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Originally Posted by ttruscott
Sorry TT, the attacker is stiff, unmotivated to make the kill and unbalanced in his attack. He also freezes on 'first touch' from his teacher...
It only makes the defender look like an amateur.
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Comments like this always amaze me. If both parties reacted at anywhere near full speed you wouldn't be able to see jack shit. The videos are designed so people can SEE them and draw concepts from them to incorporate into their own training. I've been known to freeze on contact from some of my instructors as well because if I continued to move they ramped things up to put a stop to it thus the only thing I learned was the teacher was working at my level not the other way around. All that aside though, it's easy to pick apart everything wrong from behind your keyboard, so PLEASE post a video of knife training you approve of, in the event no one on the net meets your criteria feel free to post video of you showing us how to do it correctly. After all if you note I said "their stuff is always thought provoking" IE: it makes me think and examine the material compared with my own experiences and training and thats all you can really ever expect from a video on the net.
You do need to realize that the idea to my posting this was to stimulate thought and conversation about the arts on the net, and then you need to step back and realize that some people on the net assert that Karate generates power the same way as Tai Chi.
