Quote Originally Posted by sanjuro_ronin View Post
Which is one of the reason why some have a hard time "translating" their art into their practical ( and those that do have some practical in their background already).
I remember my SPM teacher saying to me (when he found out I had boxing and kyokushin in my background), "Good, you are ahead of the curve, you understand fighting already".
no argument from me, you know i think its better to have a sports background going into these arts

My Sifus teacher came from a hung gar and CLF background (where they fought alot) into the hakka arts, and he always felt those in the short hand stuff that didn’t come from a fighting background paid too much attention to the esoteric in the arts and made them too complicated