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by madhadron 9y ago
This is the tip of a very large, complicated subject. Start by reading https://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/four_focuses.html https://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/four_focuses.html. Here we have two different ends conflicting. MMA is a sport, along with boxing, K5 and sansho and judo. Many of the Chinese stylists today are carrying on a cultural or demonstration tradition.
From that point of view, a martial arts instructor can be very competent at his job while not producing effective sport fighters. For example, many kids karate schools are very effective daycares. A seniors tai qi club may be an excellent way to get people moving and prevent injuries from falling. An MMA gym is a great place for young men to work through their testosterone driven haze. Why can't a martial arts school be treated like a Go studio or a chess club?
And if you depart from fitness for purpose, then you have problems. SEAL sentry removal techniques taught at an MMA gym or a kids karate school would be a disaster. A sport fighter teaching MMA at a seniors tai qi club is going to find a very uninterested audience. It goes the other way, too. A sport fighter training police is a problem because he is probably unaware of the laws governing use of force.
So what Xu has done is the equivalent of a kid from the boxing club going and beating up the chess club.
- dagw 9y agoSo what Xu has done is the equivalent of a kid from the boxing club going and beating up the chess club. The part you're missing is that this whole thing kicked off because kids from the chess club where going around claiming that chess was a better basis for fighting than boxing.
- gambler 9y agoWhere exactly was this claimed?
- cxseven 9y agohttps://youtu.be/5l_t70EG8E0 https://youtu.be/5l_t70EG8E0 Search Youtube for tai chi to see other hilarious examples, including some guy who claimed he could stop a train.
- gambler 9y agoIn the video I see some old guy pushing people. Nothing to do with what I asked. Where are the claims of superiority to other martial arts?