hi everybody,

I think you can make a difference between "fighting tricks", "combat arts" and martial arts...not the names but 3 types of concepts.

when a country is at war for long time, the warriors who survive start having tricks for not being killed...I talk about old time fighting without firearms...they developed some "fighting tricks", and if the wars go for long time, they can even teach the trucks to the young generation.

but it's no arts, just tricks.

if the war come and go, over a longer period of time, the ancient warriors can make some style of fighting, exercises and "structure" tricks...no form, just exercises to be stronger and meaner...these are the fighting arts, just for fighting but structured.

if the war stop, and the warriors start to be bored because all they know is killing, they start thinking with their mind, imagining, not just reproducing what was is life.
they start to create and deducted and make variations on the things they know to work...and the ritual, and the forms, and....they make martial arts.

the name are not important, the evolution is.
lot of the things we see are just imaginable and created more than felt or tried, that's a problem for usage.

too many ritual and not enough training.

to use a motion in a stress situation we need some time of reaction.
the more you have to choose from your arsenal or forms the more punch you get in the nose.

if you train in the structured and clean, how can you prepare for the fighting which is Chaos and dirty...???

it's a trick question.

INTENT is what makes the difference between a punch and a punch...try!

forms can be a problem because of the intent we put in the beauty and precision of the form and forget the intent, it's not only bad for fighting but it's bad for energy work too.

well enough of my bad english...
see you soon,

serge

Right on Serge!! lets go back to the days of Tai Cheat!! Sting Yi!! and Packyua punches!!!