With martial arts, sometimes simple is best.

Here is the channel I mention in this video:
/ @triessencemartialarts
So with all this talk about what it takes to make a martial art effective, I think we tend to overlook one particular trait: simplicity.
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[@seanrush3723]

Bless your upload times. Was just looking for something interesting

[@riggsreacts]

This video is absolute facts too many martial arts skip just learning the basics and mastering that, many arts today teach too many specific situational techniques and complexities making it harder to use in real situations, this as an issue I had with a few BJJ schools

[@talentbong7446]

I concur. Jibengong or fundamental core movements are most important for developing the body method or Shenfa used in the style.
Most people usually end up neglecting this since it seems so much faster to collect techniques, which is kind of ironic since those techniques are essentially manifested body mechanics developed by those fundamental concepts and methods of motion.

[@Tiagabby4]

15:15 unless you're Sherlock Holmes.
Then you discombobulate the guy

[@KevinPutzier]

"Stop trying to hit me and HIT me!" -Morpheus....😜

[@nuclearsimian3281]

My instructor put it this way, which I found incredibly salient; "We teach you the complicated things for you to practice at home, to make the simple stuff absolutely trivial for you to do when it matters most. The simple stuff will be what saves your life."

[@sapientisessevolo4364]

As Ricardo Martinez from hajime no ippo showed, block and dodge opponent's hits and hit them till they surrender or are KO'd

[@kenban8533]

As always, great content. This is a debate that I see taking place across the TCMA community. Far from being a sign of trouble, I feel like it augurs well for the growth of the art.

[@NotMeButAnother]

There's kind of a weird pareto principle of martial arts (as in 20% of techniques do 80% of the work), and to me the reason is that basically everything complex you would do in a fight is intended to get around the defence of a very skilled opponent. Most practical scenarios you just need to have some grasp of your distance, know how to put your weight into one or two basic, safe and stable attacks and possibly keep up a basic guard, maybe know to break a grip in case the fight started up close. The rest is just fitness, conditioning and awareness. Thing is, these things can be boring to train. I mean - against an untrained fighter, a lot of feints don't even work because they don't react since they don't know how to read your movements. Putting skill against skill and going into the realm where tactics and art begin to matter just feels so much "cooler", and that's where all the complexity finds its application (although rarely in fixed sequences). It's just not a very likely scenario outside of your internal training and competition.

[@white-noisemaker9554]

Hey SS! I really like your content, but this has been bugging me for awhile... can you mute your sound notifications while recording? It's really distracting, and half the time I keep thinking they are my own notifications on my PC! LOL!

[@SuperHongTay]

Would you ever consider getting the tang zhan ma dao?

[@kleinjahr]

Have you ever read Fairbairn’s Get Tough? Used by SOE and OSS during WWII.

[@Parker8752]

So, the link in the description gives me a 404 error, but I think this is the right channel: www.youtube.com/@TriEssenceMartialArts

[@Swordsage]

Thanks for the correction. I've just updated the url in the description.

[@Parker8752]

@@Swordsage no worries

[@apuapu4545]

Hey I'm early for once.