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HOW CAN YOUR SYSTEM WORK IF YOU DON'T PRACTICE FULL SPEED AND POWER LIKE IN MMA?
"Get
a demo up on youtube, which is against someone who is trying to knock
the crap out of one of your students - ie full contact and power. At
the moment all I see are typical fancy moves that will only work
against a willing training partner. In short, I see nothing realistic
in your clips so far. I will happily change my opinion if I see your
system working against a "non-compliant" partner."
A. The effectiveness of this system is undeniable when you touch hands with one of the upper belts. Your
problem is equating full force/full contact with "uncooperative." In contact flow we
allow people to do whatever they want and it's easier for us when they move
at full speed. We practice at full speed with each other but not full force, because our only targets are lethal targets and we're training exclusively to attack them and defend them. That's all we do. We're not interested in takedowns, arm bars, knockouts to the head or even breaking the ribs with a perfect punch. However if someone is a powerful, highly skilled striker/grappler really looking to "prove" something and do you damage, and "finessing" them would be difficult, dangerous or impossible do you really think we want to play the same game to see who can "win?" Full force and speed for us while going for combat
targets is not "knocking the crap" out of someone, it's maiming them
for life when your own life is in danger. Not something you choose to do unprovoked. Why would you train any other way if your goal is survival and not "winning" a match or a fight? As an adult of legal age, why would you voluntarily grapple, submit, wrestle, lock or otherwise violently and completely subject your body directly to someone larger/stronger than you bent on your destruction, especially when it's exactly what they'd want you to do back to them? Is fighting really a game that ordinary sensible adults should play? Competitive professional bare-foot athletes with half-gloves and restricted strikes/targets duking it out is one thing. In real life when adults fight it's called "war," something no mature person wants, looks forward to or "enjoys."
If on tape you still can't tell the difference it's because
we're highly skilled at manipulating balance and it looks like a sloppy
mess despite their best intentions. It's really not necessary to risk injury to see what's going on. As soon as you feel it, you get it instantly. But that's fine if you're not convinced. We're not going to please everybody and we don't care if people can't get it from a video. We're not remotely interested in "throwdowns" either.
[edited and modified from a youtube post].
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"Get a demo up on youtube, which is against someone who is trying to knock the crap out of one of your students - ie full contact and power. At the moment all I see are typical fancy moves that will only work against a willing training partner. In short, I see nothing realistic in your clips so far. I will happily change my opinion if I see your system working against a "non-compliant" partner."
A. The effectiveness of this system is undeniable when you touch hands with one of the upper belts. Your problem is equating full force/full contact with "uncooperative." In contact flow we allow people to do whatever they want and it's easier for us when they move at full speed. We practice at full speed with each other but not full force, because our only targets are lethal targets and we're training exclusively to attack them and defend them. That's all we do. We're not interested in takedowns, arm bars, knockouts to the head or even breaking the ribs with a perfect punch. However if someone is a powerful, highly skilled striker/grappler really looking to "prove" something and do you damage, and "finessing" them would be difficult, dangerous or impossible do you really think we want to play the same game to see who can "win?" Full force and speed for us while going for combat targets is not "knocking the crap" out of someone, it's maiming them for life when your own life is in danger. Not something you choose to do unprovoked. Why would you train any other way if your goal is survival and not "winning" a match or a fight? As an adult of legal age, why would you voluntarily grapple, submit, wrestle, lock or otherwise violently and completely subject your body directly to someone larger/stronger than you bent on your destruction, especially when it's exactly what they'd want you to do back to them? Is fighting really a game that ordinary sensible adults should play? Competitive professional bare-foot athletes with half-gloves and restricted strikes/targets duking it out is one thing. In real life when adults fight it's called "war," something no mature person wants, looks forward to or "enjoys."
If on tape you still can't tell the difference it's because we're highly skilled at manipulating balance and it looks like a sloppy mess despite their best intentions. It's really not necessary to risk injury to see what's going on. As soon as you feel it, you get it instantly. But that's fine if you're not convinced. We're not going to please everybody and we don't care if people can't get it from a video. We're not remotely interested in "throwdowns" either.
[edited and modified from a youtube post].