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Originally Posted by WC_Lun  No, actually I like Cung Le quite a lot. I think his timing is amazing. I also like and appreciate San Shou. Most of the guys who do this sport are pretty damn good and tough as nails. What I don't like is people thinking San Shou IS CMA. While it can be confusing, San Shou is a sport and its participants don't necesarily use CMA...like Cung Le. Chinese martial arts are something different from San Shou and not a sport...well most CMA isn't a sport. Too many people think San Shou and Chinese martial arts are the same and interchangable. They aren't. |
This is all incorrect. Cung Le is Vietnamese, but he was not raised in Vietnam. He was raised in America, competed in American kickboxing, but did so with a San Shou background. San Shou is kind of like Chinese MMA. It's a mixture of Shuai Chao throwing skills, CMA takedowns and sweeps, and a variety of kicks from all of the Chinese martial arts. IT selected the best the Chinese world had to offer, and then trained them for competition.
It is a Chinese martial art. But it isn't, per say, a Traditional Chinese Martial ARt. But if you train traditional martial arts, he's an example of how to make those techniques work inside of a ring. He beat some great martial artists from a professional circuit that wrties kung fu off as a charlatan's art.
But clearly they were wrong.
As a demonstration of Dim Mak in action, watch how he beat Tony Frykklund. He didn't knock him out, take him down for submission, or anything like that. A stiff shot (perhaps only general in his mind--as he's not into Dim Mak and only stumbled onto the strike) to the liver's key pressure point ended the fight. How did he hit that point? With a CMA roundhouse or side-sweep, not a Muay Thai Roundhouse.
Frykklund threw up and wound up being carted off by doctors.
Dim Mak=victory in all fields of Martial arts, even MMA.