Flying Crane
Sr. Grandmaster
@Alan0354
You have continued to dodge this question. Do you have an answer, or shall we simply allow the record to show that you refuse to answer?
What I learned after 4 months of punching the heavy bag
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You have continued to dodge this question. Do you have an answer, or shall we simply allow the record to show that you refuse to answer?
I answered you in detail. This is a debate, I voice my opinion, so did you.
Flying Crane
Sr. Grandmaster
No, you did not. What do you expect will happen by complaining hard enough about how other people train?
I don't expect anything, you guys are experts, I am only middle of the road, you give me too much credit that people would listen to me. I just voice my opinion.
This is a very interested question. Someone asked me, "Why do you want to spend time in online discussion?" My answer to that person was, "There are something that I feel strongly and I want to say."
Why do you come to
A: a Judo forum and complain that people need to train no-gi wrestling?
B: a Taiji forum and complain that people need to train sparring?
C: this forum and complain that form is for teaching/learning/recording only, and form is not for training?
D: this forum and complain that self-defense should also include to protect family members and love one?
My answer to A, B, C, and D are:
Someone has to remind people that there are other things that they may need to consider. Sometimes, someone has to speak up even if his opinion is not popular, and he knows that he doesn't belong to the mainstream.
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Sometimes, someone has to speak up even if his opinion is not popular, and he knows that he doesn't belong to the mainstream.
This remind me that I got A from a speech course when I was in the University of Kansas at Lawrence.
As a foreign student during my first year in US, my English was not very good. During the speech class, the teacher and all the students sat outdoor on the grass and just talked. Most students started their speech with, "I don't know ..." When teacher asked me, "What's your opinion about the limited resource on earth and the over human population problem?" My answer was, "The more population we have, the more genius that we will create, the more change that those genius will solve this problem." I was the only person in that class who expressed such unusual opinion. I got "A" in that course, and I was an "honor student" that semester (I got all A in that semester).
This remind me that I got A from a speech course when I was in the University of Kansas at Lawrence.
As a foreign student during my first year in US, my English was not very good. During the speech class, the teacher and all the students sat outdoor on the grass and just talked. Most students started their speech with, "I don't know ..." When teacher asked me, "What's your opinion about the limited resource on earth and the over human population problem?" My answer was, "The more population we have, the more genius that we will create, the more change that those genius will solve this problem." I was the only person in that class who expressed such unusual opinion. I got "A" in that course, and I was an "honor student" that semester (I got all A in that semester).
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And from talking, I get to see you do incorporate kicking and other stuffs into the training, my eyes opened.
My whole point is not about who's better or even where the technique came from. Who cares, the point is about improving and I am sure everyone can improve. Nothing wrong of practicing round kick, side kick, jump side kick like in your video, who cares who invented those!!! If it is useful, just use it.
Like my teacher never even want us to use TKD hands, he taught boxing hands and we practice literally kick boxing in the class. Still TKD kicks all the way. He even brought in a Jujitsu instructor once a month to teach us. I think this is how a good school should be.
drop bear
Sr. Grandmaster
You find out those who can justify their methods and those who can't.
Flying Crane
Sr. Grandmaster
Well no, you keep complaining about it. You must expect some outcome?
I think you are not listening( or reading). There's nothing I can do.
What outcome? You are in control of your school, not me. Other people are in control what they do, not me. I just voice my opinion. Seems like you are very defensive. Something only you know why.
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OP
OP
Yep. That concept of pinning an opponent against the ropes or the ring is probably only applicable to sports that fight in a cage or a ring.
People spend so much time trying to control their opponent's arms. People don't spend enough time trying to control their opponent's legs.
Why?
I have asked this questin among Taiji people. They all hate me for saying that.
The more I talk, the more I realize myself my issue with forms is on the arm and hand stuffs, not so much on kicking and others. It's like the movements are so fancy, blocking, trapping.....particular WC sticky hands.People spend so much time trying to control their opponent's arms. People don't spend enough time trying to control their opponent's legs.
Why?
I have asked this questin among Taiji people. They all hate me for saying that.
If one can have good takedown defense, one can go a long way in fighting. Again I look at those UFC stuffs, so many strikers cannot standing and get taken down, all the striking techniques are out the window when one is flat on it's back.
OP
OP
Which is strange because some of the techniques in the form are for controlling the legs. I think a lot is lost due to the fact that they are applying what they are training in open competition. System A vs System A is not the best way to understand a fighting system.
OP
OP
Actually you see more people in UFC use take down defense. If you can't take a person down then all of your ground fighting skills go out the window.
for people that are not good in grappling, it's better to have take down defense and not getting on the ground.
In the folllowing clip, if the guy on the left just use the leg skill "shin bite" only, he can take down his opponent.
like this.
