Quigga wrote:Are you a trickster yourself, hiding behind thinly veiled jealousy and laziness to expose and correct others?
What stops you from starting your own interactive magic show where people get to enjoy the experience of something they never witnessed before? - Some walking away entertained and thrilled, some intrigued and gaining a little skill, some absolutely fascinated and ready to dive all the way in.
What I hear is a lot of complaining about the way things are and very little on how they could be improved.
The broadening of discussion show that maybe things aren't as simple as one would like them to be. On a car racing board, would you expect people to only talk about engines and how they work?
GrahamB wrote:
Excellent book on the subject:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Conjuring-Asia ... 101&sr=8-1
This book charts the history of modern magic across India, China and Japan, analyzing representations in the cultural imagination of the West.
Rhen wrote:Someone who does Tai Chi Chuan and has actual combatative experience should be teaching Tai Chi application especially vs MMA. Adam has not fought, will not fight, hides behind buddhism as if on moral highground, and has student who lost in MMA. Adam is overdue for a Xu Xiaodong fight many want to see. It's 2021 now, many fake masters have been debunked. It's Adam's turn to take a punch to the face for creating fantasy, when in turn he wouldn't be able to pull it off in the ring or cage. Shameful.
Quigga wrote:What's the point of concealing and hiding skill in modern times?
Doc Stier wrote:A classic example of the pitfalls inherent in choosing to tell all and show all publicly is the Gracie experience in the UFC. They initially defeated most opponents with their family system of BJJ, when outsiders were unfamiliar with the tactics, techniques and training methods of their art. But over time, these things were thoroughly revealed in the video record of their bouts against a wide variety of opponents. As a result, other fighters without any previous exposure to BJJ quickly seized the opportunity to replicate the Gracie's success by adopting their methods, subsequently defeating even the Gracie champions using their own techniques and strategies against them.
Thus, in the view of many traditional martial arts experts, for the sake of proving that they had an effective fighting system, and for the sake of generating short term competition income, they essentially gave their system away, along with any martial advantages it had prior to entering MMA venues. Unfortunately, there's no taking it back after letting the cat out of the bag!
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