when your life is on the line , you will do anything and everything that might give you anykind of edge and not waste anytime on things do give obvious and quick results
Yes - some systems are better than others, NO DOUBT. If you could only take one system to the desert island…would you bring TKD !!! LOL.
BUT crosstraining HAS to be done to survive that fight-to-the-death deal…because no one system has all the answers to the questions that you might have to face - regardless of HOW GOOD that system is.
SO MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING ELSE - is how YOU train and the intensity YOU bring to the process - not what system you train in.
It’s the INDIVIDUAL that is the most important factor in the story.
What you says is man vs. man. Let say you know me being a small guy can only pull you. If I try to pull you and hit, the result is quite unsatisfactory still. Now, let say I’m blinding you by throwing sand into your eyes (darkness - Heaven), and pull you into the tree (Earth), I think you got the picture. Ha! Ha!
It would be too late then. Ha! Ha! But the main idea is to win by superior powers against his lone force. In this case I borrow the terrain and combat conditions to work in my favor.
The best fight is when you know how to use the enviroment against him! Why hurts your hands? But man against man, beside skills you can mostly count on having greater courage, greater power and endurance. One thing at the time, it’s easier and more fun to concentrate on skills at the moment.
A useful question for focussing on the important stuff…
When I thought about Ernie’s question I came up with the following. The answers for me personally in the following order of importance were…
Train more against live force, resisting opponents.
Work on conditionning more.
Work on increasing striking power.
Number 1 I had to move outside WC to address. It shouldnt be that way and if you’re lucky it wont be the case at your school but it was for me.
As for 2 and 3 well I never really bought into the 3 second WC, anti-strength training kabal.
Just recently I’ve been a bit demoralized and so I’ve been slacking off.
Got to get my arse in gear !
Just curious how would you train people who can’t do the things that you do like a woman? Not intended to be a sexist comment but woman is not exactly built like a man. They are different.
jump in the ring with kathy long she is a pro boxer and kick boxer i know and i would beg to differ
as for the rest of normal ladies well size is size and most arn’t built for head to head battle ,
if i had to train a girl it would be more in the filipino system , it’s just a more ballistic dirty tactic approach
i doubt many 90 pound chicks are going to drop a p issed off 200 pound dude
just like if i square up to a 300 pound in shape athletic dude and i have . i will get my head handed to me and i did
not being sexist , i would train my mother or sister to fight dirty , be in shape enough to run , sceam draw attention
hell i might be right next to them running and screaming if the situation was that bad
i would teach them sensitivity drills , head butt knee ,elbow stuff biting and i would tell them to learn the ground game
weapons would be a must anything that can equalize the playing field
my own girl friend can box and kick box i have taught her the clinch , head butt knee and elbow flows as well as biting
i have her working some sticks [ just last night as a matter of fact ]
her boxing and thai skills are getting good , she hits the wieghts 3 times a week and runs twice a week
and i have seen here drop a guy with a right cross in a bar in mexico , she then tossed him over a rail while squeezing his throat . all this happened 5 feet away from me and was over before i got there
when a girl gets upset powerful things can happen .
