Re: How would you fix traditional martial arts?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (GODSTAR) wrote:
>This is one thing I don't get and I think where 98% of MMA wisdom is
>flawed... Getting a technique on someone who is resisting can be
>necessary where resistance becomes part of the technique...

You're missing the emphasis on resisting.
A realistic simulation of an attack is going to be aggressive and
forceful.  "Resistance" covers speed, strength and unexpected actions.

>AS I;ve said before a street-fighter is not specifically resisting
>they are attacking, they don't resist unless you make them and by that
>time it could be over if you followed another path...  This isn't the
>explaination but the reason that sometimes aikido guys and mysterious
>kung fu practitioners beat up groups of people...

Where do they beat up these groups of people outside of the movie
sets?

>A sparrer is not an attacker, unless you take your no belts and spit
>in their eyes till they really attack you you aren't ever going to get
>a wild human attacking in the dojo...

Why not add as much of this as possible and see what happens?  This
isn't something that you can do all the time, but it certainly is
doable.

>Dont think I don't admirer the gull of getting a few so called
>traditionalists who are hot headed to come try out there stuff in
>"no-rules" challenges... But remember they are not representative of
>people on an even keel and sometimes they win...

When?  Honestly, I've yet to see a TMA (non-groundfighting) from a
rules-based school do well when thrown into MMA fighting.

--Don--
The beatings will continue until morale improves.