Combat Sanshou - Part 1: Striking, DISC TWO

[edwardturney]

looks terrible to me

[ptccm]

I'm sorry to hear you didn't like the clip. Hopefully you'll find better elsewhere.

Best of luck with your own training.

[Mider999]

@ptccm Have you been able to use this art as a great self defense art? What i mean is what has been your rate of success when having to defend yourself on the street or what is the rate of someone else having to use it against some thug? If it works then thats great because if it doesnt look pretty then well who cares as long as it works.

[ptccm]

@Mider999 It has worked well for me and the people I taught it to tell me it has worked for them too. So I'd say we're doing OK so far. That said, everybody is different so I can't say up front if Combat Sanshou would be a good match for anybody in particular. But that's true of all martial arts, I guess. All you can do is train hard and do the best you can.

[smokinthepot]

@Mider999 i used karate in a street fight i had trained before hand for 5 years and ended up with a black eye i landed some hits but kicking to the head was slow, I took up wing chun and trained a bit over a year and have won over 4 scraps since I use a combination of karates quicker footwork and stances and wing chuns empecable infighting and redirectional parries.

[alipali2001]

i thought san shou didnt use elbows, your mixing it with thai boxing skills

[ptccm]

You're right, sports sanshou (sanda) doesn't use elbows. But that's not what these DVDs are about; Combat Sanshou is about self-defense, not sports fighting. To put your mind at ease, there are no muay Thai elements mixed into it. There are already plenty of elbow techniques in traditional Chinese martial arts.

[MaBu888]

Yes, ptccm I agree too.

[a1exgerman]

Quite true. The only people who claim that one martial arts owns copyrights to certain moves are either a) not martial artists or b) not from earth. Sanda is a great free fight form, I enjoyed practicing it back in my kung fu days. Great video.

[ptccm]

Thanks, glad to hear you enjoyed the clip.

[consistentbass]

looks like a good martial art to go along with knife fighting.