Dmitri wrote:I'm an older guy rolling with younger and mostly bigger/stronger folks, so I pretty much have to work around pressure vectors. (Plus, 20 years of tai chi also embedded the same ideas into my body...)There's also the fact of working within a certain framework, so there are things not allowed. So how does the grappling change if you introduce other forms of resistance?
Working within confines of a framework is a given in any training/MA scenario, even in Systema . So I'm not sure what you mean here by "other forms of resistance"
Yep. having just turned 60 I can relate to that... and I think that is one good thing to come out of TCC training.
To an extent, yes. I mean, there is usually a purpose to any drill, so a framework will reflect that. And the framework can relate to many things - speed, levels of contact, specific moves only, etc. But where you have stylistic or similar restrictions, how do you learn to work against someone not bound by those restrictions? If you want to, that is. I guess plenty of people in anything art are just happy doing what they are doing.
When not working from a style base, there are no restrictions, other than safety concerns, of course. But in either case, the challenge is always how to make training as "real" as possible without the risk of serious damage. I'm always interested to see how people approach this, as there always has to be a level of compromise somewhere.
For me, the ultimate aim is to be as "free" as possible in terms of actions or response, which feeds back into the principle approach.