Originally Posted by
lkfmdc
you need to constantly test your stuff
if you are content with where you are now, you are actually moving backward
if you are content because in the past someone did something, well, it really means nothing
"MMA" is this incarnation of the cycle, but think back to the 60's when a bunch of Americans said "point sux" and created kickboxing, only to discover that Muay Thai is reall kickboxing.
Heck, go back to Maeda and the other Kodokan challenges, heck to the police college matches where PEOPLE DIED
in TCMA go back to the days of Lei Tai, when you had to put up or shut up. But that was over 100 years ago really
Everything most "evolve", it must grow.
EX:
Having been exposed to kali I know do not teach any blocks that expose the inner part of the arm to possible knife cuts, which was something that never occured to me until I was exposed to Kali.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !