oaktree
Master of Arts
For decades there have been usually two camps to internal arts the ones who do it more for a dance and health and the ones who train it as a martial arts with the added benefit of health. There seems to be a third camp and that is the ones who attempt to train it as a martial art but train in it with a false pretense of what fighting is and about. This to me is very dangerous because it is better to either know how to fight or not know how to fight then think you know how to fight but really don't know how to fight.
Evaluating our training method is our training a realistic approach both physical and mental. If you are talking about pillows and couches and pushing lightly I can tell you never have been in a fight.
If you talk about using Fa jin to be able to escape a mount position on the ground you never been in a ground fight. I am all for traditional practice and training in the art for what it is, but if it can't be applied realistically it should not be claimed that it can be. Training exercises that do not get a student ready to deal with a realistic encounter should not be taught as a method to deal with a realistic encounter.
If someone wants to do push hands as a slow moving exercise great thousands of old ladies do the same and not one of them think they can fight like that. If you are a serious martial artist looking to actually be able to apply that in a street encounter then yes highly criticize doing slow movement and light force because it is not going to work on the 200lb guy trying to bash your brains in. Evalutate your art, criticize it, critique it, get pass the BS of it and get back to training it as something you can depend on to save your life.
In essences to the point don't BS yourself and others in realistic approaches to martial arts it can be dangerous
Evaluating our training method is our training a realistic approach both physical and mental. If you are talking about pillows and couches and pushing lightly I can tell you never have been in a fight.
If you talk about using Fa jin to be able to escape a mount position on the ground you never been in a ground fight. I am all for traditional practice and training in the art for what it is, but if it can't be applied realistically it should not be claimed that it can be. Training exercises that do not get a student ready to deal with a realistic encounter should not be taught as a method to deal with a realistic encounter.
If someone wants to do push hands as a slow moving exercise great thousands of old ladies do the same and not one of them think they can fight like that. If you are a serious martial artist looking to actually be able to apply that in a street encounter then yes highly criticize doing slow movement and light force because it is not going to work on the 200lb guy trying to bash your brains in. Evalutate your art, criticize it, critique it, get pass the BS of it and get back to training it as something you can depend on to save your life.
In essences to the point don't BS yourself and others in realistic approaches to martial arts it can be dangerous