What makes a Martial Arts System Practical for Physical Self-Defense?

Greg Saunders

 

Ah right.. that's interesting... so being of a certain age justifies certain behaviours... I'm legit just trying to understand not judge. All good we can drop it if you'd like

 

The dude with red gloves come in to challenge? Really impressed by the fellow with black gloves, he only ramped it up when the other guy went a bit hard, and didn't beat him to a pulp, but showed his skill for sure.

 

Yeah. He is a super nice guy.

We knew the other dude wasn't very good.

 

im fine with it, what happened 48 year ago justifies certain behaviours, if id have run into him when i was 20, he would have got a lot lot worse, so he is lucky to a large extent,

he made a living beating up little kids then he got to exsperiance what it feels like to be powerless, i think thats fair and just, clearly you dont, so we differ in philosophy

 

we are branching off a bit, but back in my kung fu days, we did an enourmass amount of body weight exercises where the body weight was someone elses, which needs you to select partners a bit, to prevent dropping, but hell that teaches them breakfalls.

i, at about 160 lb, used to get the 300lb guy, as no one else could lift him, i tell you hopping round the gym with him on my back, was a good work out

 

the real problem you have, isnt finding exercises that produces posertive results in a short time, it getting a cross section of the public to put in enough effort to count as HIT or HIIT,


there still a gain for them, even if they are only at 60% effort , as what they can do at 60% increases week on week( at least for a while), just nowhere near as fast as it might otherwise.

and clearly you need to start them off wiith something achievable and turn it up over a few weeks

 

So gain that experience in sanctioned bouts. The benefits are:

• Rules for player safety
• Referees for player safety
• Medical personnel on-site for player safety

Are you noticing a theme here?

Plus, I wouldn't exactly call myself young anymore. Maybe by @Dirty Dog 's standards. I'm not old yet, but I'm not young.

 

well there are different cultures in different places and different times and times of your life

when i was young if someone challenged you to a fight, then, given any equality in size, you had a fight, it was just that simple

that doesnt seem to be the case so muchthese days, which may be a good thing that casual violence isnt so casual .

but there is it seems a lot more passivly agresive behavior, which doesnt happen so much if your likely to be punched on the nose, so its swings and round abouts

i had some bigish guy walk 50 yards to give me a peice of his mind at the top of his voice,, when o ffered to fight him he left, dont get these people at all

 

When the 8 steps praying mantis master Wei Shao-Tang was in his 70, one day he was sitting in a chair and watched his students training in the park. A Zimen system guy bowed to Wei first. the Zimen guy then stepped in, and poked his fingers tips on Wei's chest while Wei was still sitting in his chair. The Zimen guy then bowed and left without saying a word. Next day that Zimen guy announced that he was faster than the 8 step praying mantis master. He attacked Wei's chest, Wei could not even block it.

When I cross trained the Zimen system, my Zimen brothers were proudly to tell me this. In Taiwan, if your name belong to the top 10 CMA masters list, every body will want to defeat you.

8 steps praying mantis master Wei Shao-Tang.

 

This is a very famous video clip. When the Chen Taiji master Chen Xiao Wang visited Taiwan from China, a young guy challenged him in push hand. After the young guy push on Chen's chest, the young guy announced that he had defeated the Taiji master Chen Xiao Wang.

May be the MA culture in China and Taiwan is different from the MA culture in US.