Originally Posted by
tattooedmonk
Jakes only real problem, beside the ego, is the way he does his chinese martial arts , it just doesnt have that flow , its hard and chopy. He looks like a combination of SKT and DS doing his forms. you can definately see who he modeled himself after.
make no mistake, though he is talented and has considerable skills. I would like to help him straighten some of it out if I could.
and that goes out to all CS/ SD students. I went to three centers on a road trip recently and couldnt believe what I saw. it was sad . I feel sorry for those instructors out in the middle of no where without any real resources. other than SHS and DS. they are totally disconnected from reality.
its amazing what you can learn from the people that actually know CMA. Just saying.
What can be expected, though, if that's all the martial arts experience they have had? Jake started CSC when he was a teenager, so of course SKT and DS are his role models. Maybe he thinks he's too far down the rabbit hole now to accept training from another source. I was lucky that CSC was not my first serious exposure to martial arts training, and after leaving I had no problem learning from other sources. So much can be improved and corrected on the CSC material even by just reading the treatises of past and current experts of Chinese martial arts, and watching videos. How much more can be gained by finding another teacher, even just to correct the basics.
With the internet, it is much more easy to connect with "reality", though it is also easier to get deeper into a fantasy world. But more information available isn't a bad thing, in this case.
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