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Originally Posted by WC_Lun  A San Shou gym would be like an MMA gym. No it wouldn't be training MMA techniques  It would be a gym dedicated to the sport of San Shou. This one of the reasons the web site set off alarm bells. They say they are a San Shou gym, but then they are adding traditional elements to it (they say). It just doesn't work that way. | Per below Quote:
Originally Posted by WC_Lun I didn't mean family as in related by family. I meant the atmosphere. 47MM, some family systems do indeed award sashs and ranks. It is a tool like any other. Some schools use it, some schools don't. Saying a school is not a family school based upon whether they award sashes or not is incorrect and bad advice to someone who might be looking for a school. | But in the smaller, family orientated, traditional schools, there are no sashes indicating rank. I was speaking in terms of traditional. This would be like adding modern values to traditional elements. The sash thing is in accordance to modern martial art applications and not traditional. Quote:
Originally Posted by WC_Lun I don't care for splashing hands. I don't think its as effective as using..ack, can't remember the Chinese term for it, short, explosive, penetrating, power. While splashing hands incorporates this principle, the practitioners rarely have it. | Have you come across a good practitoner of it to make this assessment?
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That post before mine, was that for post counting? How about the one after?
Hey, my post count has the same palaverment tone as anyone elses'
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