In some ways I am on the fence on this issue. On the one hand you do have alot of wannabe or neverwas CMA players bringing really stupid techniques to the table. On the other hand you have the same amount of Grapple players that can’t see beyond their system either. So if something is inovative they don’t see it working in their paradigm(this is pronounced pa-ra-dime, not pa-ra-dig-um).
I, for one, am really sick and tired of reading the stupid dim mak and neck strike posts. CMA students please STOP mentioning this. There is so much more about CMA that can’t be said because it has to wade through all this drivel. Most striking Kung fu is about controling and maintaining a perimeter. Lets talk about that instead.
The other thing that kills me here is exactly WHY they give a **** at all. The whole thread was a giant self patting on the back. If we are so lowly then why are they giving it a second thought. And, before you answer, keep in mind the thread was filled with only a handfull of people. It was, for the most part the rant of just a few.
I totally agreee on the magazine statement. Lately the magazines have been on a monk fetish. You see the technique articles here and there. Few and far between. And sometimes they aren’t any good. Which brings me to this next comment. The magazines are seemingly trying to keep chinese martial arts very, for lack of a better word, Chinese. The non asian features are only token in comparison. There are so few non asian CMA players in this country? Not to knock the chinese at all. This is where the our arts came from. But, I think at this point it has grown larger than one country or one people.
