Posted by KC Elbows on January 23, 2003 at 17:01:44:
In Reply to: speaking b4 you know posted by MarshallArt on January 23, 2003 at 16:32:05:
I don't agree. Not because your logic isn't sound, or because I agree with the group on the issue. I just think it's an overrated move. It's nice and impressive, it's cool to learn for that, but against a standing opponent, I don't buy it, and I don't see anyone who can actually sell it against the opponent that's an equal. So it's not the sort of thing I incorporate. The moment it would be used against an opponent would be when he's really vulnerable anyway, basically screwed. At that point, even an amateur could do the kick well enough to end it. I just don't see the artfulness in the move. Nothing deeper to it than its appearance. It's frivolous, in my opinion. And it's not effective at building offensive power, because it so involves a hypothetical to have already been set up, meaning, you already have to be at the moment of coup de grace to do it.
And please, don't tell me I need to see a good practitioner of it. I have. It is an all right skill to have, but the moo lacks the lead in to that, at least they have since they dropped their kong su. The moo needs to develop that sort of stuff. And I've never met a fighter whose skill I feared most was their jump kicking skill. I've had a regular sparring partner for ten years who is an excellent kicker, and not once have I worried about his jump kicks. Never. I am not unwary of their possibility, but they just do not come, because they are high risk, and always will be so, and sometimes, in fights, the opportunity for the high risk move is not that important, because your opponent makes it easier on you. And that's what skilled people do in fights: stop the fight in exactly the way the opponent allows to occur.