Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
It's funny how people think by not questioning anything means they'll get anywhere. Good luck with that!
I don't give a flying **** about you asking stupid questions, you must be very slow if all you can ask are stupid questions. When I train with people, I ask about things that I need clarification on because I'm in a bind about what I am working on, or I need help on my positioning.
Again, good luck on getting far without questioning anything! *******!
So I'm unlucky today.. two will die for the price of one!
Mantiskickboxer & Fa Xing,
Take your rude comments to private messages! We don't tolerate this behavior in the Praying Mantis forum like they do the other forums.
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There are two types of Chinese martial artists. Those who can fight and those who should be teaching dance or yoga!
53 years of training, 43 years of teaching and still aiming for perfection!
Recovering Forms Junkie! Even my twelve step program has four roads!
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There are two types of Chinese martial artists. Those who can fight and those who should be teaching dance or yoga!
53 years of training, 43 years of teaching and still aiming for perfection!
Recovering Forms Junkie! Even my twelve step program has four roads!
Nah.
That TCMA is full of stories of hard training ( stories of teachers that hurt their students for example) and challenge matches shows that, at least int he past, fighting was important.
Training dummies were NOT a substitute for fighting, they were conditioning devices.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
tell that to the wing chun crowd lol,
I know what you mean but the number of clubs where people spend the majority of class timw doing line drills, forms, stance training and dummy work are legion...where as the number who spend the majority of class hitting each other (not just application work but free sparring) .....well those places are hard to find...
The point of the WD is so that when you can't train with a partner, you can at least develop the attributes you need to fight.
In the case of the WD:
Structure
Conditioning
Contact
and so forth.
It doesn't hit you back you you can't work on evasion and defense.
Like a punching bag, it is "beating up on an opponent that is covering up" at best.
You can make it more alive by NOT following a set sequence and by "fighting" it as you would a real opponent ( intent wise) BUT in the grande scheme of things it is and always has been a conditioning tool.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
I'll use a dummy for "reference". In another thread, I mentioned to draw a line on the ground as the reference point of my opponent's feet position. The dummy's arms and leg are much better reference point than just a line on the ground.
In the following clip, you can even use a belt as "reference" for your opponent's leg. The nice thing about this is you can train on your belt 24/7.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzUxOTYwMDY4.html
Last edited by YouKnowWho; 10-18-2013 at 02:51 PM.
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