• Archive through July 02, 2003 July 02 - 11:42 pm [20]

Rumbrae,
Yes.

Hey rumbrae,

that's one of the most scientific and documented article I've ever read.

The wing tsun strategy for combat is based on distance, and this is what I apply.
Unless I decide to fly (it happened) I'm never so far away from my enemy that I cannot see his hands. As soon as he moves an inch, I shoot an arrow step and bombard him like a machinegun.
I keep hitting untill he's uncontious, hard for him to manifest a knife then. I rely on reflexes and not on vision, which is of course far slower than hands.

I had a german instructor who had us train whith 'ghost' knives like in the article. 99% of the times fight went to the groung the armed guy had the chance to carry out his blade from various hiddings (pocket, socks, shirt etc.).
German guy politics for m.artists-bouncers, who have to involve locks, was to adpat and utilize only one arm locks while the other cecks for weapons.

In ten years of security job I encountered a knife only once.. and I lost.
I went to separate two contendants and while I was trying to cool one, the other had the good idea to stab me in the ribs. Luckily I wore, as always, a thick leather jacket and I didn't get any serious injury. But I still rcall perfectly the taste I had in my mouth afterwards. Can you believe me? I felt the taste of metal on my tongue!

I strongly believe that a knife is the most obnoxious thing to meet in the street, then a proper training in weapons is mandatory for those interested in self defense, as well as a 'delivery system' for the striking range which ALWAYS consider the possibility of a weapon (guns as well).

One of the better videos dealing with edged weapons, including in the clinch and on the ground, is Joe Maffei's "Reality of Edged Weapons."

aka Hissho

Doesn't systema teach that?

Speaking of knives, what if the guy pulles it out and is holding it while charging at you and is already too close for you to run (too risky you will get stabbed in the back or his friends are there), what to do then? I had this happen to me (he had a hudge kitchen knife too), I didn't know what to do (didn't help that I was intoxecated) so I just rolled in a ball and just got pummeled, luckily for me I didn't get stabbed because he said he knew me a bit.

And this happened because I got in a fight with his friend (at a club), and that was because his friend floored me by sucker punching me twice in the nose and kicking my face once while I was on the ground. So I found him and got a few shots off before I was seperated and kicked out. What sucked is that they lived close to me, and always hanged out together (sometimes even more if they were drinking and getting high), and I didn't have any back (friends) because that was at my grandparents house for a vacation.

for tim,
this has nothing to do with the quotes above
i just didn't know where to put it.

every striking coach i've trained with and lots of martial arts always tell us that we should
keep our punches as straight and tight as possible
but if you watch some of the best and hardest hitters in the world they use large hooks and overhands.
exemple;fedor,liddell,dan henderson,mike tyson,
sugar ray(not the band),mike zambini(greek kickboxer)etc............
so why throwing straight punches when most knock out are not?????
just wondering what are your thoughts on that?
thanks tim

tim can hear me now?
just kidding around!

Marc,

You need to know how to throw straight and round.

but why deos it seem like round punches
are more effective for ko!t

A hooking blow is more likely to have all the fighter's weight behind it because of the turning of the torso being added to the forward movement of the body and more likely to twist the head because of the angle of entry on the impact point.

Any blow that twists the head suddenly from side to side can increase the chance of knockout by affecting the brainstem or making the brain rattle about inside the skull.

Fast hooking blows are also harder to sense/see coming in unless a practitioner has developed their peripheral vision in martial terms

Tyson's hooks were very tight. The hooking hand stayed close to Tyson's body. He wasn't hitting opponents with his fist- but with his entire weight.