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Originally Posted by Tom Yum
but its time to explore something not so explored. Something deeper.l
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If you want to explore something deeper dig a hole and look in it. All TCMA's are is an efficent fighting system based on information gleaned from people who did nothing but fight and study fighting and body mechanics that is all.
All the mysticism is crap. People just don't want to admit that the system is based on such simple and evident mechanics that it can't help but work. The rest is just political and lineage crap that people add to protect their "rice bowls".
We see a lot of that here on these forums and we all see the shit pot it stirs up.
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Originally Posted by Tom Yum
but there's no other martial system that also teaches how to preserve and balance your body/mind.
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If you wanted to perserve and balance your mind and body then putting on a soldiers togs and trying out for SF is in the complete wrong direction. Why do you think the monks lived in temples. All the conflict of war and fighting are the complete opposite of what you just claimed you wanted to do. Do you want to be a holy scholar monk or do you want to be a martial fighter. These are two very diffrent sides to a coin and as the classics say "You can only have one treasure".
So which is it you want to have some spiritual expierence or do you want to learn how to fight. Modern marketing has misconstrued these two things into one in order to once again protect that "rice bowl" and sell charlatanisms to marks who will buy it. The Dillman's of the world ruin the fact that TCMA's are just a good SDF and fighting system they try to turn it into something greater than it is to appeal to the masses. People like that give real teachers a bad name and create trolls on forums like this who think that everything that has to do with TCMA's and everyone that has to do with them is full of crap. That is why some of the best sources and I say that in plural have been run off this forum.