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Originally Posted by Mike Brewer
You're always welcome.
I imagine a thread dedicated to people's experiences with Vunak would draw out as many critics as anything. I'm not going to subject anyone to that discussion again.
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Most of the criticism of Paul I've read or heard has been positive. I've heard that he has a great game, and he is a friendly person to be around.
The criticism I've heard was mostly about Paul's students and whatnot. I've heard criticism that many of them are un-athletic people looking for a "quickie" system that won't involve a lot of training, but instead depends on "dirty tactics."
And that criticism wasn't about ALL of his students, either. Just that he seems to attract a lot of peole who fit that description.
I don't know much about Paul, or his students, myself.
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But, when a guy I trained with and I were stickfighting regularly, and suffering for it, I found I was quickly better at dealing with my sparring partners punches and kicks when we were later boxing. We were fighting with semi-padded weapons, and they really hurt like hell. I've never fought with completely unpadded sticks - I'm not sure it's necessary. If I were LEO I might do it a few times - just so I'd feel better dealing with stick blows and whatnot in the field. But for what I'm looking to do, the semi-padded sticks are punishment enough. A head-shot knocked my buddy to the floor, and a hand shot once crippled up my hand for almost a month - for my interests it was contact enough.
It definitely increased our speed and reflexes boxing, and it increased our courage when boxing, too.