Naperville wrote: ↑Fri Nov 19, 2021 7:51 pmI buy as many DVDs of renown martial arts as I can. If they're weird that's fine as long as I think the concept will allow me to win. They all have some benefit and most of them suffer from the same faults.
One thing that is common to most escrima, arnis, kali is that the instructor is practising on a willing participant and in real knife or hand to hand combat, that will not be the case.
I don’t practice FMA, but that is common in many/most martial arts.
One of the things I really liked about the way we learned Choy Lee Fut is that, once we were versed enough in a certain application that we learned, the ‘dummy’ had to try to shut you down, or go off-angle on you, and not always in the same way. In other words, the dummy then was actively messing up the application. It wasn’t so much a fake tit-for-tat type of practice situation, but a way to add some realism into a pre-set application practice. And with CLF, there is some realism to this method of learning, because things come at you from literally any angle, and to do it right, you can’t always exercise much control.
Of course, before you got to that point, when you first learned the sequence, you needed a cooperative dummy, just to get the sequence and the concept down pat.
Jim