MaartenSFS wrote:Trip wrote:MaartenSFS wrote:
Please add me (Maarten-SFS) on WeChat and I can show several more clips. ...
They show 100% traditional techniques used against a resisting opponent (and my improvement as a fighter over time). (especially the last two clips which show me completely shake off the last remnants of my Sanda...
Those last clips will also show what TCMA combos look like.
I admittedly started with one-shots, but so does everyone. I've since improved a lot.
Hey Maarten,
I would love to see your fighting growth. But, I don't do WeChat.
Can you upload to Dropbox or Google Drive or similar formats like that?
Once loaded to Dropbox or whatever all you'd have to do is provide a link.
If you can't I understand but am really interested.
Unfortunately there is no other way. When I get back to the West in a year or so (still waiting on my wife's visa) I'll begin uploading to Youtube. I began sparring with the boxers again today so I hope that I'll have more videos soon, though I've regressed a bit since I didn't train at all for over two months and I've still got to take it easy. It may take a month or two before I have anything worth showing.
I'm curious about the boxers. Is it a gym, do they have any amatuers that fight etc.
Has the coach coached any succesful fighters or regular fighter in any format ?
Are we talking fight gym like we recognise in the West or is this more a bunch of enthusiastic hobby guys - which is cool of course.
You really need to train (or compete) with fighters and grapplers who have competitioon experience who can really test you.
I feel like that's what you're missing and it should straighten you out some more. Myself, Subitai and Niall have all done that on varying levels.
I have never met someone in KF who's done that and bangs on like you do about style - i think there's some grey area, and that it's a lot more personal/individual than is generally accepted; probably moreso in KF than other martial cultures. You don't yet know what you don't know (haven't experienced)
Higher level guys in striking, grappling and both will open your eyes A LOT. Make no mistake about it.
But it depends what level you're interested in reaching at the end of the day.
As we can see the fighting level of TCMA in China is pretty damn shit.
I'm also curious about this "epic" fight your master had in front of you.
I mean was it a fight in the same sense as that MMA vs. Tai Chi video from China ?
Where both people are serious about beating the other guy - that's a fight.. In my book, don't call it a fight unless it's a proper fight you know.
You see I can't help having the feeling that it was more like two guys putting on a bit of a sparring "show" for you with some contact.
It wouldn't be beyond the pale that these guys were interested in impressing you on some level, more than actually fighting eachother.
A lot of people who don't really know the world of serious competition can't appreciate the level and intensity of training and fighting involved.
At any rate, keep doing what you're doing, you're on the right tracks it just doesn't do you any favours being a dick to other KF guys training.