thekuntawman
Purple Belt
this post is for "arnisador" and hoping it can help out other people to.
in another topic i said that in the philippines most of the styles you can find there are not "complete" like the magazines and most people here in the us thing complete means. they usually do not do a lots of disarmings and millions of counters and things like that. in my own system, we do use the yantok at daga but not the way everyone else does, so usually i just say i dont teach it at all. still many styles does not even have sinawali either. of course everyone knows the 10 that the presases do, that is pretty mcuh standard, but many styles dont do them. even kids on the street know how to do it.
anyway to answer your question arnisador, i do not consider competition fighting to be "sport" even though it can be. fighters use the competition to give there skills a boost so we know how to take a hit, how to time the opponent attack, and how to adjust to the speed of a real fight. of course competition is not the streets, but as a law abideing practioner, we get whatever fighting experience we can. competitions fightting puts you inf front of many different body sizes, skills and faces and attitiudes. in a street fight you know nothing about your opponent and what he will do, so if you get more epxerience than the next guy you have the advantage.
what is common with the "fighting artists" ( not "martial" artists) is that they put more attention to the attackings instead of the counter. i know, "complete" styles have more counters than anything, but most of the focus on fighting styles is on ways to attack.
when i was training at home to prepare for a visit to the philippines when i was 18 years old, my grandfather made me practice with the same three and five hits combinations hundreds of times to get ready for my cousins who i didnt see in seven years. most of my friends who participated in NARAPHIL competition, do not spend ther times with disarmings and give and take. we make a few hit combos (using ernesto presas 1-6, try this one, 5-6-3-2) and do them so many times your opponent cannot counter them. if you focus on hit combinations you cant go wrong.
in another topic i said that in the philippines most of the styles you can find there are not "complete" like the magazines and most people here in the us thing complete means. they usually do not do a lots of disarmings and millions of counters and things like that. in my own system, we do use the yantok at daga but not the way everyone else does, so usually i just say i dont teach it at all. still many styles does not even have sinawali either. of course everyone knows the 10 that the presases do, that is pretty mcuh standard, but many styles dont do them. even kids on the street know how to do it.
anyway to answer your question arnisador, i do not consider competition fighting to be "sport" even though it can be. fighters use the competition to give there skills a boost so we know how to take a hit, how to time the opponent attack, and how to adjust to the speed of a real fight. of course competition is not the streets, but as a law abideing practioner, we get whatever fighting experience we can. competitions fightting puts you inf front of many different body sizes, skills and faces and attitiudes. in a street fight you know nothing about your opponent and what he will do, so if you get more epxerience than the next guy you have the advantage.
what is common with the "fighting artists" ( not "martial" artists) is that they put more attention to the attackings instead of the counter. i know, "complete" styles have more counters than anything, but most of the focus on fighting styles is on ways to attack.
when i was training at home to prepare for a visit to the philippines when i was 18 years old, my grandfather made me practice with the same three and five hits combinations hundreds of times to get ready for my cousins who i didnt see in seven years. most of my friends who participated in NARAPHIL competition, do not spend ther times with disarmings and give and take. we make a few hit combos (using ernesto presas 1-6, try this one, 5-6-3-2) and do them so many times your opponent cannot counter them. if you focus on hit combinations you cant go wrong.