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Old 11-06-2003, 06:24 PM   #62 (permalink)
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do you need to drive your car at 100 miles per hour to know you can
Your logic is false. You know that you can drive your car at 100 mph because you've seen it done. Also, just because you know that your car is capable of traveling at 100 mph doesn't mean that you can safely operate it at that speed--analogous to the problem of people who train at a slow speed or in fragments of what they think a confrontation will be like and expect to be able to do everything when they're going full tilt.

I haven't seen any Wing Chun practitioners 'break bones' with their 'triple strikes' I've never seen anyone lifted three feet into the air with a punch. I've never seen anyone move things with their mind. While I remain receptive to things that I have not experienced, I know that some things are not seen because they do not exist.

Everyone knows that a takedown from a good grappler is hard to counter because they have seen the results time and again. Everyone knows that a boxer's guard is superior to a traditional karateka's hands-at-the-hips stance because they have seen what happens when you don't protect your face.

And, uh, stop feeding everyone your crap about breaking bones with your strikes. I've been hit by Wing Chun people in the past, and they generally just don't hit that hard. Even if they did strike with a particularly large amount of power, what makes the way that they hit so different from the other methods that tend not to shatter bone and pulverize flesh with each strike? Nothing. Get off your high horse and step into the real world.

Tolerance of your nonsense is growing thin around here.
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