Rambling Ruminations

[ShotoNoob]

it's important to note that free sparring in nearly any striking style looks like Kickboxing, that's where kickboxing came from.

---But why is that? The answer I have come to is that the biomechanics of boxing/kickboxing is a more natural and instinctive way to move. You take a classical martial art (be it Wing Chun, Karate, Hung Ga, etc. ), throw it into a sparring situation and you see a version of kickboxing. If that is what works when fighting, shouldn't THAT be what people are actually training? Why spend all that time training the "classical" style?

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When the 1st protagonist said the world was round, everyone said, "you can see it's flat." So why study science, why change from what everybody's doing.
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So from your supposition, TMA is bunk if everyone is kickboxing. Maybe the way to beat the rough, tough kickboxer is WC?

P.S. Wasn't the origin of WC from a diminutive female developing a system to outfight larger, stronger, more aggressive male opponents. Would Kickboxing lessons have done the trick for her????