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Old January 22nd, 2009, 06:05 AM
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Default Re: OT: Western v. Eastern martial arts

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Originally Posted by Panpiper View Post
What most martial artists fail to realize (especially the new ones) is that the techniques being taught are not taught with the intention that "in case A, you do B". Rather techniques are taught so as to practice 'principles' that can most easily be learned by practicing techniques.
I'll post this link in here, since we're already straying away from Fourth Age discussion. This video shows 'principles' that are then broken down and extrapolated from. I can't even really imagine how much time it would take to be able to do something like this "on the fly". The same group has a collection of great videos in Youtube, everything I've seen from them is great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDP0r...eature=channel
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