It isn't 'no head shots vs absolute slugfest' that's a straw man; the point is even light sparring with head shots is a better learning tool than 'tough kumite' without.
This is true, made very front & center in boxing training, the science of the program.
BTW, I lost again in randori.
I really disagree with that. Theory can never beat actual experience. Just the person you are throwing shifting their weight changes the whole dynamic of the movement.
That's fair. Judo's founder particularly created randori to account for that. Yet despite the fact that I've been losing (three sessions now w senior belts), it's not about winning... to me.
Maybe so but it's a "bias" that is shared with the vast majority of people involved in self defence, combat sports and martial arts. There is a reason why virtually all the most succesful systems/arts/fighters etc utilise contact sparring.
Again a true statement to a large degree. What makes your stance even stronger is the psuedo-martial artist group which is so prominent in TMA, which really has no idea of what they are doing with their techniques... even the straightforward ones.... it's so bad like that Rokas dude who took 10 years to Wake Up.
Saw a video along these lines that TSF would absolutely love... way tops that BJJ killer smashing the aikido talker. Hopefully I can find it.
Which is part of the problem. There is no point knowing dozens of flashy moves if you can't even get the basics right. Youtube is full of TMA 'masters' getting dropped because of this.
See above... right w you. I even commented @ the outset on some kempo? video... like wow, great if they can pull it off... but way dubious... way too flashy complicated... IMO. Not something I would personally try even if I saw it in my area... don't see kempo, I think there is kenpo.
I have trained MT with a Teakwondo black belt who could spinning kick over my head but constantly had his chin up, dropped his hands and whose footwork was poor.
Yeah, it's in the Kyo video too, the black-belt sparring partner w MJW... same stuff. And I put up that girl kyo competition w black-belts,,, and the one is standing stock in front w their adapted guard... blam Kick KTFO.
I say, though, what do these black-belts think they are doing? That Rokas video, the guy is lost in the Ireland Shotokan karate class... I think it's much harder to master to a functional level than kicking good, which most student couldn't do either.
Every sparring session he put himself in dangerous situations (like giving his back after landing a kick or walking on to potential counters) without even realizing it as his fight IQ was minimal. He had picked up bad habits through 'play-fighting'. If I was a more aggressive sparring partner or we were in competition/the street he could have got badly hurt.
Yeah, that's it... play fighting.
Judo's ' full contact' randori takes care of that.... Even so, we don't consider our practice Judo sessions 'playing.'
Traditional martial arts is chock full of people who don't really get it... even aside from the jokes (hope I can find that barn burner of an idiot one.). They're a lot of fun to watch though.
The point is if a black belt is doing it it shows that the training is not fulfilling it's main purpose of teaching. If you did that in boxing/MT/kickboxing you would get hit in the face - which is an excellent teaching aid. You learn from your knocks; just like mollycoddled children mollycoddled martial artists won't progress.
I've kinda made a statement about that here... but it wasn't liked. Too biased.
I'll add another post. But boxing science addresses all that you've talked about... yet these MMA camps look like play fighting... including the hard fighting 'cause they'e just bashing each other in the name of Not-Mollycoddlling.
To be clear I rate Karate (and other TMAs) and it can be very useful bot in combat sports and real world self defence but they need to bring their training into the 21st century.
Yeah, there's the bias. Gracie's started all that commercially. Look what happened to them.