Wing Chun VS Choy Lee Fut VS Northern Shaolin

[dippedappe]

well I've heard that the reason that they do forms like that is for conditioning and the starnge movements are to conceal some of the applications.

Not entirely true.

They do the forms for the same reason as any style do forms. To learn and rehearse combat-movements and all that. But they do not fight like they do forms.

And the strange movements are generating a lot of power. Someone once told me that it was "power hidden in elegance".

[Goju_boi]

well I'm just saying what I read in a issue of blackbelt magazine

[dippedappe]

well I'm just saying what I read in a issue of blackbelt magazine

That's odd...weird. Maybe I have misunderstood what the magazine wrote. I don't know.

[Goju_boi]

it was in a recent issue of the magazine

[Infrazael]

well I've heard that the reason that they do forms like that is for conditioning and the starnge movements are to conceal some of the applications.

Not entirely true.

They do the forms for the same reason as any style do forms. To learn and rehearse combat-movements and all that. But they do not fight like they do forms.

And the strange movements are generating a lot of power. Someone once told me that it was "power hidden in elegance".

Elegance is merely a byproduct of CERTAIN techniques that ACTUALLY WORK.

Elegance should NOT be present for elegance's sake. Look at Tai Ji; the movements are done because THEY WORK. Purposely making a system or form "elegant" is a TRAVESTY to martial arts IMO.

[Goju_boi]

"Purposely making a system or form "elegant" is a TRAVESTY to martial arts IMO."

a good example of that is that XtremeMartualArts stuff.

[Infrazael]

Which is why I talk crap about XMA all the time.

[Goju_boi]

lol,I've kind of noticed.I don't mind seeing it though,but I don't think I would practice it.

[elbows_and_knees]

Elegance is merely a byproduct of CERTAIN techniques that ACTUALLY WORK.

Elegance should NOT be present for elegance's sake. Look at Tai Ji; the movements are done because THEY WORK. Purposely making a system or form "elegant" is a TRAVESTY to martial arts IMO.

Not because they work, but because they CAN work - nothing is absolute. This is why you will find XMA guys out there who could beat TMA. At the core of what they do is the same basic technique that TMA learn. The problem with XMA isn't the flash, but the training method - they ONLY train for XMA related competitions and such. I bet I could take an XMA guy, train him for the ring and he'd hold his own, using his techniques. They key is in the training method, not in the style.

[Goju_boi]

I know they could hold their own.Those people are heavily conditioned.