your opponnent is not shown in this clip. That the difference between traditional SC and combat SC.

[Merryprankster]

I wonder if the Japanese have training tools like this:

I know that bands and straps, such as the one in this picture, are used quite often.

Dunno about the weighted pole bit though.