Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
They say that black belt is when the real training begins (everything before then is prelim). Do you guys actually incorporate Sanda techniques in your Karate training? (or does is it taught separately?). For anyone reading this who may not know, Sanda (aka Sanshou) is a modern Chinese martial sport. I must admit that Sanda has produced some very impressive fighters, particularly Cung Le... I'm quite impressed at his ability to connect hits and make combos flow from that. He's also quite good at just flooring his opponents in as few moves as possible. Which is precisely how one should aim to fight in a self defence scenario -- that "This ends NOW!" mentality (or as Karate calls it, "One hit one kill") I've personally never tried Sanda myself, so I can't really comment much more about it.
He basically said the same thing. Once you get your black belt the world of martial arts opens up to you and then the real training begins. Yes we do incorporate some Sanda techniques into our class. Mainly the sweeps, throws and kick catching work as our striking is mainly karate with a bit of our Muay Thai syllabus incorporated.
One thing that did catch me off guard in our dinner conversation was when Shihan Rob said he likes that I do karate (our school offers 3 seperate classes, karate, Muay Thai and MMA). He said he hates the fakers that take the MMA classes thinking they are going to be the next ultimate fighter. He said by me taking karate it shows I take my martial arts seriously and he respects that.

I am quite surprised that you know who Cung Le is Gok. I thought you weren't a fan of competitive martial arts.