Originally Posted by
anerlich
TWC requires forms, including the dummy, and chi sao.
You could have an art with similar techniques and tactics, but IMO you should call it something else.
The view of the "self-appointed WC-realism intelligentsia" seems to be that the range in which chi sao is performed, "trapping range", is artificial and contrived, and in "real fights" appears only for split seconds, before either collapse through into clinch range, or break apart again. For this reason, the techniques you practice from here are allegedly a waste of time as the opportunity to employ them hardly ever appears in real fighting.
Hand fighting and grip fighting as wrestling drills are IMO more like chi sao than pummelling.
Not all wrestlers regard pummelling as valuable, same as not all WCers like chi sao ... apparently.
Interesting, thanks.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !