Re: Disciple of Chen Zhonghua wins a Muay Thai Gold Belt
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 10:38 am
Well, all I can say is good on him. Yeah, maybe tcc to his muay thai and sanda to another level. At any rate, disciple or not, he's not an example of someone who "studied just tcc from a young age." And, if he didn't need his prior muay thai, sanda, or mma training, then it's amazing that Chen tcc hasn't produced hundreds of guys like him before this. This is what we should have been seeing all along.
I applaud the guy. I'm just a bit jaded. I think people are talking about him only because he's a student of Chen style tcc, and that it's in the context of all the negative publicity surrounding the relevance and effectiveness of cma. I.e., all the questions raised by people like Xu.
Maybe it'd be interesting to know what he means by Chen's "gas field" (:)), but it would make more sense for Chen to challenge Xu than for Yang to do so. I'm also interested to know more about "practical boxing." Is it something that Chen developed before this? Was Yang the first student to train it? And, how will it be passed down? Will the training be similar to what people had already been doing?
Choosing the term "practical" is also interesting. It reminds me of Dan Doherty's "Practical" tcc, which is much older and has plenty of fighters.
I applaud the guy. I'm just a bit jaded. I think people are talking about him only because he's a student of Chen style tcc, and that it's in the context of all the negative publicity surrounding the relevance and effectiveness of cma. I.e., all the questions raised by people like Xu.
Maybe it'd be interesting to know what he means by Chen's "gas field" (:)), but it would make more sense for Chen to challenge Xu than for Yang to do so. I'm also interested to know more about "practical boxing." Is it something that Chen developed before this? Was Yang the first student to train it? And, how will it be passed down? Will the training be similar to what people had already been doing?
Choosing the term "practical" is also interesting. It reminds me of Dan Doherty's "Practical" tcc, which is much older and has plenty of fighters.