If you are asked to give a demo in some MA event, but you don’t want to demo forms. What will you demo? Do you think to demo “combo drills” may be one option?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEwDBCv41rQ
Any suggestion?
Chin Na always makes a good demo piece.
Weird classical weapons that people are not familiar with are big deal for viewers (Kwan Do, hook swords, triple section staff, whip chain etc.)
Lion Dance open and close with a tricky Choi Chang, maybe a really up high one.
Attack/Defend drills.
Light spar, full flavour demo.
And of course, you can’t go wrong with a few parlour tricks and feats of strength!
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1230676]Chin Na always makes a good demo piece…Attack/Defend drills…Light spar,[/QUOTE]
If you don’t have demo partner and you are alone by yourself, these kind of demo won’t be possible.
What can you do if you are “solo”?
if you are solo, i think people like to see either forms, or breaking things with loud yelling. if you are solo and dont want to do forms, it becomes less options.
I think a good demo solo would also be weapons feats. such as cutting, or spearing/bowshooting accuracy, etc.
in your case if you have partner throwing i think is a great demo.
Always have a team, because it is better to play with a team than with yourself
[QUOTE=lkfmdc;1230692]Always have a team, because it is better to play with a team than with yourself[/QUOTE]
Bwaaaaahahahahaha!
[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1230681]If you don’t have demo partner and you are alone by yourself, these kind of demo won’t be possible.
What can you do if you are “solo”?[/QUOTE]
Ask for a volunteer to help you demo applications.
[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1230681]If you don’t have demo partner and you are alone by yourself, these kind of demo won’t be possible.
What can you do if you are “solo”?[/QUOTE]
That’s what you need to ask yourself.
What can you do that 99.999% of the people in the room can’t?
Inviting audience members into demonstrations can be fun so long as you aren’t using them as dummies to toss about. 
I have noticed that when you ask people to follow along with you, they compete amongst themselves and have fun that way, so leading a drill or series of drills that gets the audience interested in doing it can be fun.
Also, feats of strength, feats of physics and maybe some breaking. These are interesting to see.
Acrobatics are always a draw. Tumbling. That sort of thing.
What ever you do, don’t start gyrating and thrusting your hips at people. That never works out well.
[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1230681]If you don’t have demo partner and you are alone by yourself, these kind of demo won’t be possible.
What can you do if you are “solo”?[/QUOTE]
Stand on a Lei Tai and challenge all comers.
[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1230681]What can you do if you are “solo”?[/QUOTE]
Ask for a volunteer from the audience and teach them something.
lift something with your scrotum
[QUOTE=wenshu;1230725]lift something with your scrotum[/QUOTE]
That will certainly keep their attention…might not get many people to sign up for class though…
sing them this song
Zhanzhuang until you are booed from the stage.
I have personal experience in this.
[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1230672]If you are asked to give a demo in some MA event, but you don’t want to demo forms. What will you demo? Do you think to demo “combo drills” may be one option?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEwDBCv41rQ
Any suggestion?[/QUOTE]
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show or talk about one or two techniques
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yes, ask for a volunteer or two
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bring up theory and practice of those exemplary techniques
Forms are boring. well at least for me.
*Wushu-ized spear routine.
*take a traditional form and make it bigger and more expressive, pausing for the “oooh aaahh” moments.
[QUOTE=MightyB;1230775]
*take a traditional form and make it bigger and more expressive, pausing for the “oooh aaahh” moments.[/QUOTE]
like how banana asians pinch their eyebrows and widen their eyes trying to be more “expressive”, an “expressive form” looks just as pathetic.
srs man, u ever seen those kind of asian people? they face twitch and contort so much it looks like they getting paralyzed lol.
[QUOTE=bawang;1230796]like how banana asians pinch their eyebrows and widen their eyes trying to be more “expressive”, an “expressive form” looks just as pathetic.
srs man, u ever seen those kind of asian people? they face twitch and contort so much it looks like they getting paralyzed lol.[/QUOTE]
You ever seen a WWE wrestling match? Now that is some trumped up crap acting. lol
Also, each and every B rated action movie is over the top with the bad acting and so on.
[QUOTE=MightyB;1230775]*take a traditional form and make it bigger and more expressive, pausing for the “oooh aaahh” moments.[/QUOTE]
If you train style X and there is a style X event that every style X guys will be asked to give a style X performance. If you are the only person that no longer believe in solo form training, what can you contribute to that event?
Without demo partner, timing, opportunity, angle will have no meaning. Whether striking into the thin air or throwing an invisible opponent will have any meaning or not that is still debatable. The only thing left is balance and flexibiltty. May be balance and flexibility can be the main demo item here.
No matter what demo you may give “solo”, people will always say
- “It won’t work agaisnt a full resistent opponent”.
- “It looks good but can you fight?”
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[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1230847]If you train style X and there is a style X event that every style X guys will be asked to give a style X performance. If you are the only person that no longer believe in solo form training, what can you contribute to that event?
Without demo partner, timing, opportunity, angle will have no meaning. Whether striking into the thin air or throwing an invisible opponent will have any meaning that is still debatable. The only thing left is balance and flexibiltty. May be balance and flexibility can be the main demo item here.
No matter what demo you may give “solo”, people will always say
- “It won’t work agaisnt a full resistent opponent”.
- “It looks good but can you fight?”
- …[/QUOTE]
Get a volunteer and demo the difference between classical form and application, and explain how to make the translation between the two.
That way you can do something interesting while making your point.