Wrong Terence... as mentioned your chasing your ideas of what YOU can make of it. YOU can only make it function by adopting an attached idea. Its called controlling hands that will hit you if you stop sticking to them
I can see what your missing from your posts. Its up to you to open doors, guys arent going to open them for you. Just because you as a teacher have a dvd series and books proclaiming otherwise still wont change the facts
your marketing YOUR idea, let it be, dont try to ram it down our throats,
sparring will show it in a few seconds...while you try to 'attach' yourself.
its called arm chasing and can be explained hands on really quick as you get hit. Using a 'rolling bong' or a lop also shows your low level of understanding.
yes we use parries ...to displace bridges for the fractions of a second we combine our parries strikes and movement....we want to prevent the opponent from making 'attachments' .....they can use feeling against us, if we displace them and make them lose contact we can strike ..our thinking is to make relentless pressure from attacks further causing them to try to stop our hands by making 'attachments'...only we dont let them. its like letting go of a rope you hold out for someone to use all their force against , then suddenly letting go, moving it, angling away so the holder of the rope is no longer facing where they directed their force ....the drills develop this ...but you wont develop if you have only been shown square on facing stages of the drills with 2 arms extended...we dont fight with 2 arms extended as the drills.
it relies on the scientific approach to using 3 things at once to make one sound..momentum, timing, structure all come into play as we attack. So we focus on fighting resisting opponents who offer arms to stop our entry ..we dont seek to stick or control the arms for any other reason.
By attaching your self you lose the dynamics of motion, momentum and strikes that may or may not be coupled with sharp displacing energy, all in the ONE moment of the timing ...using the momentum of motion coupled with the sharp displacing ballistic force of a pak or a bong. Coupling structure of the hips generating force to coincide with the elbows we develop this ability to make explosive small movements that are very difficult to deal with.
ballistic force generated to a point of contact to remove 'attachments' open a small hole to strike into. We only need small openings.
We do use controlling actions as a last resort in Bil Gee, when we have to regain things the opponent has stopped us doing..but this is an idea that we use to 'regain' the fighting 'bubble, so to speak.
The skill of the system is being able to show this ability in close quarters without regressing to trying to hold the opponents hands.
VT is attacking with mobility and aggressiveness as you put the opponent under pressure of sustained attacking or having the ability to make counter moves that are attacking ...iow defensive actions that all incorporate an attacking action.
this is taught at the early stages in dan chi sao...and not to roll with the bong feeling energy carp.
We train to maintain our fighting distances intuitively so we can generate KO force as you come we stay in our striking distances but have to angle to a flank to avoid facing you square on as we do drills...
the system is taught in abstract methods to develop certain traits..sadly those who dont understand this try to make the abstract forms, drills, dummy, the 'way'...