Yeah that and by all means, don't step on anyones new white sneakers or you may get shot
Yeah that and by all means, don't step on anyones new white sneakers or you may get shot
EarthDragon posted a vid of himself piercing a watermelon with his fingers. To me he has the right idea and this has nothing to do with competition. Why? Because a lot of TCMA styles have eye pokes - which in theory work great. Unfortunately we live in the real world. And in the real world, actions have consequences. Now I know that most people who gravitate to something like TCMA aren't exactly athletic, so they might not understand this... but, have you ever had someone throw you a basketball and you jam your fingers on it with the catch? Your fingers swell and hurt and you'll have a hard time making a fist. Well, let's go back to the eye poke and ED's video. See, people's heads do an amazing thing - they move. So what if you were in a life and death situation and you go to do an eye strike and your aim is off and you bounce your finger tips off of the guy's forehead? OUCH - major jamming if you're not conditioned like ED. Your hand swells and you can't make a fist or grasp. In other words, you're f**ked.
Fighting isn't easy - train seriously.
To develop some useful skills in your life time has nothing to do with competation.
I have always suggested my guys to spend more time to develop their "foot sweep". You will have more chance to use your "foot sweep" than to use your hip throw. As long as your opponent stands with one leg forward and one leg backward, you will have 180 degree to work with. Since timing is important for foot sweep, it's much harder to develop it than to develop hip throw.
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Last edited by MasterKiller; 11-17-2012 at 08:36 AM.
I didn't want to get in the middle of it, but I also can't have people fighting in my parking lot - so I had to step in to diffuse the situation. It was very out of character for that chef to be acting that way, so I plan on talking to him next time I see him when he has a cooler head to find out what was really going on that day. I told my employee the same thing because I don't want him to have hard feelings out of what probably is a minor misunderstanding.
Sometimes I think you're on crack - competency and mastery are one in the same. And you will never get competency if you think fighting is easy and can be discounted as such. I thought you wrestled or did MMA or some sh*t with your long fist so you should have some familiarity with a simple move such as a Kimura. Simple on paper, simple in theory, now try to apply it on someone who's fighting back even in friendly but competitive sparring. "It's a whole different beast", but that's how you get competency. And you never lose that competency even in old age because you'll just learn ways to be more efficient over time.
I'm probably not expressing myself correctly so I'll leave it at this:
Don't say fighting is easy because it's not. There wouldn't be a need for any martial arts if it was easy.
Last edited by MightyB; 11-17-2012 at 10:11 AM.
This thread is all over the place, but often have I have also said fighting is easy, only in my way of saying ego over confidence ****ness and any jerk with too many a beer and 2 fists can fight this is animal instinct and natural to defend oneself, "hence fighting is easy"
The ability to fight well, controlled, smooth, effortless without panic and efficient..... that is our goal, to end a life threatening circumstance quickly and get out. otherwise fighting is easy. skill in fighting is a life long training lesson.
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Wu style Taiji Chuan
Teacher always told his students, "You need to have Wude, patient, tolerance, humble, ..." When he died, his last words to his students was, "Remember that the true meaning of TCMA is fierce, poison, and kill."
A little of both leaning more to the incompetent side but working on it. Unlike you, you're just a douche
Earth Dragon expressed what I've been trying to say very well:
The ability to fight well, controlled, smooth, effortless without panic and efficient..... that is our goal, to end a life threatening circumstance quickly and get out. otherwise fighting is easy. skill in fighting is a life long training lesson.
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This is the exact thing I have been preacging for a while now. Anyone can brawl or street fight:
These primal / instinctive / natural moves are in our genetic make up. Learning a stylized system is hard.
MY OPINION is that modern mma is more primal or instinctive and less of a stylized system. Not that either are more or less effective in sport combat, but that a system is harder to learn and apply in combat, but better overall for street wise self defense.
I have been trying to get this point across to everyone to no avail. Arrrghh
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KUNG FU USA
www.eightstepkungfu.com
Teaching traditional Ba Bu Tang Lang (Eight Step Praying Mantis)
Jin Gon Tzu Li Gung (Medical) Qigong
Wu style Taiji Chuan
Teacher always told his students, "You need to have Wude, patient, tolerance, humble, ..." When he died, his last words to his students was, "Remember that the true meaning of TCMA is fierce, poison, and kill."