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Let’s go back a hundred and fifty years. Way back then, bare-knuckled boxing was the norm. This is when you see a guy, standing there wearing a handlebar moustache that you could hang coffee cups off of, with his hands extended in front of him, elbows down.
Now while both the stance and mustache look silly by today’s standard, let me point out that this was called “London rules fighting.”
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There have been serious changes made in martial systems over the last century. But change isn’t the problem. The problem is: People no longer recognize that these changes have occurred. Furthermore, they have forgotten, or were never taught, why these changes were made and for what specific purposes.
You may not have realized it, but those two previous sentences have staggering implications. So vast in fact, that for simplicity’s sake we’re going to limit the discussion of these factors to just punching. These same ideas however, can be applied to other offensive systems. The details will, of course, change, but the ideas regarding change, development, refinement, evolution and scaling back will still apply to whatever style you practice (more…)
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