Originally Posted by
sanjuro_ronin
I wanted to focus on this part because we have discussed this before:
Yes, we see this a lot and the reason is this:
No one ever develops a style to fight against itself ( WC was not developed to fight against WC but other systems, Mantis the same, Hung Ga, the same and so forth).
The principles and structures of the style were not developed to be used against itself, but others.
So when a system is in a vac um and trained and fought against itself only, then those key principles and attributes end up being converted to be used against itself rather than others.
This isn't very noticeable with "natural methods" such as boxing But the more specialized ( more exotic) the system ( like SPM, Pm, Northern Mantis and so forth) the more disconnect in practice there is.
EX:
Imagine if the left hook works best against a right cross, it is developed to work against a right cross, all its principles are for VS a right cross BUT it is only trained Vs a left hook.
How good a left hook do you think it would be? how effective will it be when it does fave a right cross?