Northern Mantis Groundfighting.

[Oso]

show some vids of yourselves performing genuwine NPM ground techniques while citing historical sources...furthermore, explain how what you are doing fits within any known codified method that we can all understand and relate to; such as: any 12 Keyword formula, the 8 hard or the 12 soft...something...anything that is widely known to be 'mantis'

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[Oso]

Aren't trolls little guys that live under a bridge?

no, they are usually well known posters with too much time on their hands...or possibly associate editors...and maybe Spam...or flan...but not bacon sammiches.

[Three Harmonies]

Welcome back bro! Where you been?
Porn?? I don't care to see you, but I am open to any female counterparts!!

Jake

[mantid1]

Someone mentioned earlier that any ground fighting in mantis would have been adopted from another source.....I would have to agree. But, being that mantis was not the first system developed by the first cave man.....most of the techniques in mantis would have to be "borrowed" from another style.

I doubt that BJJ was developed by the first cave man....so most of that had to be "borrowed" from somewhere.....same goes for Judo.

As for CMA not having its roots in the military.......I would have to think that if they spend so much time training with spears....kwan do....swords...that they would have had to spend some time on some type of hand to hand combat. I doubt they spent much time training on the ground.....wouldnt make any more sense then than it does now to train alot for ground fighting....in a combat situation that is.

I am surprised this is confusing to most.

[shirkers1]

I was just passing through, I stop in both forums here and there to check in on you guys but never post. Training to be a stalker... Or I was off my meds and decided to post.. lol Most of you know why I stopped posting. Too much drama


back to point, historically we all know that there is NO ground fighting in NPM. There is like others said fighting from the ground but nothing like what we know ground fighting to be in the modern area of combat. Nothing about engaging an opponent on the ground and staying there. Plenty of tactics to get you to the ground but that's where it ends. Which is why many have crossed trained with other combat arts to pick up those skills to deal with the "modern" combat artist.