ha ha ha. It was a decent amount. I'll put it this way. If EWwwww. is the response for touching other people's sweat then training would have only been 5 minutes long.A "little" training? How many pints of sweat did you lose?
Not sure what "that" is.
Right. For example, you throw a straight punch to set up a round punch as Floyd did, not 2 horizontal punches.
If the opponent defends your punches, you can get them to open up, draw them in (lure) or get them stuck and shuffle in (follow), which can be seen in the Choy Lay Fut video.
One variation that works well for me is that right after the downward long fist (overhand), instead of rolling it into a backfist. Raise that same arm and send it back under his chin. If you can reach the chin then use it to blast through the guard. If he punches while you are in the process of doing thins, then use that swinging arm to interfere with any incoming punch. As that goes through follow up with an upper cut. Long fist upper cuts are a little than how boxers do it. Boxers like to get tight with there upper cuts. With this one you want to be long.
The way that I solve that problem is to set up a rule such as:
If you spar against Mike Tyson. He drops his level and let you to knock him down. You have recorded the whole fight on video. You then put your video online. People may say that Mike Tyson is no good anymore, and you are better than Mike Tyson. How can Mike Tyson be able to protect his reputation after that?
I'm not sure about your statement as it refers to Tony because I don't have enough to go on about how the sparring went. I could be thinking one thing and something totally different could have actually happen, in reference as to why the technique became less effective.. For starters, it's not like Tony has been using these strikes for 5 years lol. So I'm just not sure. Everything at this point is just and educated guess until Tony fills in the gaps that we have with the information that we are missing.
Yep this is where I am. I've eaten a lot of punches learning long fist strikes. A lot of trial and error, so I'm trying to remember times when I failed and why I failed. I know variation was a big issue for me. Also trying to start the long fist strike was a challenge. Trying to use the long fist strikes as the first punch feels like trying to get a big truck to accelerate really fast. It took me a while to figure out that the techniques hide "the wind up" ,It wasn't until I ate a bunch of punches that I worked that one out. lol.
Not realistic. At least in my life. I have no problems like what your scenario describes. This is the last thing in my life that I would need to worry about. I would worry about a whale pooping on me before I spend time worrying about people thinking that I'm not good in Kung Fu. People have seen me get tossed around in the gym, get pinned, get put into headlocks that I can't get out of. And people still come to me asking for advice.
I I'm sure that will change once you have gotten used to using footwork and the arm swings. If you are already missing only by a couple of inches then you are well within range. where a 2 inch shuffle or step 2 inches more will all you to contact. If he was using your lead swing to guage distance then you can use a shorter swing on the first so that you can hide the true distance.
I still can't do this with any of the swings. I'm not even sure if that's possible without going slow.
I'm thinking that this must have been a cultural issue that existed during your youth. None of this type of concern existed in my youth. Nor have I had teachers who looked at me and decided they wouldn't teach something to me because they thought I would challenge them. I really think it's cultural.
In Chinese culture, MA reputation is worth to be guarded with your life. After you have obtained a championship record, you try to guard with your life and not to lost it. Sometimes it forces you to stop your tournament career and turn down challenges in order to protect your title. Too many people try to defeat you and earn quick reputation overnight without going through the normal tournaments process.
However again, we can take the fighting principles and posted fights where similar long fist strikes "actually happened," your fight video of Floyd Mayweather and the Choy Lay Fut video.
I posted the drills because it includes concepts more than what is used in the MMA video. For example a example the MMA video doesn't show clearing head concepts. The guy that got the elbow to the face didn't use clearing hand technique/concept. I also think his stance may have been incorrect for the technique he was trying to use. But for the moment training the movement is priority so that the concepts will be easy to follow and the application will be easier to pull off.However again, we can take the fighting principles and posted fights where similar long fist strikes "actually happened," your fight video of Floyd Mayweather and the Choy Lay Fut video.
1. Weight on front foot.
2. Shift weight to back foot (roll back/pull), while stepping ahead with front foot. This sets up mechanics for the right hand (push). Target (head) is between both feet.
3. Issue overhand right by pushing off both feet, while shifting weight to front foot.
Your Jow Ga posted drills drill technique. While, Dominick Cruz, MMA and muay thai drills include concepts, controlling the space, luring, listening and timing an attack.
No, it doesn't. It may be more clear if I change the comma to a semicolon, "MMA and muay thai drills include concepts: controlling the space, luring, listening and timing an attack." Cruz explains the difference in correct and incorrect timing. The timing concept is applied to striking too.
Yes, it does. Both the MMA and Choy Lay Fut videos control the hands. Again, the fighters strike their opponent without getting hit. They display correct timing in their fights. Cruz demonstrates and drills controlling the space, luring the opponent to throw the rear hand, then slipping and changing levels—which is applied to striking too.
Dominick Cruz is one of the reasons that I had an interest in learning the long fist style swings in the first place. He doesn't use them exactly like Jow Ga or other long fist CMA systems, but the underlying concept is there, mixed in with all the other elements of his arsenal.
Show me in the videos where the concept of rolling a backfist is used to clear an incoming punch. Show me in the video the rising punch and how that is used to strike the face or break through a guard.
The Floyd Mayweather, MMA and Choy Lay Fut videos control the hands. They don't chase hands, They control them. What is important is the difference in timing.
Definitely not how I throw them. It good to see that the fighters had a similar reaction to the incoming punches. Trying to figure out long fist punches during a match is the worst time to work on that puzzle.
Control the hands aren't the concepts that I speak of. I already know the control the hands. I was mentioning the concepts that weren't there in those videos.
Yes it is, only different methods.
