1: Never use a training stance as a prefight posture.Be allert and natural.
2: He will surely try a fake blow to the head and use your reaction to go for a double leg.Treat his feint as a real attack and attack him.Use timing.
3: he may use some “Thai” kick to your leg to lower your guard or disrupt your balance.Kick his supporting leg and don’t be shy about it!
4: Don’t play his game.Make your’s better.
5: In practice,take the time to make your striking techniques potent weapons.Don’t rely on tricks or self defense.
6: look at him straight in the eyes and be aware of his whole body.(practice that aspect)
7: Don’t sparr…FIGHT!..
8: Don’t worry about style,do what you have to do even if it is not “correct”
Anybody want to add something?
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From my past experiences with sparring and fighting, I’ve learned a thing called “teaching humility”…if a guy wants to spar “friendly” and you go easy on him, he’ll say he hit you badly. You have to “teach him humility” by hitting him hard a few times..just for him to understand that you don’t wanna injure him seriously.
Two saturdays ago I was teaching a hitting/blocking drill to a guy. Sometimes he tried to hit me in the head, and said “I could’ve hit you!”..or, when I just touched him, he said: “That’s nothing!, you couldn’t knock me out with that!”. Needless to say, I told him to go full force, slapped him in the face a couple of times, and took him down 3 or 4 times. Now he understands the difference between “going easy on someone” and “realistic sparring”
A lot of guys with big mouths need some of that these days…
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I know what you are saying there, I do the same with certain students who try to get in a couple good shots to see if they can do it. This is when humility comes into play for me, I will then tap them just hard enough that it stops the aggression, or them trying to prove a point. Though I don’t have many students try this at least not in a way to prove a point, there are those few that try to test your skill. They are usually in my experience the new student who has had some sort of previous fighting skills or the the higher ranking students who think that they are ready to test thier skills with yours. Though humilty goes both way, I can’t as an teacher allow my feelings to get hurt if a student does land a punch, because this is the name of the game. Though if done to test you or to prove a point I will immediately go in and prove “My” point. But I believe as well as has been taught to me, this is also part of combat training, and I can’t let my anger prevail over training. I am sure I have done this same thing to teachers in my past.
i have to strongly agree and disagree with old jong’s number 3 “he may use some “Thai” kick to your leg to lower your guard or disrupt your balance.Kick his supporting leg and don’t be shy about it!”
if it’s a serious fight or some a$ saying that he wants to fight you because that karate crap don’t work than i would have to agree. screw him … he asked to get broken and i have no pity. however, if it’s just someone who wants to spar you better be very accurate and very careful kicking someone’s supporting leg. when all their weight is on it like that you’ll snap the knee or ankle like a twig if you “arent shy about it” and follow through. i’m not saying that it’s the perfect fight ender, guaranteed to work every time, but if you accidentally succeed in hitting the right spot (wheather you meant to or not)you just broke some poor fu cker who just wanted to see what you had. not cool. this is of course only my perception of what you meant by not being shy about it. pushing through their thigh and snap kicking are far different from stepping through someones supporting leg at a join.
alot of good points where made i just wanted to add that you should keep the same pace as he does.. what i mean by this is if he puts power and speed in his techqiues strikes etc.. then you should as well.. but if you get the feelin his holding back then by all means hold back.. get a good feel of him first before you total trash him.. he might just want to do some friendly sparring..
If you want to beat a NHB fighter then it is essential that you make eye-contact or you will lose for sure.
Eye-contact is the most essential part of kung fu. How are you supposed to see them if you don’t make eye-contact.
For example. Let’s say your fighitng me. Then all of a sudden you decide to look out the window. Then you can’t see me and i can hit you. Let’s say that you start looking at my hands. Then You won’t be able to see the window anymore and someone could fly threw the window and hit you from behind. If you look in my eye’s however you will be able to see the reflection of the window in my eyes and you will know if someone is flying threw the window and trying to attack you from behind.
“2: He will surely try a fake blow to the head and use your reaction to go for a double leg.Treat his feint as a real attack and attack him.Use timing.”
I don’t agree with this. Most morons won’t know techniques like that. Unless they know wrestling or something.
Most morons use wild haymakers or just try to rush you.
It is a method of not fixing your intent on any one particular thing, allowing your mind (which is followed by the body) to not be drawn in away from any possible opening you may present your opponent (thereby eliminating those openings).
