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    What TCMA skills/techniques can we just do away with?

    What have you completely thrown out of your catalog?
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    honestly - Lion Dancing.

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    Any technique done in contemporary wushu. Anything to do with hitting pressure points or dim mak. Any technique claiming to stop the heart, cause internal bleeding or shatter bone into a million pieces.
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    Techniques we can do away with:

    The techniques that leave the arm extended after a punch.

    5-hit combos that you perform on your opponent while is arm his extended after a punch.
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    I have personally done away with using any form of striking stationary stakes like they do in ba gua or like when Jet Li was hitting all those balls away doing tai chi. I have done away with using any form of wooden dummy because practicing your footwork on something stationary is pointless when your opponents move around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RWilson View Post
    I have personally done away with using any form of striking stationary stakes like they do in ba gua or like when Jet Li was hitting all those balls away doing tai chi. I have done away with using any form of wooden dummy because practicing your footwork on something stationary is pointless when your opponents move around.
    Well, hitting a stationary object like a makiwara or a post like they do in baji, has more to do with "forging" than "footwork".
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    honestly - Lion Dancing.
    why did you give up lion dancing?
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    Quote Originally Posted by sanjuro_ronin View Post
    Well, hitting a stationary object like a makiwara or a post like they do in baji, has more to do with "forging" than "footwork".
    Very true. I was talking about from a footwork point of view and not a conditioning one.

    I was told once that you strike a bunch of posts and keep moving because this symbolizes fighting multiple opponents. This is the kind of stuff I get rid of in my training. If you say it makes your hands harder fine but do not say this will prepare you in case of a massive jailbreak.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MasterKiller View Post
    What have you completely thrown out of your catalog?
    anything where the hand goes to far above the head and jumps...i practice xing yi, and in the dragon movement there is a jump...i got rid of it..

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    Quote Originally Posted by RWilson View Post
    Very true. I was talking about from a footwork point of view and not a conditioning one.

    I was told once that you strike a bunch of posts and keep moving because this symbolizes fighting multiple opponents. This is the kind of stuff I get rid of in my training. If you say it makes your hands harder fine but do not say this will prepare you in case of a massive jailbreak.
    Ah, thank you, understood.
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    There is a technique I was taught, a circular scissors like block followed with an upward swing under the armpit, kinda like chyun pow, but instead of uppper cut at the end was more of an upward swinging forearm/longarm, that, for one application, was intended to disrupt/dislocate another person's shoulder. It seems like it could never work to me, at least with any practical efficiency. Although I practice the movement in form, I have more or less thrown that out of anything I want to draw from.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hskwarrior View Post
    why did you give up lion dancing?
    haven't - I find it fun, so I do it when I can. I'm one of the few that do MA to have fun. But, if you're looking for something to cut out for a pure MA experience... it'd probably be Lion Dancing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MightyB View Post
    honestly - Lion Dancing.
    we got more real fight experience from lion dancing downtown on chinese new years against other schools than we got all year at cr@ppy tournaments
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    I think I can live without the butterfly kick.
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