As Garry has rightly stated if you look at pak mei in this way there arnt many techniques that actually qualify as truly six points, making the style narrow in focus, But again what is pak mei trying to achieve? Quick aggressive incapacitation so how many six points of power techniques do you need?
Obviously garry's journy has found a different path, im happy with pak mei.
You have miss read/understood what sifu has said. If you don't use your body in striking for example you are simply arm punching and every martial art out there including sport martial arts would tell you that is wrong and ineffective in terms of power and in terms of opening yourself up to be hit. So are sport martial artists when they are using the whole body to punch and teach that arm punching is bad teaching external or internal?
I think that perhaps our forms may be different to yours. Being in cat using double butterfly palms such as in day sut you still drive off the rear leg, turn your waist, use the back, extend through the shoulders, open the elbows, and pull your fingers back using the wrist in the palming motion to release the power into the strike.
For the scissor leg take down you still have to drive into the leap with the legs, use the waist and the torso to aid the legs in the scissor mortion. We have trained this on heavy bags and you flip them through the air.
By that sort of thinking any sort of kicks would not use the whole body. What about the kick behind the leg in gau bo toi or sub baat mor kuil?
I'm not sure what you mean by a hopping kick?
My question about sparing was just a simple question. Nothing more. Its a disscussion. I was just interested to know how you train.
I never claimed anything about pure bak mei you came up with that on your own. Please don't miss read. In the context of my questions the word "pure" and "essance" are interchangeable. Where using only the essence of bak mei is using pure bak mei i.e just bak mei and its theories or principles. You see?
Regarding 1-2-3 and finished - what happens if this doesn't work? What then? If you are only prepared to throw 3 strikes with the first probably being your set up then you may find the person isn't taken out and you have missed your opportunity. Better to throw 10 strikes and overwelm the person and keep going untill they go down and stay down.
Anybody that knows me knows I never imply anything. I say what I mean. There is nothing to be read into my words. They are simply what they are. I'm not pushing some hidden meaning waiting for you to slip up so i can say "Ah har! There you see I'm right!" I'm just trying to discuss martial arts and get other perspectives rather than going through my life with blinkers on ignoring the infinate possibilities that exist.
Cheers
My intent is to kill you, my heart wants you dead, my mind thinks of you dead, when I strike its to kill you - Sifu.
You are only as strong as your horse - Sigung Leung Cheung.