Re: Re: Re: Re: Skill
Originally posted by SiuHung
1) Anyone can train as much as they want to. It's the individual. Are you saying that in the past people didn't have jobs and families?
It's not so much an issue of time as it is how time is spent. They didn't have all of the distractions that we had, and also had a different attitude. However, time may have been a factor, considering the power of money these days. I usually train 2-3 hours a day, at least. I bet there were several people back in the day who put in more time than that.
6) More stylistic hero worhsip. Any fighting system...my bias being for CMA, can produce a great fighter. But it is the individual more so than even the teacher who will determine just how good of a fighter they become... But to suggest that Jook Lum has some "edge" over other systems is to dive into the kind of style-centric garbage that promotes silly internet forum debates over who's better than who. Quite simply go to any school and you will here the same "our style has blah blah advantages over others...". Are you saying that Jook Lum is that much better than other systems? If you are, I'm sure that there are plenty of CMA practitoners out there that would be glad to debate that with you, not to mention the MMA crowd.
Mike
It's not necessarily style-centric. There are arts that produce competent fighters than others. It's more of an issue of training methods though, not the style itself...
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