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Aliveness is a prime example of why I dislike the Straight Blast Gym and others like them.

Here's an idea, training forms and two or three step patterns to develop mechanics is bad because it does not train the actual skills necessary for effective fighting. So, let's train those things like timing by constantly training with active resistance.

Fantastic, I'm sold.

But then here's what SBG et Al. have done. Let's take that idea from above and slap a name on it, for example aliveness. So, now, whenever an SBG guy goes to another school or talks to an artist from whatever other school that artist goes to, the SBG guy can't stop ranting about how great training with aliveness is and because nobody else in the rest of the world uses the term aliveness in that manner, the other artist is lost and the SBG guy assumes the other guy is a dipshit with mediocre training.

Ideas should not have names, names are arbitrary, ideas are specific. When a person or group applies a name to an idea, they assert a certain level of control over the method of thinking of those who also adopt that name for that concept. It is not something I will accomodate.