I met Vincent in Thailand after studying with various teachers there as I went to study krabi krabong and bare knuckle muay. It depends on the teacher as some dont care about functionality only surviving the system and maintain it and teach like an old static art or just as an exercise as in alot of videos and vcds we see. Vincents work in the thai martial arts is unparalleled and voluminous. His work really is specialized in functionality and combatics, so although he researchs it like a scholar. He personally specializes in this one area all the wayto and including military muay systems as well as from other countries including burma,cambodia, phillipines,etc. He is best to answer your questions in detail but he staggered me especially with the krabi krabong material. But in the end it all made sense. Alot of older masters who really taught it with a functional eye are slowly dying away(or have died away) and it seems replaced by younger masters who know the material but dont seem to know the keys of how to make it work in real time(this is my view from studying with some of them). I sought personally to learn them toward usage and function and its there--it just needs to be sought out. Its great because Vincent inherited alot of old texts from the masters which he wil use in his books--one on bare knuckle and the other on weapons. To join the email newsletter, you have to send him an email at
blackdiamondcobra@yahoo.com. I beleive the email newsletter will come back up soon. Hope this helps.