I thought I'd show ignored content, I wish I hadn't...
So how long have you been studying submission wrestling for? Because your observations on what pummellings purpose is are pretty short sighted. Pummelling dovetails beautifully with chi Sao.
"The pummeling drill is about the importance of inside control and leverage in grappling."
So your chi Sao DOESNT help with this? Now you're just being provocative.
So are you now gonna say wc doesn't work in clinch range? Please...
"Chi sau teaches the striker elbow usage and structure for unattached hitting"
ah, the ol invincible immovable "vt" elbow.
So presumably you don't seek to control the opponent in any way while you are hitting them?
Oops, of course I forgot, your "vt" elbows take care of all that.
There seems to be 2 camps here, the unattached hitters vs the attached hitters. I know through experience that attached hitting is a far safer place to fight from and leads to less trading.