Styles only exist in our minds; people fight, not styles. With that said, who is to say what is and isn't an effective fighting style? Through my own experience, I'm not real keen on death touches and hurricane kicks, but saying that they don't ever work (maybe with the exception of the death touch) doesn't hold up. That is making what Daniel Howard-Snyder called a noseeum inference; basically "I don't see it so it's not there." I can with a good conscience say that jump backspin hurricane whatever is very complicated and unlikly to work, but you never know the efficacy of a technique without taking the person performing it into account. Do I think that hours of kata will make a great fighter, no. Do I think that if you spend a truck full of money learning the ultimate street fighting techniques packed into twelve easy lessons on video tape that you will be a baddass, no. But I can't make that decision for anyone because it is their choice how to train. There are no magic rules of the universe governing what will and what won't work outside of physics and kinesiology.
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