I have to agree with you. I think the common factor is practice. The more you practice something the better it gets. Its like saying A boxer can't rock you to sleep with out boxing gloves on.
Mike Tyson had fights both in the ring and in the streets where no gloves were profided. I gurantee you a boxer punch is more lethal with out the gloves. I find people make excuses for thier own short comings. There are two parts to martial arts fighting...1.Finishing your opponent quickly, 2.Trading Techniques to increase your skill,ability,knowledge and experience.
I think its good to do some light sparring aka slap boxing where you utilize strickly WC principles and WC Techniques. But I also think its a good idea to put the gloves on an get some real energy thrown at you with out the damage an unpadded fist can do to you.
I gurantee you with some MMA gloves or Kempo Gloves you can still utilize the WC Techniques. The energy might need to be modified but its still WC. Actually sparring will look different than chi sau. Because you are not always with in bridging range, nor does your opponent comply with your sticky hand exercise. They move in and out, Move around, Circle, Feint and blah blah blah.
Besides that I find putting some gloves on an mixing it up a little to be quite fun!
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Wayfaring
People who seldom or never have worked against resisting opponents in an unrestricted movement setting tend to develop viewpoints about gloves such that they think they change the game, no longer a realistic fight, it messes up their WC, etc. They are deluded.
Gloves are there so you can learn to hit harder and learn to fight while being hit harder. If you can't ko someone or hit hard enough to end a fight with gloves there is nothing magical that is going to make you be able to do it without gloves in a street scenario.
But people basically slap box and/or compliant chi sau with little to no strikes and think that will adequately prepare them for a real fight. Hint. It won't. If you are in a real fight against someone who has prepared for it by hitting hard and being hit hard, then you're not going to be prepared.
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Wayfaring
Why don't you spell it out? Are you slamming me here? Yoshiyahu? Or just being a general douche?
How did my name get mixxed up here...what is going on...Please share with me?
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