I wouldn't say it was all bad either, but any time I read a 'maxim' like: 'do X to terminate the conflict', I think 'click bait', 'moron', or both. In this case it was a nice salad of the two.Originally Posted by MVS
Good luck Cody.
I wouldn't say it was all bad either, but any time I read a 'maxim' like: 'do X to terminate the conflict', I think 'click bait', 'moron', or both. In this case it was a nice salad of the two.
Good luck Cody.
Fairness leads to extinction much faster than harsh parameters.
The difference in context is massive. Craig would never advocate you try to eye gouge someone "as they are coming in to tackle" you. He also doesn't say that hitting the eyeball is "terribly easy." He actually emphasizes splaying the fingers to increase the chance of landing something near the eye, as he notes that the eyeball is an extremely small target (especially when moving). Finally, he tells students that it will buy them a fraction of a second: not that it will leave their opponent "hunched over in severe pain from a poked eye," as the author puts it.
The author's ridiculous promises of results are what trouble me the most: not the particular techniques themselves. If a man is so weak and fragile as to be "hunched over" by "a poked eye, broken hand, or paralyzing groin strike," I don't reckon he was much of a threat in the first place.
100% sober people can shrug off that kind of shit. Add alcohol? And adrenaline? And too much testosterone? We're talking about someone who will gladly beat anyone's face in with his broken hand.
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Food for thought... Cops and military guys haven't always bought the best martial arts training out there. Their BJJ program seems to be a happy accident and reads like they're a solid place for BJJ.
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These guys have real world experience which they have shared with us. Here is an interesting one: Emil said he has done a number of front kicks to the midsection and "100% of the time they have fallen on top of me," so he advocates a round kick to the ribs instead, which will send them down at an angle allowing you to avoid their fall. This dojo advocates KM as a striking system and BJJ as a ground system. They also introduce weapons defense and disarm early in the program.
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How are your round kicks?
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I don't disagree with anything you said there. It just seemed like something more generic and turned out for the "low information voter" to borrow a phrase.
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Fairness leads to extinction much faster than harsh parameters.
I can tell you that I have personally landed a couple of different front kicks to the midsection in street fights, and I don't know how many in the ring as a kickboxer. I'd guess at least a dozen that landed with plenty of power.
No one has ever fallen on top of me as a result. I admit I have long legs but I'm actually struggling to picture this happening. People tend to get pushed back pretty hard from that kind of thing, and even if they double over...it's not something that's going to make or break the fight, that's for sure.
I did know a guy who'd throw incredibly fast snap kicks during street fights. You'd see him holding a guy in a headlock, and throwing these snap kicks at different levels on somebody else...the guy was just a machine. He was a highly-skilled martial artist, a great boxer, and a medal-winning competitor at the Pan-Am games one year. He'd probably break ribs with a lot of his kicks. I never saw anybody fall in a particular direction as the direct result of a kick, though, and that guy probably threw more, harder, kicks in actual street fights than anyone I've ever met.
So in general that seems like an unusual recommendation to me.
Bottom line: go get in a bunch of fights (in a ring or other semi-controlled environment where someone with superior skills is trying to beat you, but not maim you). That's the only way to get any good, so train in an environment in which that's possible. I honestly think you're wasting your time looking for tactics at this stage. I'd pretty much just spend some time grappling, which is what I should have done instead of kickboxing, and box enough that you can throw simple combos of jab-cross-hook-uppercut with some degree of speed and accuracy.
If you can do that, you'll crush the average drunk guy that mistook you for the dude who banged his girlfriend.
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