Is kicking or leg takedown allowed?
If his hands are higher than you what if you stick your forearm under his and push, at the same time use the other hand to strike the body or maybe uppercut? If his hands are lower then what if you break his guard from above and create a space to attack?
Also if grappling is also allowed don’t you think extending the arms like that can easily be used against him?
If you are making other videos can you ask them to focus on breaking the guard before going for the head to see what happens?
Head shot is the main concern here. Both body shot and kicks are less threaten to a grapplier than a full powerful head shot. A grapplier should not care about his opponent to play the grappling game with him. If you consider yourself as an octopus, you will love to play the clinching game with any fish.
The main purpose of this strategy is to change a striking game into a grappling game ASAP.
if you kept your hands open but in the same relative position, it might be better for self defense because it’d look less aggressive to any witnesses. Might help in a legal situation if the other person tried to sue you.
The main strategy is the “stiff arms”. Whether you use big fist or 2 separate stiff arms, the strategy is the same. here is the original SC stiff arms without the big fist.
[QUOTE=Firehawk4;1265232]What if you have multiple people attacking you ?[/QUOTE]
I assume in group fight, you still concern whether your head will be hit or not. This is the best way to protect your head from full power head shot. In any fight, if you can protect your head better, you will have much more courage.
By using this simple strategy, you head will not be hit easily.
If I was dealing with someone using that method, I would:
work on being evasive (assuming that I was trying to take advantage of striking range while the other person was not putting out strikes, but trying to avoid clinch in order to keep striking)
target the body and legs, watching for the guard to drop
Hit the head whenever the guard drops
Feint a lot in order to draw the guard, then try to strike where an opening is made
I think eventually, the person might very well get in close enough for throwing, but I would seek to make sure he wasn’t fresh anymore when it happened.
Next week I am going to record some “double spears” strategy. The
“big fist” strategy is to protect your center from inside out. You don’t let your opponent to come into your center. You try to wrap his arm when his arm is outside of your center.
“double spears” strategy is to protect your center from outside in. You invite your opponent to come into your center. You try to wrap his arm when his arm is in your center.
With both strategies, I think the anti-striking theory can be more convincing.
[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1265326]Thanks for you guy’s valuable opinions.[/quote]
It’s definitely interesting to consider different approaches and what to do if faced with them, it’s a very fun puzzle!
Next week I am going to record some “double spears” strategy. The
“big fist” strategy is to protect your center from inside out. You don’t let your opponent to come into your center. You try to wrap his arm when his arm is outside of your center.
“double spears” strategy is to protect your center from outside in. You invite your opponent to come into your center. You try to wrap his arm when his arm is in your center.
With both strategies, I think the anti-striking theory can be more convincing.
Interesting. I was wondering if there were other aspects you were planning on working. I’m looking forward to getting a more complete picture. Even aside from the anti-striking angle, this almost seems like an interesting format for working entry for throws against a striker, so that, even if someone was opting to use strikes, they could switch modes to big fist and the double spears in order to take the offensive into throwing range.
Some thoughts that came to mind watching the videos:
On the striking, maybe adding some more circular strikes (hooks, chops) so that, in practicing the drill, people don’t get the tunnel vision of expecting things coming from their front. A good striker will use straight strikes to open up circular strikes, circular strikes to open up for straight, uppercuts to open up for straights. It seems like the straight line punches and uppercuts are well represented, an occasional hook or chop would help pressure test, imo.
For the striker, they could also focus on using footwork to get slightly better angles, so that the pressure test for the person doing big hands requires them to read the footwork more.
Gloves for the striker would also compress distance (because of the higher willingness to hit), it would be interesting to try this out and see what it is like.
It would be really interesting to see how you blend this with dealing with kicks. I can see a couple approaches, but I’m really curious what approach you would take.
These points are NOT critiques of the people doing the drills, more comments on the drills and thoughts that I had regarding them.
A question:
Do you think this approach blended with slipping some strikes would open the opportunity for different throws? I ask because it relates in some ways to things I am working on now, and throws are your thing. I’m finding that when I end up in a tight sort of clinch like what the videos are showing, certain throws come up often, but if I slip a strike certain ways that give me greater access to attacking limbs and higher degree of over extension on the part of an opponent, I find the opportunity for different sorts of throws. Hope my question makes sense!
[QUOTE=Faux Newbie;1265345]I was wondering if there were other aspects you were planning on working. I’m looking forward to getting a more complete picture. Even aside from the anti-striking angle, this almost seems like an interesting format for working entry for throws against a striker, so that, even if someone was opting to use strikes, they could switch modes to big fist and the double spears in order to take the offensive into throwing range.[/QUOTE]
Besides “big fist” and “double spears”, I’m also working on “hook” (connect my body with my opponent’s body ASAP). Many years ago, a good friend of mine said, “If I keep moving back away from you, what can you do to me?” His question had bothered me for quite some time. In the past I used to believe that I can use kick and punch to set up a throw. Now I believe I have to use kick and punch to set up a “clinch”. I then use the “clinch” to set up my throw. Both “head lock (all head lock moves can be applied with over hook as well)” and “under hook (all under hook moves can be applied with waist wrap and bear hug as well)” are connect my body with my opponent’s body in close distance (arm to neck, or arm to under shoulder). I would need some “hook” on the far distance such as “wrist” and “elbow”.
This way, I can cover all the throwing “entering strategy” for
head lock,
over hook,
under hook,
waist wrap,
bear hug.
If I just add in “circle running” entering strategy for “single leg”, it’ll get more complete.
[QUOTE=wenshu;1265424]uppercuts? bodyshots?[/QUOTE]
Body shots is not included. All wrestler should be able to take some body shot IMO. If you have been thrown down on the ground 200 times daily, body shots should not bother you too much. When your opponent tries to punch at your body, his head will be open up for your head lock.
[QUOTE=Faux Newbie;1265347]Some thoughts that came to mind watching the videos:
On the striking, maybe adding some more circular strikes (hooks, chops) so that, in practicing the drill, people don’t get the tunnel vision of expecting things coming from their front. A good striker will use straight strikes to open up circular strikes, circular strikes to open up for straight, uppercuts to open up for straights. It seems like the straight line punches and uppercuts are well represented, an occasional hook or chop would help pressure test, imo.
For the striker, they could also focus on using footwork to get slightly better angles, so that the pressure test for the person doing big hands requires them to read the footwork more.
Gloves for the striker would also compress distance (because of the higher willingness to hit), it would be interesting to try this out and see what it is like.
It would be really interesting to see how you blend this with dealing with kicks. I can see a couple approaches, but I’m really curious what approach you would take.
These points are NOT critiques of the people doing the drills, more comments on the drills and thoughts that I had regarding them.
A question:
Do you think this approach blended with slipping some strikes would open the opportunity for different throws? I ask because it relates in some ways to things I am working on now, and throws are your thing. I’m finding that when I end up in a tight sort of clinch like what the videos are showing, certain throws come up often, but if I slip a strike certain ways that give me greater access to attacking limbs and higher degree of over extension on the part of an opponent, I find the opportunity for different sorts of throws. Hope my question makes sense![/QUOTE]
Those are good suggestions. IMO, the hook punch (or haymaker) are too easy to get arm wrapped.
It’s easier to
catch a roundhouse kick than to catch a front kick.
wrap a hook punch than to wrap a jab or cross.
The reason is simple. Both roundhouse kick and hook (or haymaker) are committed and you can predict the incoming path.
