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Here’s the thing. People keep pointing to perfectly good examples of Chinese martial arts that fit his nebulous criteria for “effectiveness” and he either just outright ignores it or adjusts the standards in the first place.
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The video is of a man flapping his arms on a roof. I can send you video of old men playing the guitar on a roof, guys jumping doing back flips off of roofs. Forget what the French are doing jumping from roofs to roofs… none of this conveys a knowledge of martial arts.
There’s always the newbie who enters a gym and feels compelled to do some high kicks… to let everyone know they can do high kicks… usually the insecurity of a TMAer changing schools.
The flipping, high kicks. Means nothing. Shows little.
Doing less but showing more would be break falling and demonstrating getting up with posture, sprawling. Some nice mechanical shadow boxing… with hip and knees and shoulder and wrists all connected. Good use of elbows.
These things, while less glamerous, show more… but even they don’t reveal one’s ability, just hints at their level of training, understanding.
I haven’t redefined the standard. You can’t get fight credit without fighting. You can’t show form, shadow boxing, bag work and make the claim “I can”… until you go and do it yourself. Then you have a standard. And it will automatically improve. And you can monitor it.
You don’t know what I’m talking about, because you haven’t.
