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Originally Posted by fwtaichi
You don't see a lot of this because Chinese martial artists as a general rule don't fight very well.
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Huh? If you mean that they don't train to fight in the ring, you are most likely correct. If you mean that they don't know how to fight, I'd say you are very wrong. It all depends upon your goals. If your goal is to compete your 'style' will look more like kickboxing regardless of what style you learn.
Chinese martial arts are very effective and I've crossed hands with some practitioners that are very scary indeed (my Shifu included). In a ring with rules that take away half the skills I've learned I prolly wouldn't do well, but take that guy that trains to fight in the ring and remove those rules, well...That would alter things dramatically.
Since the thread is about CMA's in real life and not the ring I would say that in a real life situation my art would be very effective.