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Originally Posted by doubleouch  You know, the video looks impressive on first glance. Look deeper though and you see that it is cooperative land swimming. Not saying the guy can't fight, but this video gives you no evidence of it. It's all smoke and mirrors and glam. Most of what he shows could not be pulled off with a resistant partner. If it can, he's the only guy who can do it because I haven't seen anyone else do it. I think demos like this are bad for the martial arts. It's inauthentic. |
Those are pretty obviously drills, they're designed to familiarize you with skill sets and movements without risk of serious injury. But the grappling stuff(both regular and weapon retention) was obviously done with moderate resistance.
It's certainly true that your skill set will diminish under pressure, but even just one of those drills going "live" would result in the target getting horribly hurt.