Why do so many JKD/Kali Instructors still teach drills like Sombrada, and hubud then?
My gods honest guess is that most Instructors simply don’t know how else to do it. Since they don’t understand how to drill they fear they will lose students by teaching Alive. They believe that students ‘want’ or need these drills. Or that to stay in business they have to do it this way. Again, that is a fallacy. There are much better ways to teach. Just as safe, just as easy to learn, just as fun, and far more functional. What is the De-Chau analogy? It was an analogy that explained why it is important to always teach ‘principles’ for fighting with activity specific drills. So for example I would talk about the mysterious “dropping” energy. I could then invent a two person form to ‘demonstrate’ that principle. Perhaps a little dance where we stomp our feet a few times, like the chicken steps in Kali. Or perhaps a two person patty cake form where we can play a game and try and slap each others hip before we perform the “drop”. There would quickly be De-Chau experts, who were undefeata
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