Quote Originally Posted by Knifefighter View Post
Actually, that's more common among people who have only trained in their training facilities and have never truly the adrenaline dump of a real fight. Full contact competitions give you a close approximation of that dump, which means you will be less likely to forget about what you have trained.
Excellent point about adrenaline dump in a real fight. I think that a lot of techniques in WC/VT/WT are valid and will work in such an adrenaline dump but the students never test them so it just plain ol' rage when they get into a fight.

Then again i see a lot of crap out there that I think hasn't been tested at all, but looks pretty in chi sao

You show me a system that can guarantee I won't get cut in a knife fight. How about one that even will give me a "high" percentage of not getting cut.
Dont the dogbrothers have a saying "Die a little less" for a reason? Hey, Knifefighter, you know of anyone in the NYC/CT area you'd recommend that has a similar mindset?

-taojkd