this is the post from this
forum, Dasha explains her
fight on Martial Arts Olympics.
Question:
What features of the style used in the fight can you point out?
Answer:
Let's divide it into 2 parts:
1. Things which common observer can easily see - the external part.
2. Things, which are very hard to see on the video, but which are obviously felt when used against you - the internal part. This also can be seen by a high-experienced practicioner of internal martial arts.
Some things which can be easily seen:
- Open frontal stance, inviting the opponent to attack, arms at the far distance;
- Power is generated by the 1st (wrist) section. That gives an opportunity to prevail when capturing the space, to deal with punches without using the close distance;
- There is no "switching" of the legs' muscles during the movement. The movement does not stop;
- Off-balancing the opponent on contact when striking or defending;
- Permanent attack;
- Jamming opponent's structure;
- No specific technics for offense or defense (If it is sanshou rules - it looks like sanshou, if muai-thai - like muai-thai, if tuishou - so you see tuishou, etc.)
- flowing the opponent;
- Offense or defense genereting the power from the feet, absorbing the energy of the strike using the hands;
- Split when striking;
- Body structure: opened back, condenced sturnum, shoulders, legament and bone structure.
2. The peculiarities of the style in the contact point, which are hard seen for the unexperienced observer:
- offense and defense is the one, there are no separate offensive or defensive movements;
- effecting centers of mass on strike, clintch, on any contact.
- strike goes through the whole structure of the opponent, no matter. what part of the body is in contact, at the same time of-balancing him.
- The opponent can not run away from the contact point and is stuck to it, because of 5 qualities in the point of contact. This does not allow him to continue attacking.
- you are formless, so you can not be caught on your reflex, habit, etc.
- The movement is circular, so the movement in your body and your strike do not not stop, you do not waste time on 'switching' from strike to strike.
- heep roll allows you to chang directions freely without stop.
- the power is generated by all the body joints;
- you use the unified force of the whole body.
etc.
we can write a lot on it, but it is not necessary. I tried to explain it in plain words using simple exaples. But that is the combination of everything which was mantioned, what does not allow the opponent to apply his technics. That is not because of his low level, or smth else.
And please, don't read this post through your past experience. Most of what i wrote about probably was not in your experience.