windwalker wrote:Some systems emphasize foot work over number of hands, or hand speed,
not having to parry, intercepting over blocking or wrapping.
"slow" training part of conditioning to understand how to coordinate the mind/body through the transitions of movement.
Its not slow in use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McAIR1Fp2iM
Yes and those systems are good at getting knocked out because the foundation skills aren't taught any more. You can't expect just stepping off centerline to save you. Hand and foot speed (and effective parrying) have to be trained and not after 10 years of doing forms either. It either gets trained at the beginning like in the old days and you get better at it or it just gets ignored completely which is what happens the majority of the time in IMA.
And bagua isn't even the best at it. Kali arts like PTK have you moving offline from the beginning. You move fast and get faster, giving a heck of a workout.
It should be a reproducable technology like below, not shrouded in myth and theory.
One of biggest problems i see in IMA is being slow and soft is the only way and it ruins your fight potential. Being fast to some extent is a skill that can be taught but you have to learn to move fast because being fast is valued. Tim Waid and his people could literally complete two strikes with the stick or sword by the time I had completed one. Literally twice as fast. The foot work was trained AT SPEED and built from there. They could outflank you before you knew what was happening.