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Well, if we’re talking about that clip, there’s a lot to be said.
First off, we don’t know where he’s at in the art. We don’t know his experience lever, nor the rules. I some some good things and I saw some bad.
First off, he had a nice agressive attitude (all white guy). I understand why he was plugging away at the head, it’s harder to hurt a well conditioned fighter to the body with a protector on. Furthermore, if it was bare-knuckle, as the art was intended? A few of those straights would have ended it. He also was strong on his feet and reveresed a takedown attempt.
The stuff I didn’t like? Karate kicks, lack of lowline kicks and sweeps to set up throws and controls. Not a lot of angles or good counter-punching.
Xingyi training will teach you how to absorb or avoid a lot of your opponents power.
The fighting looked pretty basic. The thing that really stood out in my mind was a lack of whole body strategy. It wasn’t All weapons. It was punch-kick, re-set or bulling into the opponent rather than taking angles and attacking in the Xingi strategy. Ford has a point about the footwork.
I understand the gloves make it really hard to execute as well.
If you don’t believe me? One of Mr. Cartmell’s students who has full contact experience stated as much.
So you can throw Xingyi “tearing” and Quinna out the window.
As far as the linking form, I think the guy was just going for connection. No fa, just smooth body movement. Depends what he was working on.
I don’t know much about the clip, or the folks in it and I’m not really going to try and judge it too harshly. There’s been some interesting concerns and good points. I would hope you don’t judge the art by one clip.
BTW - R-O-T? Good to see you Enforcer. :rolleyes:
This thing’s getting filled up pretty fast though.