Other people on youtube have commented about his fundamentals as well. Ironically we often measure fighters by their fundamentals more so than the flashy stuff. I think of fundamentals like a strong root system of a large tree; even when the tree has been cut the root is not so easy to get rid of. The quality of a person's fundamentals will always show no matter how a person fights. I know for me, my fundamentals still show even when I fight lazy. People who have strong stances tend to show it when they fight or when they are just walking. Fundamentals become a part of the person so when the fundamentals of a person are weak, it shows.
He finally got went against someone of the same skill level. About time.
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WE'RE REAL MEN HERE....
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No it wasn't that she was a female that was an issue as it was that she was a female and I didn't know the extent of her skills. While it's easy to point to female professional fighters, it's not so easy to determine if an everyday woman will have fighting skills. Most girls are taught "to be girls" and do "girls things" so the chances of me sparring with a woman that hits like she did is rare. It's difficult to know just how skillful a woman will be at fighting until you actually fight or spar with her. It would have been different if I was in in gym full of professional fighters.
. What's wrong with my emphasis on sparring? What's wrong with my sparring form?
Which is funny to me because you are saying this to a guy whose Sifu refers to as "Pearl Harbor." I'll have to share this with him. He'll get a kick out of it. If you had a chance to spar with me then you would find humor in your statement as well. But it's good that you see my sparring this way.
The Sanda group my school spars with doesn't do "play-sparring" so the sparring sessions are very productive both for my school and theirs. I can only assume that they learned from sparring against us. I know I was able to gain a deeper understanding of my technique when I sparred against the same woman who lit me up with that combo. lol. Because we weren't trying to knock each other's head's off, I was able to work on some techniques and take a few punches to the face while I gain a better understanding of the technique. Thanks to her I can now do the technique without being hit in the face.
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edit: Despite his request to spar with me (stupid-a-mondo), his TMA skills and perspective were real....
Or, maybe it's all a confusion over spelling. Maybe it's reference to techniques learned from your Sifu's "auntie"! That would explain some of the problems pointed out with WC "auntie grappling" for example.
ILLUSTRATION #1: EXACTLY HOW I DON'T TRAIN
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As a matter of principle, I could wipe out either of these KICKBOXING, WHATEVER, stylistS...
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The only difference martial arts wise is as one poster commented: The Host Jai Harman has good athletics + very experienced. His opponent appears less athletic and largely inexperienced.
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So you have a good athlete with good training pretty much physically dominating the less capable noob.
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The TMA model addresses this by preparing the noob so that mentally his can out act a Jai Harmon-- with off course physical conditioning being a necessary TMA requisite....
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By TMA standards, the noob shouldn't be any where near the ring.... He's a double / triple disaster by TMA standards....
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Here's your link. I will refer to a specific point... I know it's a sparring exercise, and I too have been surprised by the ferocity of my sparring partners.... but as a general rule.... not.... only on rare occasions such as when I was requested to prepare someone for specific issues and the partner broke the premise for the sparring session....
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TIME = 0.15 [GREAT CLIP INCIDENTALLY]
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You initiate a half-hearted right forward punch or front punch which then she parries or presses down.
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She then feints a counter right reverse punch which your back hand raises to parry / block.
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You also employ the hands up guard and chin tuck, with combined with head movement and body lean- twisting raises your rear foot off the floor, with your weight largely planted on your front, lead foot.
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Now this is a little confusing 'cause you fight southpaw.... So I'll have to switch to southpaw to make a specific comment.... Let's also assume I will use what I understand to be the standard kung fu guard....
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First of all, I am upright with my chin up, standing in a TMA stance, typically a high bow & arrow stance or fighting stance by karate... or a forward or front stance by karate... My hands are in a TMA guard with my right hand extended about chest to chin high by my opponent. My left arm is retracted and in front of my abdomen, I typically keep that hand (both hands) clenched although open hand(s) is traditional as well..
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The right I would have initiated would have extended through her guard to a target... it's that simple in physical movement. I would have also transitioned to deliberate contact range prior to initiating my strike.
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Had she interfered with my lead right (doubtful), upon her reverse right punch feint.... I would have absolutely done nothing physically. Not a thing.... Mentally, I would have gauged the feint as harmless, which it was.... I would for that instant, remained exactly in place (both feet firmly on the floor), exactly upright and exactly in standard guard....
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Her speedy follow-on reverse right is exactly in position to be standard tma - blocked by either of my guard hands (inside or outside).... the most expedient is my outstretched right...which is probably what I would use given her extreme speed...
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With her lead hand weapon neutralized.... one hand momentarily taken out of action.... in that precise moment I would counter with either hand. The head is the logical target because it is the closest and completely exposed by my negating her right striking hand.
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Just as head moment, body lean, hands up guard doesn't work for you in this instance.... It's not going to work for her either because I'm too fast, accurate & dynamic for her to react.
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All the kihon karate (basic kung fu) techniques give one the palate of strikes & stances to use and the one steps give you the tactics... all represented in the kata or forms with continuous motion....
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It's the heightened mental discipline of TMA training that provides the mental capability for me to overcome her.... or any one else (in principle). No learning from sparring that my assumptions & guesses about what she is doing will enable me to react or out react her skills.... That's the TMA watershed////
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Good luck learning that from me.... it's not done by sparring with me.... it's done by doing what that kung fu instructor said about forms training... IN PRINCIPLE....
Right, the lacked defensive capability.... so common... but he did put his hands up versus your criticism.... to absolutely no avail.....
Again, I take or sample some TMA stuff and since I don't really have the mental discipline to actually use TMA, I'll just revert to monkey-see-monkey-do kickboxing that all these 'expert' MMA promoters and competitors are doing....
Because everyone knows that TMA only worked 100's of years ago....
RIGHT ON.... WEED OUT THE SISSIES....
YEAH, SHAKE IT OUT AND COME BACK IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS.... SAME ADVICE THE BLACK-GI'E TKD INSTRUCTORS LIKELY GAVE THE SUPPOSED TKD BLACK-BELT IN MY BACKFIST BREAK FAIL YT VID..... SHAKE IT OUT & COME BACK IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS....
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now THAT is funny!!!!
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hahahahahaha
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shake it out, shake it off
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oh, and 'good luck with that
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Your analysis is correct about the countering the 2nd exchange. That's pretty much what I did. I would have create another thread in order to show that. I don't want to take this topic off too far off course. This is the end result of the technique I was working on that day. It looks like it's just a hook, but it's not. The technique is what got me there. Also take notice of the placement of the hook. This is why I don't blast people in sparring. I've been hit with the same technique before and I'm not ashamed to admit that I was happy that my partner didn't put power into the punch. I kept using the same technique on everyone because I wanted them to catch on and to be able to defend against it. This means that I have to be able to alter a technique slightly in order to keep it effective. It's one of those techniques that you can block one way and feel safe, only to have it hit you in the same place by slightly altering it.
Out of that entire video this is what I noticed the most. Jai clearly had more skills to the point where he could have easily demonstrated good Wing Chun or good Muay Thai, or good Kickboxing skills and technique, but he didn't do it. Instead he just freestyle attacked the guy. He did a little bit of boxing, a little bit of Muay Thai, a little bit of show boating and none of it really showing an ability of technique. Things like punching with elbows out and only generating power with the arms really stood out to me.
