First, 98% of your entire post is Horesh#t;You are a goju ryu practitioner and have no idea what you're looking at or how to apply it. Before that video was filmed I had already pressure tested my material and instructed three different instructor level Goju practitioners. One who had a big school,and had been around for 30+ years. I'd be willing to put money on it that I could not only best you, but your teacher.Your notes would be academic, how about a video critique? Demonstrate you aren't talking out your *** and can actually apply my methods sufficiently enough for comparison??? If you can't do so, you are just mouth-boxing. As far as I'm concerned your the peanut gallery.
Although I said I was out of the original discussion, I have to come back in with this clip in case anyone with less experience than you thinks it is good technique. I made three pages of notes while I was watching this clip but I won't bore everyone with all of it.
Like, I said, before you go giving B.S advice to noobs, how about you demonstrate you are even capable of making that comparison? How about you post your material, I will rip it apart via video and a partner. You have 3 years of experience in your chosen art, this is laughable. :BSmeter:
Firstly there was conflicting advice. Initially you were walking straight into the attacker, then two minutes later you are saying you should move to the side. The way you demonstrated moving in would result in physically clashing.
Of course getting off the line is crucial. But what is also being taught is to keep one's structure in the face of attack. The beginner will have more trouble getting off the line the first day, and one can't rely on that saving them, structure should be good enough to hold up to a collision with someone else.
Fine if you are bigger and heavier, but not suitable if you are facing a bigger attacker.
Actually if you will note the first guy in the video was significantly bigger than I, he is a power-lifter, and fitness trainer - a retired Senior NCO. He could bench press 450 pounds at the time. Eddie could come at me full speed at force, and I could stop him dead in his tracks - I would'nt in real-life-but its a good structure test and tool. I have also done the same with bigger guys - probably 300 pounds is the largest. here are his words---
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The other flaw in the video is that the attacker is not attacking with intent. He is standing there allowing you to do what you like to him. When you moved to the side I liked it when you demonstrated not stepping away, but when you demonstrated the 'right' way your attacker wasn't moved off his line at all.
I agree that the attacker is not attacking with more intent, pre red-man suit days, it was hard to get them to come at me with alot of power. However, this is a beginner video-not a demonstration, although now near the end I would probably put more intent / realism into it with more gear and dynamic scenario drills, this will be in later volumes.
It was probably a mistake not getting off the line on the other occasion, or I was highlighting something else, I would have to look back..
Then you spoke of peripheral vision. Fantastic. Peripheral vision is critical, but then you said, "look over his shoulder". That is not peripheral vision. That is just not looking at your attacker's hands or face or what ever.
I never look directly at the attacker hands in real training, or face, that is ridiculous-more words your putting in my mouth and assumptions. You can look over the shoulder and still have much of his body in your peripheral - It is a drilled method, and the peripheral IS used, I'm sorry if you cannot do so, but perhaps you are confused. I do it a bit differently now, a little neurophysiology goes a long way.
Then we get to your development of power by pushing with the back foot flat on the floor and turning from the waist without lifting the back heel off the floor. Locking the body like that only allows about 50% of power to be delivered.
The foot cannot possibly be "flat" on the floor, unless one is flatfooted. The mechanics drill is highlighting really the turning of the knee/waist/arm, etc in concert to create a link. Driving from the heel allow the power / connection to develop turning better on that pivot point. Outside of the drill the whole foot is used and weight can roll forward as you move forward - it is done later in the video, but since I mostly drag the foot to keep ground connection the power link is more subtle - again you have no real reference for this training. I assure you I can probably demonstrate 150-200% of power compared to your goju methods.
This came up again later when you were discussing 'linking'. I can now understand why you said in a previous post that your front punch was more powerful than a reverse strike. Using your linking system you would be lucky to deliver even half the available power of a properly executed reverse strike.
Again, you are simply wrong. You making assumptions from the other side of the globe. You also have not seen/felt me actually HIT much of anything very hard. As I said my method (the IMA method) can punch much harder than any reverse punch - I can even do so from the front hand or back.
Now we come to your fighting stance. You would get your head knocked off in all but a sporting contest.
I have done sporting contests, I have bounced at nightclubs, I have saved my own life with my material, and have put my stance against more pressure than you or your teacher likely ever have. I could care less about a "sporting contest" I like to stay in reality, I'm not much of a martial sport guy, I like the martial. Again you are plainly wrong.
Earlier you said the chin should be pulled in but in you demo you had it stuck out asking to be hit. And, you don't tuck your chin in by tilting your head forward. That compromises your centre. You tuck your chin by lifting the crown of your head.
True, I agree I did tend to lead with my head-it is a posture issue, I also have some scoliosis, and lower back problems from Iraq. Your preaching to the choir with lifting the crown etc, but I could/can hold my center just fine thanks.
Then your stance was too far from your ribs. Apart from the inherent physical weakness of your upper body, your ribs are just asking to be hit. I don't like kicking that high but even I could do serious damage to anyone who offered such an unprotected target.
I disagree, and my experience proves you to be false. The arms are out from the ribs because the arms are in a significantly better structural position to absorb/redirect an attack - and produce power. But as you demonstrated before by not fathoming me being able to stop an attacker much larger in his tracks (not the best idea of course) - you have demonstrated you are ignorant to the "why" and "how" behind my arm position, and that you and your teachers are incapable of that level of skill. You are way out of your depth I promise you.
You then said that you put most or even all you weight on the back foot. That's just plain wrong. A good fighting stance will have pretty much even weight distribution that will allow quick movement in any direction. If you're on your back foot and an attacker pushes in, you have nowhere to go.
This quote just displays your ignorance, your lack of skill, and your inexperience. A fighting "stance" is a dynamic thing that can be explosively and instantly changed. (this was not in the video). The weight is on the back foot because 99% of the time I do not have to move backwards, this is a bad strategy. I move in, off the line if time, and force them off balance at the same time (and strike) regardless of my "stance". If the weight is on the back there is more mass/force to move into the front foot -drive forward /at angle/ and/or force them off center.
If one needs to move backward the concept which you don't understand "fajing" is used to explosively and almost instantly shift the weight and execute a powerful, smooth and effective method. This was not on the video, somethings you fail to understand are built in for an AH-HA moment later-which usually comes after working extensively with a partner. If the attacker pushes in I have plenty of places to go, perhaps you could benefit from some "push hands" training - I could show you hundreds of ways why your completely wrong. Ideally though one should MOVE, and not "hold ground" - but you don't always have time.
Additionally the weight is shifted to the front, or visa verse with an explosive waist shake back and forth, there is a lot of torque sent downward and bounced back up. Xinygyichuan does this particularly well. Many practitioners of such could prove you wrong as well.
Then you contradicted yourself again and started demonstrating 100% weight on the front foot. ??? One of the strikes you demonstrated could not physically have been delivered without lifting your heel, but in the video we couldn't see your feet.
If you start with the weight on the back, and shift to the front, you eventually need to shift the weight back, after all, the power should be continuous, and the strikes explosively move with the torque of the waist,, and power from the root.
All of the strikes I demonstrated can be physically delivered with extreme effectiveness. Some times my foot does come off the ground - it is required for some methods, after all, the legs are great for throwing, kicking, trapping, springing off, etc.
Next we come to 'push hands'. Once again I believe you technique is terrible. Your arms are rigid instead of absorbing and I would not be pushing out.
Again, this is where you are simply ignorant of the "why" behind this beginner method of push hands, later it gets much more fluid, dynamic, and engages both hands and the legs move freely. I will link a clip later illustrating this a bit. I said in the begging the movements are more rigid. The arms are more rigid to teach the student relaxed structure that will ward off a 300 pound attacker in his tracks and bounce him off. This is the idea of "Peng" and again you are incapable of doing such thing likely well at any level. Perhaps you should ask more "why" questions before coming to conclusions on my training methods.
You would be hit by your partner's free hand.
Well thank you Captain obvious, the training drill was not meant to be a contest about using each others free hands to hit. The drill was about teaching Peng, structure, turning the waist and rooting their energy when the peng is pushed on. There are countless benefits, and push hands goes way beyond your level, given time I'll post videos. You can let the public judge for themselves, I would love to see your videos in turn.
One really interesting thing you did was to step back, pulling your partner's hand down and firing your hand to your partner's face to "force the block", your words. When I was describing my 'predetermined response' in the thread on bunkai, you told me that that was choreography.
I didn't deny its natural for one to want to cover the face in response to an attack, but again this DRILL is meant to to one to use the peng/structure with both hands and change it up. The same method works while moving off the line forward, etc.
A bit later and you were talking of "springing up off the ground". I would have thought that was the exact opposite of what internal martial arts would teach.
That's your misperception, you don't have to spring up high, just into a target, following through taking them down/ off their center. Another quote that displays your ignorance of what I do-and IMA does.
I wrote down heaps more comments but I think I have posted enough to demonstrate why I don't like your material and I don't think you have a lot to offer any of the more experienced guys on this forum. :asian:
You should have spent the time attempting to learn the methods before you talk out of the A@@. It takes a good while to reap the benefits, especially since your Goju has you seriously Mal-trained. Thus far you haven't provided anything of value, nor have you demonstrated you are nothing but the peanut gallery with no experience in my arts/system. I have pressure tested / taught countless other instructors, special operators, special agents, and competitive boxers to name a few. I have more to offer the instructors here than you can contemplate.
You have three years of training in your chosen system. Your a newb in your chosen art, and are WAY out of your depth. Again, lets see your video?? This is laughable. I bet I wouldn't have to put my tea down to demonstrate why and how your methods are grossly inadequate. If you would like to fly out sometime when I have the extra $ I will reimburse you for your plane ticket if you can demonstrate that my methods are not significantly superior (in a friendly way of course-with rules). It will be filmed and posted regardless of result. Also feel free to bring your teacher.
best,
Gary
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