Had a guy at an old gym tell me to strike your way out of being mounted. I guess he never thought of getting armbared. This is also a guy who lucked into a title due to anothers serious lack of depth perception (slipped through the roped and broke his tibia but the ref didn’t see the slip and called the fight cuz he went down). So now he thinks everything he has to say about anything concerning fighting is pure fucking gold. i find it funny that this uber badass won’t spar with me without uneven rules. I guess if it were fair he’d get worked and wouldn’t be the huge awesome fighter that he is.
When I was a kid I went to a karate camp and got to train with different black belts from the kai. One time I asked the guy who was teaching me what I should do if I was bear hugged by a huge guy, pinning his arms.
Answer: “I would lean forward, bite the guy’s nose off, chew it up, and swallow it. I mean, really, who wants to mess around with a guy who eats noses?”
Response to a body slam: grab the guy by the collarbone and pull sharply. This will snap the collarbone and cause the neck to collapse INTO the body. Seriously, the body just collapses in on itself. Like a zelda monster.
- Confessions of a former Ninjer.
Could apply this to martial arts or power in general.
The only caveat for TMAs is that many of them claim to provide the d34dly without having to invest so much into it. (Effort/Strength/etc-wise) or a d34dly that they claim is above all otehrs.
Your caveat is what I was referring to. The idea that you can be dangerous without being strong, fast, flexible, etc. is catered to by McDojos that usually practice TMA.
all really bad techniques, and I’ve seen all of them taught too. By the way fingertip strikes are possible, but take months of training and proper mechanics that I’ve not seen anyone ever do. You can punch someone on the top of the knee and drop them, but it’s not a good idea unless you wind up in a bad shoot position. Fingers to the eyes work, I’ve used them in a real fight, but having your index finger in someone’s eye is not a great experience and you then have to control the situation so as not to blind the bitch, because the law takes a dim view of it.
Right… Enjoy what is bound to be a short stay here on bullshido.
i do about 20 push ups on my fingers a day, and that still would never work. someone did it to me once and his fingers got all blue
oh yeah, but only works on dead or wheelchair bound people. unfortunately it doesnt drop them cause neither group feels it.
sorry
Two replies, hmm, one, I never have done fingertip pushups to condition the hands. In order to condition the fingertips for board breaks, we did this for approximately two years:
Form traditional Okinawan style finger strike, hit solid objects til your fingers bleed, strike harder objects with more force as you get tougher, (I finished my training on an aluminum phone box) Eventually, you can hit very hard objects with a good amount of force without pain or apparent injury to your hands, but the key lies in finding someone who knows the proper technigue for forming the fist. I never found an American who did. I used the technique to break single boards for my 1st dan testing in Chun do Kwan. As to using fingers to attack, I’ve used them twice in 25 years, a thumb gouge to a mugger outside Camp Humphreys in Korea, and the index fingers to a standing guy that worked as a driver for the hotel I managed, and with my right index slid in next to his eyeball, I was able to lead him around very much like some akidoka.
A spear hand to any hard or large body target is a waste of time, even JKD stylists:bunny: use finger jabs as leads to the eyes.
As for punching to the knee dropping someone, worked for me…but I don’t fight in the ring.
That’s one of the main reasons why my instructor stopped taking Ishhin ryu because of in one of the forms they have you do a spear hand to the rib cage.
We teach the spear hand but we teach it to go either for the eyes or the throat.
I’m starting to suspect BJJ should annex the eye gouge from the cannon of TMA technique to part of our self-defense, since it looks like we’re the only ones with a fucking clue how to do it properly.
Yeah, let’s have Helio retconn it into the Master Text errata.
You can have the eye gouge… and take the oil check as you go.
neck scratch, i kid you not, you capture the punching arm (say its his right) with your left armpit, step forward onto your right foot so you’re closer to him, and use your nails to scratch his neck like some kind of cat. no mention was made of what he might use his other hand for, why i couldn’t use my free hand to punch him i dont know.
Annex?
It was already there in the hidden books of gospel.
The New Testamanet of BJJ Apocrypha
or the Books of Gnostic Gracie Jujitsu if you will.
Written by Carlson but coveted by the Gracie family
only now has the forbidden techniques such as the eye gouge, the oil check, and the nuthug been finally revealed to the rest of the world.
i took karate when i was younger, shit made sense to me then. or rather i didn’t question it.
only thing recently that i haven’t liked is some ground work my judo instructor has said/done. the week or two before winter break he told us kata gatame (shoulder pin in judo, basically a head n arm triangle with a gable grip only) couldn’t be a choke. i dunno what he was thinking when he said that.
I went along to a friend’s karate class, and wasn’t impressed. Chambered punches and knife hands ahoy.
Say WHAT?!. Of course it’s a choke. With the gable grip it’s very similar to the way a basic hadaka jime works. It’s teh d34dly! How old/experienced is your Judo instructor?
Well frankly turning it into a choke kinda loses the point. The whole point of kata gatame is that because of the pressure it puts on the neck and shoulder it is very painful, and can be used to submit your opponent, but it is not actually counted as a joint lock, so juniors can use it to tap out people in competitions without having to hold the pin for half a minute.