is hard blocking of kicks considered nei jia? seems more like shaolin? even MT? as for non compliance? please! no counter occurred until after the blocks and the assistant had stopped attacking and engaged in retreating, again without offering resistance / counters as he did. It's quite easy to perform big, wide, weird strikes on a dummy. The striking is piss-poor in fairness? like some spastic movement where he tries to perform the crawl swim stroke, the idea seems to be to over-whelm the opponent? But with what? the exact same type of downward slap each time? (Each time you strike an opponent you teach him! you know? unless he's a fukin dunce, and then you don't need martial arts, just a set of dumb-bells) and that monkey dance shit on return? Is that some sort of magic spell?
Is this an unfair assessment?
From my own limited experience, having lived in Ballymun in the 1990's (in the top 5 most violent estates in Europe) and more recently in Finglas-west (gangsta-land), and coached and trained in areas like "Oliver Bond" and "Marrowbone Lane" (the heart of crimeland) I've had the odd run in, in my teens having pole-spiked multi-coloured punk rock hairstyles ensured I was an "outlaw" that no cop would assist and every scumbag knew this too. (I still have knife scratches on my punk-rock leather jacket). Anyway, from that personal experience, that could make a decent novel, coupled with my international fight record in sanda and chinese wrestling, along with my coaching experience, all I can say is that punches are punches, kicks - kicks, and throws, well - throws.
Sure it's nice to kick someone over the bonnet of a car and simultaneously drop his pal with a well timed punch on the chin, but honestly, street encounters last seconds. And you always recall the absolute fear on the opponent s face on the street (something absent from professional fighters on the leitai). It's something primal... that look... "oh shit! I thought I was chasing a hare into a cave to discover it was a tiger".
When you hit them, as street-trained as they are, and ignorant of real martial skill, something deep down, a survival mechanism perhaps? , warns them, this ain't the usual saturday night "male ritual". (as another poster like to refer to it as) Dropping 3 lads within 10 seconds, and after, in perfect calmness suggesting they consider "what they would prefer to be doing on Saturday night?" spending it in a cell or in a club? sort of offers them the escape they desperately need, and sure as they "fuck off" they will cast a few insults (once a suitable range is generated for escape).
Now... in the ring / leitai against a pro (not a novice trying to ascertain if he has the stones to fight in the first place) you are fighting a lad who has trained like a demon for the past 3 months for this fight, on top of the years of serious training for other fights and competitions over the years. his whole universe is on the line. He'll fight like you've broken into his house. (some will even use "dirty tricks", you know the eye-gouging and suffocation the RSBD lads glorify but haven't the basic skills in timing, range and angle to pull off.)
Sure there's a ref, like a by-stander he might step in if shit gets real ugly.
Sure there's rounds, rounds that last 8-12 times linger than a "real fight".
Sure there's rules, there needs to be, because the power pro fighters can deliver is 10 times that of mere mortals, the perfection of timing, angle, range, leverage, targeting, ensures that, unlike the untrained, every blow or throw can be a show stopper.
Sure, there's no hail-mary-hay-makers, no stupid gaps, no issuing without adequate defense, no repetition of the same tired strike, combos baby! combos offensive or to counter or all mixed up.... combos of kicks, punches and throws that would bewilder and leave most CMA "masters" in a heap or in the morgue!
See, the thing is, on the street when you get floored, often after a few more token kicks the encounter is over, in a pro fight you are required to stand up again and re commence. (It's like having 8-12 "real fights" with the same lad who ain't pissed but at peak performance) During the encounter, inside the uninterrupted parts of the bout you are in various positions and within the opponents attempt at combos, real combos, not successive hail-mary-hay-makers... in other words you're having to deal with the most expert and continuous barrage of martial technique, technique without holding back, technique seeking to finish you, technique designed to be confusing and unreadable... feints, draws, rhythms... you name it, all the high-level shit the inexperienced haven't put the time into and so haven't a hope of pulling off. we are talking stuff they have never experienced , something totally beyond their universe of understanding. (its why its both so funny and sad to read their opinion on skillfulness... they're simply blind, like they say, they wouldn't recognize it if it slapped them in the face... literally! how sad?)
I've said it before... every fighter was once not a fighter, and while they trained before experience they all had their own fallacies about it. Every fighter recognizes this part of his learning curve. So when we hear non-fighters spout shit about deadly-no-rules martial arts that are not properly tested nor trained, we see clearly the bullshit.
Funny thing is, with all the thousands of modern fighters in sanda, mma, muay thai etc... not a single one, of even reasonable accomplishment, has ever suggested that complete knowledge and skill in martial arts can be derived from non-resistant, compliant training. Certainly there are compliant drills, and some fighters fight so often that they do not engage in heavy sparring to avoid injuries that may effect their livelyhoods. (but they fight, and know the difference).
I've asked for years here, off those who shun combat sports as a way to gain relevant skill, to provide two clips to settle the matter, the first to demonstrate their preferred non-resistant training method and the second to show how the skill it trains is used in a full contact competition. Surely if combat sports are "less skillful" it stands to reason that they should have no problem entering such a test? They don't have to win even, I can accept we all have good and bad days, still over the "vastness" of a round or two, surely there is opportunity?
This challenge has never been met! Why?