But is a martial art defined by the movements that it uses, or the specific power generation those movements help you get? If you imitate a movement from style A using the shenfa from style B, are you doing A or B?
Chris McKinley wrote:RE: "Training on 'change' acknowledges that you haven't trained enough power.". Gotta call bullshit on this one. Power alone is never sufficient for real combat.
Chris McKinley wrote:RE: "Training on 'change' acknowledges that you haven't trained enough power.". Gotta call bullshit on this one. Power alone is never sufficient for real combat.
Changing means you don't have enough power to do things in a more simple way.
But is a martial art defined by the movements that it uses, or the specific power generation those movements help you get? If you imitate a movement from style A using the shenfa from style B, are you doing A or B?
Skill in CMA, particularly in IMA, means that one can generate power disproportionate from their size. Training on 'change' acknowledges that you haven't trained enough power.
Chris McKinley wrote:Dan,
RE: "Aren't we really talking semantics.". No, we're not. Or at least, I'm not. In fact, it is more the bit of linguistic legerdemain to impose a conceptual equivalency between...
RE: "Softness, control, the ability to change their force, and ...wait...the ability to generate penetraining power is still all power.". No, it's actually not. You might be making the argument that those things are all within a definition of power as the "ability to act or produce an effect" *, whereas the rest of us, and certainly I, are using the more common and contextually-appropriate definition of power as "physical might" *, or as I might addend it, the ability to deliver force through contact. Even if one changes the definition of power to the one you are using, then his statement, "Training on 'change' acknowledges that you haven't trained enough power", still doesn't make sense because it now would contain an internal inconsistency, since being able to change would then be itself a form of power.
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chimerical tortoise wrote:one can generate power disproportionate from their size.
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