Pipefighter,PhD wrote:XiaoXiong wrote:Dunno never tried. I don't jump people or whatever. I do throw people around pretty well. Mostly they seem to think that I'm really good at wrestling when we do stand up. Many have asked about my experience, but when I tell them what I've been doing they're like wtf?? It's often like they either don't believe me or don't believe that what I'm doing should work so well or that I should be that good. The Muay Thai and Kali coach is an Eric Paulson guy under Johhny Hendricks, and he got really mad, and won't wrestle with me anymore. So yeah mostly people just seem to think they should be better, or I shouldn't be that good.
Jess
I'm sorry, which eric paulson guy got mad at you and refuses to roll because you said your bacground with wrestling is actually IMA? Or he refuses to roll because you are using IMA in rolling?
This is very confusing to me as a wrestler, catch wrestler, with some time in Paulson's system. I'm curious what exactly happened that made a Combat Submission Wrestling coach with MT and Kali experience shy away from you. Especially if you are saying that you beat him rolling so he refuses to roll with you any more. Please, describe the encounter!
XiaoXiong wrote: It's often like they either don't believe me or don't believe that what I'm doing should work so well or that I should be that good.
XiaoXiong wrote:Well first he and all his students couldn't take me down in free sparring and I got some good takedowns some was mad. He started cheering for people whenever they'd spar with me. Then we were rolling in jits and I got a good closed guard with a nice hand deep in the collar. He stood up in my closed guard and when I grabbed for the choke he slammed me on the mat, which knocked the wind out of me and is strictly forbidden, then he punched me in the balls and talked some shit to the effect of, " remember that I always win".
Jess
johnwang wrote:In order to make anything truly belong to you, you have to take it apart, understand it, put it back together any way that you want to.
XiaoXiong wrote:It was actually a good experience. I often look at bjj like ok this is a game, not real self defense, but that particular moment changed my perspective permanently. We all knew not to do that. When he broke the rules willfully, I remembered that it should be real self defense, and its up to me to make it such.
Jess
Dmitri wrote:I love how a thread with title "Mysterious Taiji Power" came to talking about being slammed from closed guard and punched in the balls.
The difference wasn’t necessarily my posture, but the way the shoulder allowed me to connect to him more powerfully than with the broad surface of my chest. The shoulder represented a narrow point through which I could direct my “base” or my weight—neither word is appropriate, yet they are closest I can think of without using the word “energy”—a term I despise because of its mystical martial arts connotations.
ors wrote:OK Jess!
Here is his teacher, Li Jingwu:
Do you think that they do the same thing, or not? If they do the same thing, why the reactions of their partners differ so much? If they don't do the same thing, which one is better?
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