CaliG wrote:He doesn't advocate hitting and resisting at 100%, his term aliveness refers more to timing and unpredictability. (In fact he encourages "slow rolling.")
His accusations of TMA isn't really against TMA as much as it's an attack on people not using "aliveness" (yes I know you don't like the term, but to me it just refers to live training).
On the DVD this is from he tells instructors to do and experiment, for example take a karate class and just teach fixed patterns, forms and stances and then take a different karate class and only teach them things where all the drills are alive. (That is instead of a fixed pattern of punch, punch, kick, you could have punch, pause, punch, kick, kick, so your opponent has to be aware of what's happening instead of just letting muscle memory do the work.) Then after a month have the two classes try their stuff on each other and see what happens.
He also teaches stick fighting, but from what I gather he teaches the techniques and has his students use them rather than learn all the forms, stepping patterns and 2 man drill etc... For example it would be like teaching Xingyi and just teaching 5 fists and its principles and having someone use them boxing style (but not restricting them to just the 5 fists) rather than have someone stand in santi for a year etc...
I agree he knows how to market his stuff, but I also think his ideas explain why MMA fighters develop their skills fast. Anyway don't take his attack on Asian TMA too personally, at the end of the day it's just some food for thought on training methods.
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