The other thread about this was a little ignornant. The actual fight was very clean with no egos.
I talked to the instructor after class. I said that in real fights stances can be dangerous. He said that stances can be used to issue more power in strikes and have greater balance. He agreed to spar full contact this time. (i was very respect full and didn’t say “kung fu sucks!!” or anything like that. )
We started off. He was in a stance with his front knee bent and he had his front arm up and his back arm at his stomach. I threw some jabs at him then backed off and he came in after me and walked right into a left hook. He fell down. He did not go unconcious. His legs just fell out and he was dazed. He was fine.
We talked some more and i said that sparring was the best way to develop you skills. He agreed but said that sparring could also develop bad habbits of tagging each other.
There was no egos and just pure sparring. It was a good experience for both of us.
why do i find it hard to believe that a master of anything would walk into a move as readable as a hook. Also why do i find it hard to believe that he went down and stayed down with it.
Kaga. I never said he was a master. I would say Shaolin tiger was much more skilled at fighting.
Why did he stay down? Well he was “almost knocked out”. Have you ever seen boxing where the guy gets hits, falls, tries to stand up but just is so dazed he falls back down again?
I havn’t did enough to rightfully say kung fu sucks.
I have a fight with a wing chun student coming up. Vertical Fist. We are arranging the fight in E-mail. I might get beat up this time. If i get beat up then i’ll post about it and talk about how i got KO’d.
It’s a combination of the person, style, and how much hard contact sparring they do.
When i fought shaolin tiger he was a real challenge. He does san shou. I couldn’t land any good shots. I’d say we did about 13 minutes of hard contact sparring. I was not able to hurt him. He landed some really hard roudnhouses on my leg. I absorbed a roundhouse with my arm and his shoe cut me.
He was not able to hurt me either and i managed to hit his mouth and he was spitting out blood every once and a while.
None of us were hurt other than minor cuts from punches and kicks. He did really good. I thought i was going to wipe the floor with him but he was more skilled than i thought.
