If not wing chun... then what?

**Torakaka** · Posted On: 5/22/2006 2:22pm

Don't listen to this man, his brain has turned to mush from all the hours spent doing amazingly slow forms

**Cullion** · Posted On: 5/22/2006 2:46pm

Not mush. Jing

**Moleculo** · Posted On: 5/22/2006 3:03pm

Originally Posted by Cullion

Muay Thai is just kickboxing deluxe++, but you'll almost certainly never get to use any of those knees and elbows on a sparring opponent, so why bother ?

I don't know what planet you're from but here on Earth knees and elbows are used in sparring, competition and in life outside the ring.

But you do tai-chi so...

**Mjelva** · Posted On: 5/22/2006 3:40pm

God damned tai chi hippies.
Knees ftw!

**Mr. Jones** · Posted On: 5/22/2006 4:07pm

You guys wouldn't diss Tai Chi if you met Master Chen.

**Cullion** · Posted On: 5/22/2006 4:56pm

Originally Posted by Reese

I don't know what planet you're from..

This one :-

Originally Posted by kidspatula

you won't be having any hard shin to shin contact or any getting elbowed in the face in any muay thai gym I know of

Only a small percentage of people who take up Muay Thai ever compete under full Thai rules.

**Moleculo** · Posted On: 5/22/2006 5:06pm

We practice restraint with our training partners so that they can come back to train another day.

Elbows and knees are thrown but not carried through; it's called CONTROL.

The mindset of not training four of the best weapons a person has just makes no sense to me.

**Cullion** · Posted On: 5/22/2006 5:25pm

Originally Posted by Reese

We practice restraint with our training partners so that they can come back to train another day.

Elbows and knees are thrown but not carried through; it's called CONTROL.

Like light-contact sport karate does with punches and kicks ? awesome. *

The mindset of not training four of the best weapons a person has just makes no sense to me.

I agree, that's why you practice all of the techniques banned in competition at full resistance, right ? **

* & ** Haha, just fucking with you. You went from misunderstanding humour, to indignant about me doing some shitty internal CMA, to sounding like some shotokan instructor all in the space of two posts. That's awesome. Have you been drinking ?

**War Wizard** · Posted On: 5/22/2006 5:43pm

Originally Posted by El Macho

Judo can be more painful than BJJ. Being thrown on the mat sucks ass!!!

True dat, but very few things are as satisfying as sending someone to the mat.

**Moleculo** · Posted On: 5/22/2006 5:43pm

Originally Posted by Cullion

I agree, that's why you practice all of the techniques banned in competition at full resistance, right ?

We practice knees against an opponent who's wearing a bellypad in practice.

In MMA or MT competitions they aren't held back at all.

Same thing with elbows.

As far as scratching ,spitting, slapping, windmilling fingerbending and ball grabbing well we don't practice that as it is more of a taichi thing.