johnwang wrote:
Sine you always control one of your opponent's arms, you can concentrate on dealing with his single free arm only. IMO, without using to control one of your opponent's arms principle, a CMA person will fight like a kickboxer.
An assumption based on "your" experienced in the styles you've learned.
Other methods and styles use different ways....
Ruthlessness (Chan)
Evade (Syim)
Pierce through (Chuen)
Intercept (Jeet)
https://www.baihepai.com/pak-hok-pai-li ... -siu-jong/Tibetan White Crane, like Hop Gar uses 4 main ideas expressed in its basic strategies
How they’re expressed varies depending on a practitioners skill and level of practice.
We speak of striking, as one of the basic methods of defeating the opponent.
IME one can control another’s movement "options" through position, distance and timing with out having to touch their body or control a limb directly.
With TWC the basic idea is not to block. To be able to hit the other in a range that they do not operate in.
If one is in range. they are either getting hit, or hitting.
If one does not understand how to control through distance, position and timing,
They might be in for an awaking by those that do.
Seems kinda basic, to relegate it to a western or eastern concept is strange.
A better way might be to look at it through the lens of functionality
Method, to the body (physical body? All specific methods as one body. Mind is the master, the main principle.
Application of the method is the mother. Because, what is derived out of oneself is the body. The way to maneuver the body is the method. What is directed towards the enemy is [the] application [of the method].
Therefore, the body, the application, the outside, and the inside are all prevailed by method. Only when one talks (of) method, it is about its body and application. Float a piece of bamboo on water, but [you] cannot make it sink. Throw a pearl on a tray, but you cannot stop it from spinning. The pearl would run left and right like a wheel, being pushed, pulled, let go and drawn.
An old argument concerning looking like kick boxing.
One that can only be settled by those claiming to practice their art.
answered my own questions long ago.
"White Crane very distinctive, geared towards fighting. The distinctive foot work coupled with what is called “long arm” made the style very effective in operating inside the kicking range and yet outside the punching range of most styles. The conditioning and training followed typical regimens that fighters use with specialized training unique to the style.
As a young teenager, later a young GI in the US Army I would have many encounters with people who practiced different styles correcting what I felt were misconceptions about CMA. In the traditional way the style white crane spoke through me in answer to their questions."