This looks alot like what the chow gar guys do in their drills... if I had seen it in a class and not an MMA match that is exactly what I would have said.
Wing chun? Nah.. the foot work is all wrong and the hands don't really follow the 'principles' ;' )
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I started my "1 step 3 punches" training when I was 11 years old. After my Lohan teacher (my brother in law) found out that I liked to fight (I was a bad boy), he forced me to drill "1 step 3 punches" for 3 years.
The TCMA has:
- 1 step 3 punches (Tantui #5),
- 1 step 2 punches (little Baji),
- 1 step 1 punch (Mai Fu Chuan),
- 2 steps 1 punch (Tantui #10), and
- 3 steps 1 punch (3rd road Pao Chuan).
Last edited by YouKnowWho; 11-29-2011 at 07:46 PM.
We actually make the students run and do sprints while throwing their punches and/or kicks. From one end of the basketball court to the other.
Belfort got the job done, but his footwork was a little stiff and awkward. He had a lot of muscle, and didn't use a lot of body torque on his punches. Which was fine since they weren't finishing strikes, but more for speed to overrun Silva. More squared up allowed him to bring up both hands equally quickly for attack and if necessary for counter in case something came back at him.
From TCMA training perspective, we make the student run more smoothly so they have more leg drive, more quad flex and not so wide and stiff leg like in the video. And especially more torso turn for power. We push the range of motion because when under pressure, people tend to tighten up and cut their motions short.
Still, it's all basically alternating footwork reverse punch.
That explains it. I had heard of Matt Thornton before but I didn't know he had JKD roots.
There was no JKD in what we did other than the basic idea of Bruce Lee that says to absorb what is useful and disregard the rest. SBGi was a collection of stuff that was useful (crazy monkey, boxing, Muay Thai, BJJ, various wrestling stuff).
I guess he took the name (Straight Blast) from his old style?
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actually matt was a well known boxer (sparring partner to lewis at one time i believe) who pretty much dropped all the jkd and wing chun stuff if he ever did it, kept te name probably for marketing reasons, but thats about it
he ;eft JKD for the same reasons he bags on TCMA......
Last edited by Frost; 11-30-2011 at 03:40 AM.
Depends on the coach a number of boxing coaches teach the elbow down especially when teaching for MMA
It might look like a lot of things, but his only striking training comes from boxing so I think we can safely say that’s where he got the idea from
this clip has been brought up before and then as now the point should be, if a fighter can demonstrate what people regard as TCMA principles without ever following those principles training methods, and we cant actually find clips of TCMA doing those principles in a similar full contact event, maybe the question should be why aren’t we training the same way as this guy if he it at the end goal we want to achieve?
Last edited by Frost; 11-30-2011 at 02:11 AM.
Yep I said it, and I said it because I dislike people pointing to clips of fighters not from TCMA doing TCMA principles in fights as if that valids how they train….. why not simply most clips of yourself, your students or your style doing the same thing because that would validate both the principleas and the training methods you use
Is it because because the clips don’t exist, or because you cant be bothered to show it because its not that big a deal to you (that’s a general you not aimed at TT)
Because if it’s the latter why constantly post about it if it doesn’t matter, if it’s the former then maybe you should look at the way you are training if its not producing the results you see in the clip