I want to mee the cat who studied kung fu for a thousand years. I bet he has one hell of a supplement program to be that old.He may have studied KF for 1000 years but since he took two weeks of BJJ it doesn't count
Ginseng, all he takes is Ginseng!!
Those that are the most sucessful are also the biggest failures. The difference between them and the rest of the failures is they keep getting up over and over again, until they finally succeed.
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i'm nobody...i'm nobody. i'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo... a boxcar and a jug of wine... but i'm a straight razor if you get to close to me.
-Charles Manson
I will punch, kick, choke, throw or joint manipulate any nationality equally without predjudice.
- Shonie Carter
i'm nobody...i'm nobody. i'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo... a boxcar and a jug of wine... but i'm a straight razor if you get to close to me.
-Charles Manson
I will punch, kick, choke, throw or joint manipulate any nationality equally without predjudice.
- Shonie Carter
I don't buy that. I think it is just a matter of time before you start seeing good CMA in MMA. It's going to happen slowly, but it will happen.
If you think about it, CMA needs to do 2 things, invert the amount of time spent on forms with two man work and Sparr more, and work thier anti takedown skills more.
That is all that is needed, everythig else is there. We got striking, Kicking joint manipulations, throwing, ground and pound, it's all there. It just needs to be unzipped and worked.
We even have our own venues to hone skills in prior to entering the MMA venues.
Those that are the most sucessful are also the biggest failures. The difference between them and the rest of the failures is they keep getting up over and over again, until they finally succeed.
For the Women:
+ = & a
I don'tthink yoou need to get rid of forms all together...although originally forms were only for the trainers to organise a curriculem. Also were more ment to maintian skills than develop them in the first place.
Kung Fu has grapeling, and throwing, just not the ground stufff like BJJ.
Those that are the most sucessful are also the biggest failures. The difference between them and the rest of the failures is they keep getting up over and over again, until they finally succeed.
For the Women:
+ = & a
I agree that forms won't get you anywhere as far as learning to fight
I agree you need to learn ground fighting
But let's stop to discuss "anti grappling" for a minute
Teh term comes from "Kahm Na" (translated often as grappling) and "FAAN Kahm Na" (which is thus translated as "anti grappling")
The "FAAN" means to reverse or counter. Sure, mired in mysticism and BS it becomes all so much crap
In practical application, much of it is standard grappling fare
1. hand fighting
2. pummeling
3. hip movement
4. level control
5. snap downs
IE, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
i think all CMA would bbenefit if sparring was done san da style with smaller gloves
u are right we have alot of good stuff here and we are too caught up in forms and technicalities if we trained harder and more realisticly alot of the applications might end up working outside of the kwoon
basically everything we think we know in cma should be stripped apart and put back together again to make it more relevant
(a good example would be alan orr's wing chun club here in the uk what e did woas take mma takedowns etc and take most of the boxing away replacing it with wing chun)
we need to take the application 2 man sets with a pinch of salt also
i think we kid ourselves too much when it comes to them
so yeah
thats how i think cma could have a real future as a "martial" art
otherwise its doomed
There is no such thing as anti-grappling.
Form work is a tool. Like any tool, its used for a purpose. Getting rid of it, or not, is a moot point.
Because:
What CMA REALLYneeds is people who are not 3 hour a week hobbyists to do it seriously enough to compete. If its not your "job" or even a second "job" then don't expect to be effective.
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Wow rudy, that has to be the most honest example of cma I have ever heard and also at the same time the most ****ing.If its not your "job" or even a second "job" then don't expect to be effective
If you find that to be the case, why on anyone's count, would anyone ever, in a million years, ever bother wasting time on something that is so a$$backwards that you have to make it your "job" to be effective in self defense.