[QUOTE=Toby;890954]In the dummy clip… [/QUOTE]
What about this clip?
Shaolin Wing Chun Nam Anh Kung Fu - Wooden Dummy 108 Moves
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xcU0UExIxHs&feature=related
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What about this clip?
Shaolin Wing Chun Nam Anh Kung Fu - Wooden Dummy 108 Moves
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xcU0UE...eature=related
Bah, that’s puny, you should see mine.
EBMAS Wing Tzun Live - Budo Gala Stuttgart
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9G0EoS4Xtio
If those EBMAS guys would compete as much as the demo maybe those demos would mean something…
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;892157]If those EBMAS guys would compete as much as the demo maybe those demos would mean something…[/QUOTE]
Note to self: Shirtless demos at large arenas yield lots of students who know as little about martial arts as possible. To break it down, Shirtless + Kung-Fu + Demo = $$$
[QUOTE=couch;892239]Note to self: Shirtless demos at large arenas yield lots of students who know as little about martial arts as possible. To break it down, Shirtless + Kung-Fu + Demo = $$$
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Yep, pretty much.
[QUOTE=LoneTiger108;892142]EBMAS Wing Tzun Live - Budo Gala Stuttgart
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9G0EoS4Xtio[/QUOTE]:eek: Holy sht these guys are cool, and by cool I mean totally sweet. I’ve gotta wonder, some of those guys must learn acrobatics, like the protagonist from 1:45. I wonder if EBMAS teaches that? I also wonder how many of you guys use YGKYM as a fighting stance? 
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;892241]Yep, pretty much.[/QUOTE]
For me, I’m all for making some dough doing something you love. But you gotta keep it real. I have to teach (I have morals) tha r3al sk!llz to people and a lot of people don’t like that. They want to live in fantasy land and play volleyball in the middle of a TKD class. Or take their shirts off and demo back flips.
[QUOTE=couch;892268]For me, I’m all for making some dough doing something you love. But you gotta keep it real. I have to teach (I have morals) tha r3al sk!llz to people and a lot of people don’t like that. They want to live in fantasy land and play volleyball in the middle of a TKD class. Or take their shirts off and demo back flips.[/QUOTE]
Reality is subjective.
The reality is that the majority will probably never use H2H skills in a fight, even less will have to use them VS a trained fighter and the majority of “serious attacks” involve weapons.
To most people, the MA is a pass time, a hobby, a sport to do for fun and fitness.
Self protection MAY be in the back of their minds but since the vast majority have never truly faced a violent attack, they are happy with whatever crap they may be fed.
It’s funny that so many MAs refer to accessing the “lizard mind” or “reptile mind” as a method of catalyzing primal fighting instincts. The “reptile mind” is vastly different from the mammalian one: a reptile’s primal survival dynamic is “Freeze or Flee,” whereas a mammal’s is “fight or flight.”
Teaching adpative responses which are natural to humans should fall under mammalian responses, not lizard ones. Not only that, but most schools only teach one half of the dynamic, and 9 times out of 10 it ain’t the “flee/flight” response.
Looking at it from an aliveness vs. mimicry perspective, schools which teach set, choregraphed patterns and techniques are teaching a static, “frozen” dynamic… so I guess they remain true to at least one half of the “reptile mind…” :rolleyes:
If only more people would teach their students to properly identify and avoid threats… oh wait, that’s not Badass enough. 
It’s way more badass to pretend to be a reptile and learn half of reality.
How about No Mind?
No mind = no self = no problems.
LOL!
Love that “not badass” enough! 
[QUOTE=Xiao3 Meng4;892288]It’s funny that so many MAs refer to accessing the “lizard mind” or “reptile mind” as a method of catalyzing primal fighting instincts. The “reptile mind” is vastly different from the mammalian one: a reptile’s primal survival dynamic is “Freeze or Flee,” whereas a mammal’s is “fight or flight.”
Teaching adpative responses which are natural to humans should fall under mammalian responses, not lizard ones. Not only that, but most schools only teach one half of the dynamic, and 9 times out of 10 it ain’t the “flee/flight” response.
Looking at it from an aliveness vs. mimicry perspective, schools which teach set, choregraphed patterns and techniques are teaching a static, “frozen” dynamic… so I guess they remain true to at least one half of the “reptile mind…” :rolleyes:
If only more people would teach their students to properly identify and avoid threats… oh wait, that’s not Badass enough.
It’s way more badass to pretend to be a reptile and learn half of reality.[/QUOTE]
I always teach to flow with the force…
I do agree that, if one is going to teach higher mental aptitudes that we should focus on Mammilian/human ones, we are after all, the top of the food chain 
As for identifying threads and acting accordingly ie: awareness, I think that many “self defense” teachers don’t do that because they are either unaware of its importance or they don’t wanna come off as “paranoid” or making others “paranoid”.
One thing though, I don’t think reptians are “flight or freeze” types, at least not the ones I have seen.
The tend to be either flight or attack with no remorse type, no notion of “limits”, of course we are talking about PREDATORY reptiles just like we are referring to PREDATORY mammals.
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;892296]I always teach to flow with the force…
I do agree that, if one is going to teach higher mental aptitudes that we should focus on Mammilian/human ones, we are after all, the top of the food chain
As for identifying threads and acting accordingly ie: awareness, I think that many “self defense” teachers don’t do that because they are either unaware of its importance or they don’t wanna come off as “paranoid” or making others “paranoid”.
One thing though, I don’t think reptians are “flight or freeze” types, at least not the ones I have seen.
The tend to be either flight or attack with no remorse type, no notion of “limits”, of course we are talking about PREDATORY reptiles just like we are referring to PREDATORY mammals.[/QUOTE]
In the sense of predation, you have a point. I understand that the imagery put forward is the whole “cold blooded” idea… I’m a mammal, though, and while Predation and self-preservation strategies tend to be quite different, a (predatory) mammal’s predatory instincts are crazy good. Thanks for the thought, though. It’s given me more to chew on.
I don’t think teaching awareness, avoidance, and diffusion needs to instill paranoia, though… I think of it more as the maintenance of low stress levels, ie not get yourself into dangerous, high risk or stressful situations by having a certain level of awareness of them ahead of time. Paranoia to me conjures up images of heightened stress levels. It’s all about relaxing, no?
[QUOTE=Xiao3 Meng4;892301]In the sense of predation, you have a point. I understand that the imagery put forward is the whole “cold blooded” idea… I’m a mammal, though, and while Predation and self-preservation strategies tend to be quite different, a (predatory) mammal’s predatory instincts are crazy good. Thanks for the thought, though. It’s given me more to chew on.
I don’t think teaching awareness, avoidance, and diffusion needs to instill paranoia, though… I think of it more as the maintenance of low stress levels, ie not get yourself into dangerous, high risk or stressful situations by having a certain level of awareness of them ahead of time. Paranoia to me conjures up images of heightened stress levels. It’s all about relaxing, no? :)[/QUOTE]
I can speak from personal experience that many people DON’T wanna know all the dangers that surrond them, they prefer “blissful ignorance”.
Of course those people do NOT belong in the MA anyways, but the paradox is that the MA is full of them.
aah, blissful ignorance… the lubricant of choice for dishonest instructors.
Wing Chun Sparring & Fighting DVD trailer
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e6mR1KUnGfE
Finally, a new clip from the UK!
[QUOTE=LoneTiger108;892451]Wing Chun Sparring & Fighting DVD trailer
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e6mR1KUnGfE
Finally, a new clip from the UK! :D[/QUOTE]
Nice clip, where was the fighting?
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;892497]Nice clip, where was the fighting? ;)[/QUOTE]
Ah! You’ll have to ask the creators that one!
Listen, I started the thread to show the ‘latest’ not the ‘best’ or the most ‘brutal’.
Please, Sanjuro, show me your latest clip of good Wing Chun fighting!
[QUOTE=LoneTiger108;892528]Ah! You’ll have to ask the creators that one!
Listen, I started the thread to show the ‘latest’ not the ‘best’ or the most ‘brutal’.
Please, Sanjuro, show me your latest clip of good Wing Chun fighting! ;)[/QUOTE]
As soon as I can find one !
LOL !
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;892532]As soon as I can find one !
LOL ![/QUOTE]
I can’t wait THAT long
U know what I mean eh? :rolleyes: