Is he a tai chi guy or a practitioner of some other traditional kung fu style? I checked him out after your first post and the guy comes from a sanda backround. He sells himself as a shaolin monk, but that seems to be just PR. His crowning achievement is beating an over the hill Buakaw in one random kick-boxing promotion. Having said that, I am sure he is tough as nails and he would kill the self-taught mma dude, but that wouldn't have anything to do with traditional CMAs, right?
This kind of thing ,to me, comes down moving to be effective v moving to look a certain way. All humans when moving to be effective..run,climb, jump, fight...move fundamentally the same and look similar. Which is why a full contact fight of any kind always favours the person not trying to look like a certain style, but just trying to be effective. To be fair Chinese styles contain a lot of sound principles that if taken on board in a more relaxed manner and not forced to look a certain way can be effective. But they are principles that styles or anyone who fights will have also because humans that fight come to the same conclusions. Treating Chinese styles as special and mystical and forcing a Chinese style look is where it goes wrong. It's hard for people to get their heads around.
You fight as you train. It's easy to knock Tai Chi, especially if you've not trained in it. I'd remind everyone that a certain Conor McGregor defeated an MMA fighter with one punch. Didn't hear anyone saying that guy's style sucked.
That's simply not true. For example: - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/athletics/10309714/The-secrets-of-Mo-Farahs-success.html
Yes and no. I can use Wing Chun when I'm sparring. Stylistically you can tell it's WC. It's not hard. You can see Judo players using Judo too....
Anyone trying to look a certain way deserves the broken jaw. There may be some,but I've never known any TC guys who spar seriously and/or compete in/outside the ring who try to have a "look". They have more brains than that. At least we did. P.S.-as for that guy,he didn't have a Chinese system look about him-he just looked like a clueless wonder!
Yes, you will always have general guidelines for amateurs. That's the nature of things when there isn't the one-on-one focus and attention on the individual. However, professional athletes in many disciplines at the top of their game use techniques quite different from other top-level competitors.
"Historian Daniele Bolelli: "Aikido Works in MMA" " (Stephan Kesting) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaELw7GWvlw
Interestingly I think that the research suggests that much of the ''core'' focused training e.g. pilates and stuff like on your link doesn't produce better results than more traditional generalised training. There is always the question of why pay more for ''specialised'' systems or equipment when the end results are no better. It does interfere with lots of people's' incomes so there is lots of resistance to this idea. LFD
You're more qualified than me to comment, but I'd say that anyone talking about "natural ways of moving" has never spent any time looking at the huge variety of gait.
