[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;1054827]Indeed AND if I was genetically predisposed to a strong grib, even more so.
But here is the thing, even in TCMA circles, how many tiger claw guys are there?
Quiet a few if one inculdes all the systems that have the tiger claw and all of them train the tiger claw, but how many, even in anecdotes, have the “real” ™ Tiger claw?
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Good point.
When one thinks about this, one must ask, how many of the Tiger Claw guys have had access to real deal masters to start with, and how many trained with the same dedication as you, and others like you, have during the past decades?
I guess it is a question of having the dedication and being lucky enough to find a sifu who can actually teach you the methodologies in a correct, concise and multi-level manner.
Unfortunately nowadays, it is very difficult for people to have this long term view and training dedication regarding an art that will give one benefits in a relatively longer term than one can find with other more modern MAs.
Then there is again the question of finding genuine instruction in a world of TCMAs where the general quality of instruction is so poor that schools of just fair quality instruction, occupy the top of the pyramid, at least in most of what one sees in the “public domain”.
So, we end up with Tiger Claw practitioners who do not have the “claw”. SPM practitioners who lack the Internal body unity to manifest maximum shock power; we have WC practitioners who cannot handle all ranges of combat, and are not familiar with the deeper aspects of concepts such as softness, sensitivity etc.; and so on.
So in the end, we have a situation that TCMA schools of just “acceptable” quality are seen as the benchmarks, while the very, very few top level TCMA schools fly under the radar, so to speak, because ironically even most of the people who call themselves TCMA-ists do not, for lack of reference, recognize the real deal kwoons, even when they are lucky enough to come across them.
The situation is rather sad, but hopefully through forums like this the lesser known aspects of the TCMA practices can be viewed and “studied”, so that the TCMA community can become better familiarized with the lesser known aspects of o the various kung fu methodologies:).
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