Xue Sheng
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Have your opinion changed about a style by 1 person or seminar?
Here is my story, what's yours
I was reading another post, who have you meant, and it got me thinking about this
I will admit many years ago I did not have a very high opinion of Japanese Karate. This came from my initial training in Jujitsu and was later confirmed by my training in TKD and then CMA. It seemed that no matter who my Jujitsu teacher spared, if they were from a Karate school he could always take out their front leg very quickly and in some cases multiple times. My Jujitsu training was from way back in the stone age and back then there was a lot of sparing going on within the school I was at and outside between various other arts and schools. It was actually a lot of fun and quite friendly.
Later after training TKD (Pre-Olympic, like I said - stone age) I went into CMA and my first CMA Sifu allowed basically gave us the school Saturday afternoons and we spared, multiple styles once again, and I always was able to take the front leg of any Japanese karate guy every time
Several years ago (approaching modern times) a friend of mine who trained Aikido and Karate talked me into going to this 3 day martial arts thing and one of the seminars given by Fumio Demura. It was not an easy sell and I reluctantly gave in and I am happy I did to this day.
He was older than most in the room and smaller than most in the room and he put us through a workout that left us all, but him, gasping for air and he did the workout right along with us. And then we started working on apps and which involved throws, which I did not know karate had until then he knew his art incredibly well and demonstrated every app on various people with ease and after watching his stance and watching him move I was fairly convinced that taking out his front leg was not an option, unless I was looking to get hurt.
I later discussed this with my friend and a few others over the years and I can only chalk it up to the majority of Karate people my Sensei spared and that I later spared were points fighters or they were just bad at karate. I have an American Kempo guy, who was one hell of a fighter; give me the points fighter possibility.
I have since been much more open minded about all martial arts.
Anyone else have something like this happen that changed their opinion?
Here is my story, what's yours
I was reading another post, who have you meant, and it got me thinking about this
I will admit many years ago I did not have a very high opinion of Japanese Karate. This came from my initial training in Jujitsu and was later confirmed by my training in TKD and then CMA. It seemed that no matter who my Jujitsu teacher spared, if they were from a Karate school he could always take out their front leg very quickly and in some cases multiple times. My Jujitsu training was from way back in the stone age and back then there was a lot of sparing going on within the school I was at and outside between various other arts and schools. It was actually a lot of fun and quite friendly.
Later after training TKD (Pre-Olympic, like I said - stone age) I went into CMA and my first CMA Sifu allowed basically gave us the school Saturday afternoons and we spared, multiple styles once again, and I always was able to take the front leg of any Japanese karate guy every time
Several years ago (approaching modern times) a friend of mine who trained Aikido and Karate talked me into going to this 3 day martial arts thing and one of the seminars given by Fumio Demura. It was not an easy sell and I reluctantly gave in and I am happy I did to this day.
He was older than most in the room and smaller than most in the room and he put us through a workout that left us all, but him, gasping for air and he did the workout right along with us. And then we started working on apps and which involved throws, which I did not know karate had until then he knew his art incredibly well and demonstrated every app on various people with ease and after watching his stance and watching him move I was fairly convinced that taking out his front leg was not an option, unless I was looking to get hurt.
I later discussed this with my friend and a few others over the years and I can only chalk it up to the majority of Karate people my Sensei spared and that I later spared were points fighters or they were just bad at karate. I have an American Kempo guy, who was one hell of a fighter; give me the points fighter possibility.
I have since been much more open minded about all martial arts.
Anyone else have something like this happen that changed their opinion?