No I shouldn't, because people back then had imaginations and artistic expressions as well. Just like this image which isn't about martial arts, it's a story picture. People play music and had other forms of entertainment.
Nelson has a 23-19 pro record (would have been 23-14 if he had retired from fighting at age 41 like a normal person), much of that fighting at the highest levels of the sport, was IFL champion, was winner of The Ultimate Fighter in 2009, and has wins against some very tough competitors. He's past his prime and was never one of the top 5 in the world, but he was a very good fighter. He may not look that great if you only compare him to modern UFC champions, but I'd rate him easily above 99% of the pro fighters in the world.
I do not believe that illustrated posture comes from actual archery practice. I believe it comes from a recognized similarity to what might be an archery posture, and the name was given as a descriptive reference. In my lifelong archery practice, I’ve never hit a stance quite like that. The leg position in the illustration looks more like a square horse, which I personally find to be not particularly right for archery. That is not a posture that I have ever seen called a “bow and arrow stance”.You should. It's all we really have from 400 years ago. There are multiple "bow and arrow" stances predating modern photography but Juk Meen Jin Choi is called "bow and arrow" for a reason.
Here is a very famous Southern master illustrated for purposes of instruction in the early 20th century, you can easily see how the "bow and arrow" stance pictured here (whether you call it Gong Ma Bo, Gung Gi Bo, Ji Ng Ma Bo) originates from a long-range archer's position. It's also one of the major Southern bridges (Juk Kiu, the "direct" bridge).
If you can't, maybe you've never fired a bow, which isn't all that uncommon in the 21st century, so nothing to be ashamed of. If you have, just drop into the stance and pretend you have a longbow. It'll click. If you can understand this hanzi, it'll click even more.
We addressed this in posts 26 and 27.
All of this and not one work of Martial Arts Instruction or mention that this picture represents Martial arts.
Nah it's just him not doing research and looking at pictures and thinking that he knows the truth behind it based on what he thinks.
Weapons were probably born from tools. Things like hunting wild animals or protection from wild animals would probably be on the top of the list. If you had to defend your self against a big cat then having a good pointy stick can make a big difference. If you didn't have a big stick then having something to keep the lion off of you also becomes useful. Anything that can be used as a shield. If it wasn't a big cat then we can always look for pack animals that hunt. If you can use a tool to kill animals then it wouldn't take much longer to figure out you could do the same thing to a person, it now moves from tool to weapon.
This isn't really addressed to you Flying Crane. Just using it as an opportunity to drive the point into reality for Oiley before he starts explaining or telling me to go shoot an arrow around a bunch of kids with bad hair cuts.
Yep thanks. I goofed on that one.
As an archery stance it is highly exaggerated at best. I’ve been an archer since I was a child, I’ve never hit a proper square horse in doing archery. A square horse is uncomfortable and awkward in archery.
This is another case of Descriptive vs Actual and you keep confusing the two because you do not distinguish between the two and your kung fu will suffer. This is the same mindset that many people fall into when trying to fight using TMA techniques. They think the Form is the exact manner of how one actually fights. But in reality, the techniques are more like a descriptive representation of what is actually used in fighting.
If you are talking about the guy shooting the dog in the sky then you clearly haven't been looking at the links
