Wether we train boxing or Muay thai, we can only move in 8 directions, every thing else is a variation, as long as it is done with good posture, we work balanced and with strength was my point. 2 different principles to achieve efficient motion
And if we did go through the work, to create the giant book... I guess we would just call it Sanda...
Asked in sarcasm..but that's honestly a good question, in a more general sense. If there are ways of training that produce tangible results, and other ways of training that do not, why be undyingly loyal to the latter?
Not really. You could go to a "general programming" class, but it won't teach you all the languages (unless it's really a string of classes on different programming languages). It will teach you basic logic (loops, conditionals, error trapping, etc.), usually using a couple of languages. Or it will simply teach you parts of languages (in that case, I'd assume - like some MMA gyms - it's parts that work together, like HTML and CSS).
But you're still talking about styles. Styles mostly are a generalized "because" - they have an overall approach, and (in a broad sense, not in all particulars) choose movement and technique to work with that approach.
There are folks who choose exactly that in their music. They want to be able to play the songs they like, and that style is what they learn to play.
Why are you hell-bent on "no style"? That book (actually, a large set of books) would be a compendium of styles. It would be "all styles".
With that, I agree. And I think that is (or ought to be) the point of training. You learn specific approaches - working within limitations, so you avoid specific mistakes and habits while you're learning. Once you reach a certain level, there should be a shift to working in what I call the "grey areas": places where it's not technique from the style's curriculum, but an application of basic principles in whatever way works.
That sounds an awful lot like a style.
All styles = no style.
Just to be a nudge, i would say 10 directions- up and down as well.
No you are correct 10 directions it is. It's a very valid point, especially when people pass the mid forties shall we say, start to develop a fear of, or start to struggle, or find being on the floor uncomfortable, or indeed jumping any higher than an inch or 2.
Yes. That is true.
I could not agree more, many people, work under a self imposed false cealing by the restrictions they place upon themselves through fear or self doubt. Most will train with a blind faith, only believing their skills when they are called upon, or actually have to use them, personal fear controls most people's actions, and at that point, most people will crumble, this is what I like about my current training, learn to deal with being hit, it's going to happen, it's how you respond to the big hit, the fast person, the knife, the multiple adversaries. Self defense is how you survive, not how you look.
When I was in my high school long fist class, during the weekend my long fist teacher brought us to visit a local preying mantis school. I found those PM guys trained their form in much
or more ? really, if you want to be ' technical ' how many degrees do you think a sphere has ?
