the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

johnwang wrote:

Bao wrote:

Trick wrote:Now days I’m not really interesting in free-sparring anymore,

Me neither. I don't bother about "fighting" or think in those terms nowadays.

I still love sparring. But I don't like to spar with my own students. My main interest in sparring is to obtain a successful clinch in a fist flying environment. Most of the time I don't even care about the finish move. When I can find opportunity to enter and enter successfully, the amount of joy can make me smile in my dream for many nights. In sparring, there are something that I enjoy very much that even money won't be able to buy for me. Through the sparring process, I try to prove whether "anti-striking" is possible or not. I'll need a huge amount of data in order to prove it or dis-prove it.

Trick wrote:

MaartenSFS wrote:I didn't get a chance to finish my thoughts this morning but I wanted to add that now that I have learned pretty much everything that I wanted to learn and have some years of sparring and fencing under my belt and feel that I am competent enough I am becoming more interested in self-cultivation. Perhaps it's also because I spent so many years at the whim of other people's schedules and now there isn't a constant flow of training partners every day that I am naturally gravitating towards solo training like that. Or perhaps its because I trained so hard for so many years that I feel like training at that intensity now doesn't offer the same benefits now that I have progressed further and diversifying my regimen is the next logical step to further improve. I'm actually considering to add some Qigong like exercises to my curriculum. When I busy preoccupied with learning how to fight I could never bring myself to train it much..

You studied LiuheXinYiquan & Xingyiquan ? Hold on to the basics from these MA’s and daily polish them, find some friends with who you can practice sparring exercises , that’s all the Qigong you need

johnwang wrote:

Bao wrote:

Trick wrote:Now days I’m not really interesting in free-sparring anymore,

Me neither. I don't bother about "fighting" or think in those terms nowadays.

I still love sparring. But I don't like to spar with my own students. My main interest in sparring is to obtain a successful clinch in a fist flying environment. Most of the time I don't even care about the finish move. When I can find opportunity to enter and enter successfully, the amount of joy can make me smile in my dream for many nights. In sparring, there are something that I enjoy very much that even money won't be able to buy for me (such as move in with a successful clinch without being kicked or punched). Through the sparring process, I try to prove whether "anti-striking" is possible or not. I'll need a huge amount of data in order to prove it or dis-prove it.

marvin8 wrote:UFC has featured high level grapplers (e.g., olympic and international champion wrestlers, judoka, BJJ, etc.) against other MAists, since Nov 11, 1993. Fights can be found on the internet.