firstly...T,do not practise the standing pee it is a real turn off to see a woman squat with no fella underneath
1 thing i would like to say, and desperately trying not to sound disrespectful,but in my opinion,and to be honest,in any gym ive ever been,a woman simply has no place...now im all for a woman learning to defend herself,but,and its a huge BUT....like ive already said,martial arts and real fighting is a totally different thing...im not saying this from a male ego point of view im saying it from a realistic and honest point of view...i dont care who the woman is,there is no woman alive who can or would take down a half decent fighter and beat him in a no rules situation...the female body just simply isnt designed to take this kind of punishment...,i have seen some very strong capable women box with gloves on, and hats off to them if thats what gets their pulse racing,but a fight where the person who cannot get up is the loser is just not for women...i dont believe that women have the same pain threshold,i can hear you saying " yes but what about child birth " and i totally agree that when it comes to aches and colds and flu etc women make us look like a big girls blouse....but being punched hard in the face,being kneed with full force in the stomach,having an arm locked out,direct intense violence...the basic fighting principles a woman just doesnt possess. that urge to accept the pain and come back with everything you have type of attitude,i believe 99 per cent of women would quit on pain.....now ive experienced and seen many times men who will not quit in a fight on pain alone...now this is often not a nice sight and its certainly not a nice feeling,but it is the ultimate in respect amongst men who fight...you can be the most talented hard hitting fella in the world,have great submissions and be able to take the hardest shot...but none of these attributes come close to the basic quality of not quitting in a fight....you can learn any discipline,you can improve your body to be stronger in a fight,you can work on your ground game...the one thing you cannot change is your HEART or lack of....heart,guts,gameness,will to win call it what you want,but this attribute is the most honest and natural of all and is something you either have or you dont and if you dont you cant grow it,practise it or buy it...so when you talk about real fighting this attribute is something that needs thinking about in the whole context of a fight as opposed to a martial art.....
i believe that 80 per cent of martial arts is for show,it looks impressive...but in a real situation(and by a real situation i mean an arranged fight against another man of equal weight with no rules) it doesnt,hasnt or never will be used....
nunchuka you mentioned the hughes/gracie fight and here is a great example of a man who only knew 1 way to fight....gracie shocked the fighting world when he came along in the early 90,s...people didnt understand his way of fighting and how he could beat much bigger opponents from the ground,hence came the popularity of BJJ....but,and again its a massive BUT...you need more than being good in 1 area to win a no rules fight..matt hughes proved this as have many people before him.....gracie back in the day was beating much bigger guys who knew nothing about fighting on the ground...hughes is a great example of a fighter who has evolved and is now a complete fighter after starting out life as a wrestler and nothing else....hughes easily beat gracie on the ground weighing the same weight...the fact is,a fighter must be well rounded to compete nowadays..myself im not really a lover of ufc/cage fights as i feel there are too many rules,they had to bring in rules to stop the sport being banned for being barbaric etc...but,it has taken a lot away from being able to call it a REAL FIGHT.
as for your point about why your sifu doesnt enter ufc,or in fact any level of competition in the mma world
i,ll tell you why,because he is not stupid !!!!
these people brainwash others with their impressive LOOKING skills,in reality and in the real world of fighting,they know they simply couldnt compete...like i said im my first post,its nothing new....nunchuka you sound like you want to learn about combat and thats great....i would advise you to go round a few gyms,gyms that cater for cross training and MMA...talk to people,ask them questions that you have spoken about on here...it will not be long before your own intelligent brain will leave you with no other option than to get all this wing wang flying crane spider shit out of your head,and accept what REAL fighting is....im not being disrespectful when i say this i just believe these karate/kung fu schools etc have a lot to answer for !
you said do i base things i say on experience,and i will only say this....im not here to blow my own horn as i dont feel i have anything to prove,but the conclusions i have come to i have come to through being a mid 30,s man who has studied,practised,competed and trained others with all this stuff over a 20 year period,but compared to some i know nothing ! i have seen what works and what doesnt whether that be in a cage or in a field,whether that be a spur of the moment thing or dedicating and sacrificing 12 weeks of your life to build up for an event that will pay the bills for the next few months....
i,ll end this drivel now by repeating the very first thing i said on the subject....had a man ever squared up to me(or many of the lads ive been around over the years) with this stuff i would have rubbed my hands and had a little chuckle to myself before going to work on him,and yes that includes your sifu...i mean no disrespect to you or anyone else,but sometimes reality needs to be kept in front of what you find impressive to watch,sometimes,many times in fact,a real fight isnt particularly exciting to watch and that is just reality..no amount of fancy dragon phoenix crane or whatever else they try to brainwash you with will change what the game of fighting without rules is...and sometimes its just not all that exciting or impressive to watch as its simply not about being impressive or LOOKING good,its about getting the job done....all the best people....LL