dspyrido wrote:what is the missing element from IMA?
edededed wrote:.
- Kung fu? Weird and strange - perfect!
Others will choose others for other choices.
Giles wrote:but I don't try and be all things to all people. Most people who come for a trial lesson don't stay...
...it tends to fall between two stools.
Of course, this could apply to many traditional martial arts, not ony IMA. Any ideas what could be more IMA-specific, without getting too abstruse for a ‘normal’ person with no previous experience in the field?
dspyrido wrote:These are sensible answers... what's going on?
Do you think people are drawn to famous fighters in the hope of just self defense?
I can't imagine too many people walking into a 1st class saying "I want to be #1 in ufc" or "I just want to get fit and this is the only option".
I know I started martial arts because I had to learn to protect myself but as a kid I did not choose where to train.
What draws late teens and adults to start & why would they want to try out cma/ima or whatever? Do people really wake up one day and say ''I want to be bruce lee?"
johnwang wrote:If you just try to develop skill through the Taiji form, your range of skill development will be limited. How to develop the complete range of a certain Taiji skill is not clear.
For example, if you try to develop Taiji "diagonal fly" as a tool in your toolbox, will you cover the following area?
- Control your opponent's back leg.
- Control his leading leg.
- Let him to sit on your upper leg as bench.
- Use your knee to press behind his knee.
- Push on his waist.
- Push on his chest.
- Push on his neck.
- Twist on his chin.
- Press on his forehead.
- Pull on his forehead.
- reverse head lock on his neck.
- lift up his leading leg.
- ...
If you teach someone "diagonal fly" as a principle. do you think he will be able to figure out all these detail? If you think he can't, then what's missing in the Taiji training?
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