Do you want to make love to an abstract girl, or to make love to a real girl?
Is practicing a stealing step by yourself abstract?
Do you want to make love to an abstract girl, or to make love to a real girl?
Steve James wrote:Is practicing a stealing step by yourself abstract?
johnwang wrote:I truly don't know who can punch harder, the Baji master, or the Chen Taiji master.
I was very young when I started with fencing and very young when I quit fencing(6-9years old) The head coach of the fencing club was an old gentleman who everyone just called 'Maestro' cause he was not only a teacher but also an Olympic sabre fencing champion. As I recall there where never any talks about 'cutting heads off and pierce bodies' in that club, of course it was all practiced as a sport so maybe therefore the no need to talk about cutting of heads. The Maestro was considered one of the best fencing masters in the world, his skill came of course from sparring and competing. So I agree with JW to a big extent about concrete training......But then the concrete training can get a little too concrete... The fencing club shared the facility with a jujutsu club, one day I saw a couple of guys in Gi's come rushing out from the gym to jump in to a car and quickly drive away, I noticed blood on the ground, turned out they had been practicing with a big kitchen knife and someone's ear had been cut off.johnwang wrote:Why do you even want to train
- broadsword if you don't try to learn how to cut your opponent's head off?
MaartenSFS wrote:Modern fencing is a far cry from proper sword fighting, even more so than Taekwondo is from unarmed fighting. It's a sport.
The Maestro at the fencing club was of the early days of modern fencing so he might actually have had knowledge about how to handle more 'live' swords. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_GarganoMaartenSFS wrote:Modern fencing is a far cry from proper sword fighting, even more so than Taekwondo is from unarmed fighting. It's a sport.
robert wrote:johnwang wrote:I truly don't know who can punch harder, the Baji master, or the Chen Taiji master.
If you categorize CMAs into internal and external there is a whole range in between the two. It's like temperature - there isn't just hot and cold, those are the extremes; there is also warm, lukewarm, cool, and so on.
Some Baji looks pretty internal.
robert wrote:Some Baji looks pretty internal.
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