Bodywork wrote:I don't do Daito ryu.
Tom wrote:Chris Fleming wrote:Ok then, while I have not done pro MMA, I have done full contact sparring with people, usually friends, classmates or guests who were willing to mix it up to develop their fighting skills. I find that my punching techniques from xing yi worked much better and much more powerfully than any kind of boxing or pseudo-boxing my partners tried.
That's good--being able to maintain your xingyi frame and techniques in full-contact sparring, instead of changing into boxing or pseudo-boxing like some CMA folks do under pressure.
From my admittedly very limited experience with Dan, the CIMA his frame and shenfa remind me the most of is xingyi. Song family xingyi, actually.
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