The issue isn't similarity or dissimilarlity -- comparisons will always produce similarities. The issue is: are you doing what (the movement) you learn and train to do when you fight? If you learn/train movement X (WCK) but then do movement Y when you fight, you're not using your training.
That's what they all say -- I'm doing things differently than I learn/train but I'm still doing it!When i saprr in a ring, you see a more mobile horse and a less obvious Bi Jong pose or guard if you will, from say Gor Sau ... but its still VT.
Gloves don't prevent or limit you from using WCK punches. You are essentially saying that you throw out WCK movement for boxing movement but are still doing WCK. No, you're not. Once you stop using WCK movement, you stop using WCK and you stop using your WCK training.Youd see rounder punches because of the space i need with 16oz gloves.
A lack of several habbit actions wouldnt come out, like elbows and stomps...so i counter that with using more round punches like hooks etc.
It "looks" like boxing because you are using boxing movement (technique). And if you don't train boxing, then you are most likely using the movement poorly. You've thrown out your WCK for something else that you don't train.You can say it looks like im boxing but in fact i create round punches in a different way to boxing. Im not widening my elbow away from my body... my turning body creates the round shape still adhering to techniques in my VT.
It snaps in a different way and takes a differnt path but "looks" similar cause its still a punch dam it LOL
If you were using WCK "technique" it would look like WCK. You can't use WCK technique and have it not look like WCK. We all do turning punches in WCK and they look like turning punches, not boxing punches.
If you're fighting on the outside and "parrying" jabs and crosses (where do people come up with these ideas?), you're kickboxing.You would see habbit actions like Tan to open space for my punch, if anything it is more pronounced as my punch requires more space with a glove on.
Youd see me Parry (Pak) actions like jabs and even crosses.
In other words, you're using the same movements as the kickboxers but you may see "elements" of WCK -- well, that's exactly what all "WCK kickboxers" do: they mainly kickbox using nonWCK movement and occassionally try and perform a WCK movement (a "parrying" pak sao, for example) here and there.Youd see me bong Guarn or Gum kicks.
I use front kicks like my Kickboxer sparring partners but my touch point is differnt and i raise the action differnt, my body support is differnt but to a lamen it looks similar......so i feel you should see elements of VT not something totally foreign to other fighting arts...
Imagine a boxer saying when I spar, what I do doesn't really look like what I have learned or train to do (in terms of movement) but I do occassionally throw in a boxing movement -- and I don't have a problem with that, after all, it is only when you don't see anything that resembles boxing movement that you've got a problem.Its when you see nothing that resembles VT then theres a problem.
DREW