hmm - well having been my old tai chi instructors punching bag for 15 years.
All I'll say is there's a shitload of stuff that the old chinese martil arts schools do that can't be explained by western science
And richards class was filled with harcore sceptic western scientists - and we did some stuff that none of us could explain.
The best one, I thought, was one time he was demonstrating a one finder strike technique, that his master had just taught him.
Now I was the official class punching bag for two main reasons.
1) I pretty much never bruise.
2) I have a stupidly high pain threshhold. It's not always a good thing.
And also it's the single best way to learn what effect something has.
It also meant that richard didn't have to pull his 'punches' to the point that there was no point doing them.
So richard did this one finger techique. And it actually hurt. I was impressed.
But over the next week It developed into a massive purple bruise all over the my torso.
I mean I was impressed - 'cos, you know I just don't bruise.
Richard was totally horrified - I'm not sure how close I came to death that night, but judging by how white he went - I'm guessing almost as close as the day I let larry bray sling lead glandes at me
Which in that case was about 6 feet.
One thing I was proud of, was that none of the neck or shoulder grips ever worked on me.
Mind you, back then I used to do sets of 10 reps on the 110kg shoulder press.
I could probably do a couple now - but i've damaged way too many bits of my body to ever get back to that level of strength.
But I still don't bruise
And I can probably still rip your arm off and beat you with the soggy end - All a matter of leverage
So while I'm not convinced the japanese guy was genuine - I would not mess with the chinese guy in the blue shirt.
Most of that was totally genuine and proper old school wu shu.
Look at it this way. The chinese masters don't even teach their students all they know, let alone EVER explain anything to anyone.
And yes I am being deliberately vague.
Some of the stuff I learnt, I shouldn't have been taught.
So my lips are sealed.
My teachers masters master was a living national treasure of china. And a little smiley guy who could have walked through any special forces regiment anywhere in the world, without breaking sweat.
Hell my teacher and his master used to go to hereford regularly to teach unarmed combat to the sas.
Probably not the good stuff, just the bog standard bone breaking side of things.
Leverage is a wonderful thing.
But just because YOU don't understand why a certain movement elicites a certain response - don't automatically assume it's been faked.
Proper chinese martial arts is only about 30% physical.
The rest is all about chi.
And the better you get, the less you need the physical side of things.
Not at all mystical.
we are electrical beings.
Learn to manipulate the electrical field of another human being and you can do a lot more damage and have a lot more control, than any mma hold or strike.
I break it down into to types of fighting: recreational martial arts.
where people hit other people and they both seem to get something out of it.
And actual fighting where the only aim is to stop someone as fast as possible - usually terminally.
I've never - personally - seen much point in recreational fighting.
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