Who is the Bad Boy of KFM?

[SoCo KungFu]

the cross is where you end up after the leg is swept, meaning you go through. look at Judo's ashi-waza.

No the cross is the action that reaps or traps the leg. When it fails you have a compromised base and an opponent that is in a position of leverage.

[TenTigers]

No the cross is the action that reaps or traps the leg. When it fails you have a compromised base and an opponent that is in a position of leverage.

ok, but isn't that the same in any sweep or reaping action? Isn't that the same in any move, period? Sure, when they go wrong, you are in a vulnerable position. When anything goes wrong, you are in a vulnerable position. No ****.
Why is this any different?

[MasterKiller]

[uki]

wow... nevermind tyson... i don't want you to come to my house!!!

[Lokhopkuen]

Ironically, I got mine at a music festival. It was either Reggae Rising or Sierra Nevada World Music Festival last year. I got it from a booth - one of the Tibetan importers.

I've actually never worked Coachella, but I've had many friends work and play there. They all comment about the dust and lack of decent watering holes. You're the first friend I've heard from about this year's event, LHK (I've been laying low from working the music scene lately). How did the show go? Who was hot? Any acts steal the stage?

I got a chance to look out from back stage a couple of times to a sea of never ending heads but we spent most of the time backstage in an air conditioned tent. No mud, no dust just luxury chill.

Hey I'll be in the bay soon, we gotta do Indian again.

K

[Scott R. Brown]

Its like an osoto-gari. Beautiful (and devastating) when pulled off. But you can't just use it blindly. When you go for those type of throws, you become committed to its success. If it fails you've just given an open door access to your flank and its very difficult to set up with somebody trying throw throw knuckles in your face and not letting you just waltz up beside them.

Like I said, it can be done. But do you want to risk it? Judo guys can hang with a lot of grapplers, they're art is grappling and they do at least have some experience on the ground (in the event they succeed or even better, they fail). But would Joe Bagua fair so well? I'd put my money on no.

You really can't use anything blindly...all techniques have their place and their counters and there vulnerabilities. That is a large part of what defines someone as skilled; having the ability to execute the right technique at the right time that results in success as well as avoiding the wrong technique at the wrong time.

[David Jamieson]

yeesh, Lord and Lady Lardlington there....wow.

[Scott R. Brown]

yeesh, Lord and Lady Lardlington there....wow.

I wonder if they have syphilis?

[GeneChing]

I can never un-see that.

[dimethylsea]

Most of us have only a limited time to train due to life's responsibilities, therefore if one wish to prevail in fights it would behoove one to discard everything that is useless to that goal and focus on what works best MOST of the time.

While circle walking is indeed enjoyable, and may provide some other benefits, it is decidedly a poor use of time if one wishes to conserve time and maximize training efficiency!

Again I would have to point out.. it's been a LONG time since I was doing this primarily to prevail in fights.

I don't want to be the "chest-beater" that Tyson is.. but seriously.. to get really threatened I would have to go *looking* for someone (like a sport fighter or a senior martial artist from another style) or else seek out a violent street altercation.

When people talk about the "usefulness" of circle walking for fighting I usually ask them..
"Did you stop sleeping with your wife after you no longer wanted more children?"

If you didn't.. why.. what was the point?

Anyone with any emotional intelligence would look at that question like it was inane... and rightly so.

There is way more involved in circle walking that just being a spiralling circling combat nightmare.

[dimethylsea]

I can never un-see that.

Gene,

Your tears.... they sustain me

[BGZ BadBoy]

Scott..your so-called observations couldn't be further from the truth. You are clearly speaking from a novice's point of view when it comes to the Chinese internal martial arts, and more specifically, BaGuaZhang. The simple fact alone that you do not recognize the natural order and movement inherent in correct BaGuaZhang practice, as well as how the seemingly (at least in the eyes of an obvious novice) "unnatural" movements return us to our natural state (thus developing and releasing pure, natural, latent power), unquestionably demonstrates your complete and total lack of knowledge and understanding of the subject-matter at hand. My opinions are not solely based on what a handful of very accomplished martial artists have told me personally (namely Richard Wu, William Lee, and Erle Montaigue), but on my own experiential knowledge which obviously far exceeds that of your own at this point. It would seem that you have chosen to use this discussion as yet another pitiful attempt to discredit me, which, again, you have failed miserably at this point to do.
Each time you open your mouth you further prove my initial observation that, at least as far as BaGuaZhang is concerned, your level of understanding quite obviously remains at what can only be described as a clearly rudimentary and elementary level. Keep practicing, my friend..lol.

[SPJ]

which is easier to hold on to

your sword/weapon

or your wimmen

maybe neither

[Lucas]

they were made for each other...

[uki]

My opinions are not solely based on what a handful of very accomplished martial artists have told me personally (namely Richard Wu, William Lee, and Erle Montaigue), but on my own experiential knowledge which obviously far exceeds that of your own at this point. It would seem that you have chosen to use this discussion as yet another pitiful attempt to discredit me, which, again, you have failed miserably at this point to do.
Each time you open your mouth you further prove my initial observation that, at least as far as BaGuaZhang is concerned, your level of understanding quite obviously remains at what can only be described as a clearly rudimentary and elementary level. Keep practicing, my friend..lol.

wow. talk about being infantile.