if its going to look like boxing you need to make it look like good boxing
If you are doing boxing then yes. If you aren't doing boxing then it won't look like bad boxing. Sometimes things look like bad boxing simply because it's not boxing.
to many moving parts, that go to hell when your under pressure.
This should never happen if the person is training whatever system. This is the trust part that I was referring to in describing how I train and teach. If you bail out of a system simply because you are in high pressure situations then I would say that the training was bad and not sufficient for us. Whatever you train, you have to be able to trust it 100% or you won't be able to use it If you bail out of what you learned just because the aggression of the situation bring doubt that you can use what you train, then your training was probably lacking. 99% chance this is the case.
Keep in mind, I'm not talking about the made up yellow bamboo type martial arts. I'm only talking about systems that can be used to fight with.
to many moving parts, that go to hell when your under pressure.
If the person actually knows how to use the components in a free sparring (both light and mid intensity levels) then they should be able to use those same techniques when the fight comes. If you want to fight with things like kung fu then the techniques have to become part of you. It has to be as natural as breathing.
I've often find that people make martial arts like kung fu, karate, and other types of martial arts more complicated than it is. Hollywood has made many of these systems, magical and when people take them, they are expecting Hollywood results. I know form me, the most difficult thing with kung fu was to get rid of that Hollywood representation of kung fu and to get rid of my idea of how Kung Fu "is supposed to look".
Things became easier after I was able to destroy those 2 walls and the system as a whole became less complicated.. Fewer movements improves the learning rate and the person will reach application level sooner. Someone who is learning how to fight with punches and kicks will take longer to reach the application level compared to boxing.
