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HITJKD · 09-26-2003, 05:57 PM

Burt,

Very astute observation on the differention between a persons stated training methodology and their actual methodology upon commencement of an alive sparring session.
It used to amaze baffle me back in my Karate-do days when I would see people train for hours punching from the hip etc. and yet once sparring began they would immediately abandon those methods and use what worked. I remember asking instructors at the time - why are people doing this?, only to be told it was "sloppy technique". I guess if we had just trained harder and for longer we would have been able to use the 'proper techniques'.
Even now, where I share space with a TMA karate school I overhear comments such as "well it just ends up looking like kickboxing" when referring to TMA karate types who have moved into the K-1 arena, implying once again that if they were just to 'train harder and longer" they could use the techniques as taught in class.
Some people just seem incapable of 'getting it'.

Thanks for the rest of your reply, interesting reading as always.

09-26-2003, 05:57 PM	#5 (permalink)
HITJKD Novice Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: B.C. Posts: 13 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Burt, Very astute observation on the differention between a persons stated training methodology and their actual methodology upon commencement of an alive sparring session. It used to amaze baffle me back in my Karate-do days when I would see people train for hours punching from the hip etc. and yet once sparring began they would immediately abandon those methods and use what worked. I remember asking instructors at the time - why are people doing this?, only to be told it was "sloppy technique". I guess if we had just trained harder and for longer we would have been able to use the 'proper techniques'. Even now, where I share space with a TMA karate school I overhear comments such as "well it just ends up looking like kickboxing" when referring to TMA karate types who have moved into the K-1 arena, implying once again that if they were just to 'train harder and longer" they could use the techniques as taught in class. Some people just seem incapable of 'getting it'. Thanks for the rest of your reply, interesting reading as always.