Originally Posted by
Phil Redmond
I don't try to hit a student in a demo. But we do train the same thing I did in the demo while striking from a real contact intent distance. I can email you some clips showing what I mean. Look for a PM from me.
I have no doubt that you guys do translate it well into your sparring, the clips of your guys fighting full contact is evidence of that.
And no, you don't have to hit the student in the demo, the point is that the student should AT LEAST TRY to hit you though.
That said, I have been hit plenty of times while being the "dummy" in a demo and it didn't kill me.
That is what gear and control are for.
Like I mentioned on the PM, it's not that the demo are useless and nothing can be learned, its that it is NOT realistic and it could be.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !