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fighting words lolMost of the TMA guys will only punch into the thin air through their old age.
fighting words lolMost of the TMA guys will only punch into the thin air through their old age.
Most of the TMA guys will only punch into the thin air through their old age.
That's my experience from the people I know. I can also see that around the world. Just go to any park in China, you can draw your own conclusion.You know this for a fact?
Not sure where you got all this. You said something about common punching vs traditional punching. Softer, traditional punching causes injury while normal, common punching doesn't, or something along those lines. You had some kind of punch and some kind of context in mind. So, rather than asking a bunch of questions, could you please just explain what you meant?Depends on the type of punch and the context of that punch. Is it with boxing gloves on or off. Is it a jab? How far is the punch from the target? When it comes to having a focus on effectiveness and efficiency, I think TMAs are super focused almost to a fault.
I think my Hung ga punching techniques of creating a fist would be useless if I had to fight with boxing gloves on. Which in that case those traditional techniques (which weren't made to be used with gloves) would probably hurt me more than help me.
Lol. Was that intentionally ironic? If so, bravo. Very witty.fighting words lol
I don't punch from my waist either.Yes! I'm a TMA guy, and I do not understand why there should be any difference between "training" and "application".
I have always believed in "Train as I fight". If I always punch from on guard position", that will be the way I train.
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I will never train how to punch from my waist.
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I have. My experience tells me different. Depends on the individual. I would never make a claim across the board.That's my experience from the people I know. I can also see that around the world. Just go to any park in China, you can draw your own conclusion.
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Or simply a regular activity, like working on the heavy bag during every training session. But people don't tend to think of that kind of thing as a ritual or as "traditional". I think they tend to think more of things like special training uniforms and (possibly perceived as excessive) bowing, which things may still have relevance in the home culture in which the system was born.
I guess then anything can be traditional. If I get up in the morning and run 10km every day, that can become a tradition, especially if my son starts to do it with me, and eventually his son with him.
I always just looked at it as training. And training means lots of repetition of techniques and drills that give results. So we just keep doing them.I did mention grey are the first time.
I think the ritual is what separates sumo from wrestling.
You look at tma and you associate belts,uniform,kata and linage.
The focus is on the ritual nature of those martial arts. Your run could become traditional depending on how much focus you place on the ritual of doing it.
You trained in kenpo? I myself have never done this technique outside of practicing. I said before to another user that if I have their hand that there are many other and in my opinion better things I can do to my opponent with control of their wrist. I can use many Judo techniques for example or I can simple hang on to it and make them unable to back away from my sidekick to the ribs. The biggest no no of the technique here is the last part I would say. I can see the first part working but why bother when there are safer things? Maybe this technique was designed to fight idiots idk, I didn't make it.
How many arts have you trianed in? As a fellow bear I am interested in your history in the arts.
I always just looked at it as training. And training means lots of repetition of techniques and drills that give results. So we just keep doing them.
I've gotten away from systems that use a specific uniform and belts. I find them to be a distraction and not terribly comfortable. But my experience with the traditional martial arts, in the context of the best instructor that I have had, the ritual was minimal. We just kept training. Do it again. Do it again. Do it again...
Yes! I'm a TMA guy, and I do not understand why there should be any difference between "training" and "application".
I have always believed in "Train as I fight". If I always punch from on guard position", that will be the way I train.
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I will never train how to punch from my waist.
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In daito ryu aikijujutsu it is said some of the moves come from sumo and if so it has some nasty applicationsso what about sumo? That is a purely sport/ritual art and has practically no fighting application.
All you have listed are traditional because they follow a lineage of some sort and have been passed down from one person to another. Now some of them are modern and some of them are not modern.To the Tae-Kwon-Do guys, is TKD a traditional Martial Art?
To the Kenpo guys, is Kenpo a traditional Martial Art?
To the Wing Chun guys, is Wing Chun a traditional Martial Art?
To the Kung Fu guys, is Kung Fu a traditional Martial Art?
To the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu guys, is BJJ a traditional Martial Art?
To the Aikido guys, is Aikido a traditional Martial Art?
To the Judo guys, is Judo a traditional Martial Art?
To the Wrestlers, is Wrestling a traditional Martial Art?
To Capoeira practitioners, is Capoeira a traditional Martial Art?
To the Boxers, is Boxing a traditional Martial Art?
To the Uechi guys, Is Uechi-ryu a traditional Martial Art?
To the Tai-Chi guys, is Tai-Chi a traditional Martial Art?
To everyone on this forum, is YOUR art a traditional Martial Art?
Whatever you train, please chime in. Help us out here. If you train more than one Art, great, but is each Art a traditional Martial Art or what? I mean, who would know more about your art than you?
No problem. I'll first show some boxing jabs and I'll compare it to what I train in.Not sure where you got all this. You said something about common punching vs traditional punching. Softer, traditional punching causes injury while normal, common punching doesn't, or something along those lines. You had some kind of punch and some kind of context in mind. So, rather than asking a bunch of questions, could you please just explain what you meant?
Same here. I don't punch from the waist. I punch from my root.I don't punch from my waist either.
Same here. I don't punch from the waist. I punch from my root.
In that picture you show. The person at the bottom is actually punching from the root and not the waist. If you are doing that technique from the waist then you are missing the power that can be generated from the root. When you do forms you'll gradually feel the connection and learn how to generate power from the root.I will never train how to punch from my waist.