CMAists, Do you fight?

[David Jamieson]

well, i'd like to abel, but they all did to varying degrees.

some competed regularly, some did not, all had sparring.

[SifuAbel]

Then vote yes and split the difference on the contact or better yet forget them and aswer for yourself, do you fight with contact.

[David Jamieson]

well...lol, yes and no.

more often, just light contact and very occaisionally this last year with medium to harder contact.

Regular hard contact fighting or competitive full contact fighting no.

see? I could pick at least two of your choices.

[mantis108]

I didn't vote because I think the poll is a bit flawed.

It looks like everybody is going to say they have hard contact in their training yet we have no way of proving that. Now, I am not accusing anybody of anything and of course we can assume that an honorary system is in effect but then what's the point of such a poll?

I think we need to rework the poll somewhat to reflect the real result. Just a thought.

Regards

Mantis108

[golden arhat]

in valetudo we fight no 2 ways about it we get angry we grapple we hit HARD we use the environment (floor, walls )
the only things we arent allowed to do is knee to the head or bollocks or elbow to the head as that tends to end a fight pretty quickly and we cant learn anything if we r unconscious
in wushu we dont fight but i work on technique ,speed and looking cool

[SevenStar]

bingo.....

[lkfmdc]

the poll needs to be edited to include "I only fight when I can wear shoes that pad my hip"

[SifuAbel]

bingo.....

... was his name-o. No Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wu shu doesn't fight.

GA should have answered NO.

[SifuAbel]

I think we need to rework the poll somewhat to reflect the real result. Just a thought.

Regards

Mantis108

How then? What would you like to see as poll questions?

[SifuAbel]

the poll needs to be edited to include "I only fight when I can wear shoes that pad my hip"

You're still concidered a TCMAists, kinda, why don't you vote?

[Ravenshaw]

Back at the Wing Lam school (left for college), we had no sparring in class, but instead had a group that got together outside class to do it. I don't think there's any sparring there at all anymore, but I'm not sure. The sparring we did there ranged from learning to submit without harming to putting on the gloves and fighting full-contact san shou. The head instructor at the time was a former bouncer and had trainedf chin na with Shi De Cheng, Sun Jian Yun, and Wing Lam and also did some BJJ and MT, so we were mixing it up a bit in that "class."

When I did Wing Tsun (left for college), we sparred, but only light contact with a cup and knuckle padding. I may start up again at a new school that is a bit more intense in their fight training.

Some people count san shou as Cung does it as CMA, so if that's the case I spar hard contact in my san shou class.

I'm also training with Lai Hung right now, who is another BSL teacher, known for competitive fighting. I haven't started sparring there yet, but my understanding is that it is both light, unpadded sparring and padded full-contact sparring.

Anyway, I spar because it's fun. I'm a bouncer, so like Gene I'm not looking to claw anyone's eyes out or split someone's leg in two with a roundhouse.

[lkfmdc]

You're still concidered a TCMAists, kinda, why don't you vote?

me? I'm just a sell out....

[golden arhat]

No Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wu shu doesn't fight.

GA should have answered NO.

but i do fight just not in wushu
and valetudo (contrary to popular belief ) has some cma in it they call it mixed martial arts for a reason
my instructor used to do hung ga with master chu
so i voted yes 1 because i'm a cma practitioner and 2 because i fight
the question wasnt do u fight with cma or even do u fight with cma in class
it was do u fight

and i fight

[mantis108]

How then? What would you like to see as poll questions?

I think I would post a poll like this:

Do you spar with CMA in these formats?

1) street full contact - NHB groin, kick to head on ground, small joints all allowed. Absolutely no protective gears.
2) Specializedl sports full contact - Boxing, kick boxing, Muai Thai, Shan Shou, Judo, BJJ, Shuai Jiao, etc.
3) Hardcore sports full contact - Vale tudo, UFC (groin, small joints, kick to head on ground off limit), Pride, etc...
4) Vocational full contact - Policing, security, correctional, bouncing, etc.
5) semi contact - continuous sparring limited takedown with partial or full protective gears.
6) light contact - point sparring no takedown with partial or full protective gears.
7) None of the above

What do you think?

I would vote 3 in this case.

Regards

Mantis108

[Faruq]

If I could do this, I'd fight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyNmV2Y43ko