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Meanwhile, one of life's paradoxes is that life does not ask you to try so hard; yet, freeing ourselves from this life—or from our difficulties—seems like such a difficult task.The most beautiful things (nature) come into being by chance, without any effort. Often, when we put effort into something, we drive it away; if we don't force it, it comes on its own. Life is like fishing. Fishing depends on the waters and the bait you cast, and—of course—it is also a matter of luck; there might be fish today, yet for some reason, there might be nothing at all tomorrow.

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Meanwhile, one of life's paradoxes is that life does not ask you to try so hard; yet, freeing ourselves from this life—or from our difficulties—seems like such a difficult task.The most beautiful things (nature) come into being by chance, without any effort. Often, when we put effort into something, we drive it away; if we don't force it, it comes on its own. Life is like fishing. Fishing depends on the waters and the bait you cast, and—of course—it is also a matter of luck; there might be fish today, yet for some reason, there might be nothing at all tomorrow.

What do you think of this sparring video beetween Taekwondo ITF training for 5 to 6 years who's is 1st Dan black belt and this Wing Chun guy who had trained for 6 months and is 2nd level at Wing Chun - William cheung lineage. K

The Taekwondo guy is almost 100kgr and the Wing chun guy is 70kgr.

The Wing Chun master is Sifu Chris Vafiadis and Taekwondo guy's master is a Greek master.

Can someone tell me why do Shaolin monks say that if you don't practice basic stances for 1 day is like losing 1 week of practice?

The chat translated in English:

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Her: Yes

That it until now. I don't know, I was always that good guy that didn't ever really do a thing, and I've tried to make myself better and sometimes I think I'm doing it all wrong. I think that other people know how to do it and that I'm so behind. That they have those magic words or things they do and that I just don't know what they do.

I don't know what is really the fault, maybe the fact that traditional martial arts are mostly displayed for their fancyness and modern martial arts are displayed for their aggressive "nature".

Maybe it's the fact that traditional martial arts seem to lose too often and mostly never really used on their pure form in MMA or kick boxing style contests that people have started to waiting for the person that uses traditional martial arts to lose, they just know it's gonna happen so then it's like that people, even if they see a traditional martial artist with pure techniques dominate, they either can't see that, so they only see what they think they know, or they just refuse to see.

I just have seen this phenomenon during watching martial arts on YouTube and practicing for 6 years now, have you ever seen that?

I don't know if what I'm about to say it's true because mostly the bjj guys know better, but I think that by training flexibility like all those practitioners we see at shaolin temple, it might more difficult for someone to make a submittion like those they do with the legs or the hands.

I'm not sure though because even in anatomy we know that the human body has a limit that can't exceed (the angles of the joints). So even if you were extremely flexible you wouldn't really because too flexible to the point were those submittions couldn't work.

I just saw a guy in YouTube, that he couldn't be submitted, so Tong Qi Gong in it's advanced form, may be used to make you able to not be submitted like this guy.

The traditional martial arts stances we know, like Ma Bu, are known for their ability to train isometric training, they are fundamental for the most Kung Fu style, especially Shaolin styles. MMA or UFC fighters very rarely use those stances during training, but that doesn't mean that they are unimportant. That's because Kung fu stances, if they are trained with the right mindset (and I mean that if train any Kung Fu stance and you reach to a point where you have pain in your legs and you have 30 seconds to go if you say that "even though it's difficult that doesn't mean I can't do it" so if you make your mind not focus on the hard stuff but on the fact that even if it'sdifficult it doesn't mean that i can't do it) then you really train your mindset just by simply doing basic stances.

We all see daily Traditional martial arts almost always losing against modern martial arts like Boxing, Kick boxing or MMA ect. In my opinion the problem mostly lies on the masters that teach traditional martial arts. I mean that if you all have an experience on what goes on, on an average Kung Fu ortraditional martial arts school, then you know that most masters don't ever teach the real fighting spirit, with the way that most modern martial arts coaches do, and not just fighting spirit but fighting techniques as they should be. I mean that you mostly see people doing forms or sparring according to a certain rulebook, so sparring without ever understanding what I fighting could mostly really contain.

We very rarely see a traditional martial arts master teaching his students that the most important thing in a fight is to strike first with power

So I think that's one very good point

We all see daily Traditional martial arts almost always losing against modern martial arts like Boxing, Kick boxing or MMA ect. In my opinion the problem mostly lies on the masters that teach traditional martial arts. I mean that if you all have an experience on what goes on, on an average Kung Fu ortraditional martial arts school, then you know that most masters don't ever teach the real fighting spirit, with the way that most modern martial arts coaches do, and not just fighting spirit but fighting techniques as they should be. I mean that you mostly see people doing forms or sparring according to a certain rulebook, so sparring without ever understanding what I fighting could mostly really contain.

We very rarely see a traditional martial arts master teaching his students that the most important thing in a fight is to strike first with power

So I think that's one very good point