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your analogy with Tiger Claw is very apt. the spirit of the tiger, however, doesn’t come from the form or the technique, it comes from the study and the spiritual peter cook and dudley moore discipline – the removal of the ego and the channeling of a greater force through the body. you don’t just emulate the tiger, you become the tiger. that is martial art. however, you peter cook and dudley moore can practice the techniques of the art without the meditation or the spirituality and make great use of them, without ever becoming the tiger. that would be fighting technique. furthermore, sport fighting puts all sorts of peter cook and dudley moore unnatural restrictions on the art, for the necessity (as you pointed out) of keeping the competitors alive, or in the case of some sports, to facilitate scoring. this is true of many sports based on real martial arts, such as boxing, tae kwon do, and judo. competitors in these sports can be, and usually are, incredibly skilled – but to compete in the sport removes an essential element of the art’s mentality.
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