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- Nov 28, 1999
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seminar can be good if they are use as a supplement to a full training. but when the only way to get training in an art is through seminar and seminar-trained techers you are losing what a full curriculum can offer. right now, i can safe to say *most* philippine art teachers are train by seminar. this teach the student that he does not have to be dedicated to a training plan. with almost no sparring at these seminar, he is being taught that he does not have to test his skill to become a teacher. yes a seminar will spread an art that people have no access to but we lose something when it happen. this is probably why when people join a philippine martial art school after coming from the seminar school approach (not just mine but some other people i know) few of them stay. the progression is to slow for them, the information is not fancy enough.
double stick is not the same as one stick. you can pat the opponent hand with the stick like with the hand, but the feeling is different. it dont "stick" to the opponenet the same. in combination attacks, a backhand with the hand is diffent feeling against the opponents face, than the butt of the stick and different from the tip of the stick. the distance is diferent, the angle you need to hit for power is different. you cannot witik the hand like with the stick because you are to close, and the damage is not the same.
i have box for 10 years i never seen a trainer that teach a sensitivity drill. i seen a wing chun people do it, and they dont compare to even a second year boxer who has been a lot of rounds. you learn sensitivity by experience. and yes sparring is not real fighting but it is mor realistic than tap-tap style training. i admit senisitvity can be taught slow-it should start that way, but as soon as they get it you put them against a real punch. if they never face it, they will never know how to defend from it.
you can disagree all you want, but any fighter or fighters trainer will tell you exceopt for skill development, there is no substitute for fighting but to do it.
double stick is not the same as one stick. you can pat the opponent hand with the stick like with the hand, but the feeling is different. it dont "stick" to the opponenet the same. in combination attacks, a backhand with the hand is diffent feeling against the opponents face, than the butt of the stick and different from the tip of the stick. the distance is diferent, the angle you need to hit for power is different. you cannot witik the hand like with the stick because you are to close, and the damage is not the same.
i have box for 10 years i never seen a trainer that teach a sensitivity drill. i seen a wing chun people do it, and they dont compare to even a second year boxer who has been a lot of rounds. you learn sensitivity by experience. and yes sparring is not real fighting but it is mor realistic than tap-tap style training. i admit senisitvity can be taught slow-it should start that way, but as soon as they get it you put them against a real punch. if they never face it, they will never know how to defend from it.
you can disagree all you want, but any fighter or fighters trainer will tell you exceopt for skill development, there is no substitute for fighting but to do it.