The Worst Techniques I've Ever Been Taught

A joint lock (kote gaeshi) from a handshake.
It worked moderately well when I tried it, but the point is that it takes a real asshole to submit someone from a handshake.

ha yeah, I remember that one. I was like, “Why would you ever do this?” and my instructor was like, “If someone y’know, squeezes your hand to hard or . . . hell, I don’t know. My teacher taught it to me and my ribs still hurt from yesterday so we’re doing this instead of sparring”

would you believe I learned a submission and a take down that works pretty good … yes … from a handshake … I just filed it away as a ninja move with the other "handshake defenses "…

Ah, yes the good ol’ southern japanese handshake. It’s what got the Americans into WWII, you know. All that hibby-jibby about cruiseliners going down… pssha. It was a handshake gone bad.

In a style that won’t be mentioned.There are self-defence moves that are thought.One in particular stands-out in my mind.

Victim stands in front of his Opponent.Opponent sends a right punch to the head of the Victim.Victim responds by blocking high with the left arm.That makes sense .Right?

And this is when it gets retarded.Opponent is uninjured and very aware.So at this point 1st person then moves toward and turns under the opponents right arm to lift the opponent up and over the back.

So while Victim is contemplating the move… the opponent then responds with a left-hook punch to the Victim’s chin.Game over!

" intuitive footwork"

The worst technique that I have ever seen is not just one single technique. Its the idea that first you block and then you punch or viceverce. When blocking one should be punching at the same time or at least damaging the oposition in some way.
If I punch at you, you will block, then you will punch and I will block. Two hours later one of us will have to buy the beer.
Karate and Kali when taught correctly will block and punch at the same time.
In most southern styles of Kung Fu this is taught as the basics.
When you get the block/punch down usualy they add a kick in there somewhere.
SO you’re blocking, kicking, and punching at the same time. Ya just have to do a few hours of chi gurk so ya don’t loose ya balence.

I’m gonna try that next class.

worst technique i’ve ever learned was blocking a thai kick with ur wrists… the result breakin ur dam wrists lol

in my ninja RBWI class (Robert bussey something…) i was told that if someone is shooting at me, just roll sideways and switch wich way to roll as to throw the shooter off.

But it can come in handy on days you aren’t in the mood for anyone’s crap and some asshole tries to be slick and give you the “you’re my bitch” type handshake. I’ve never done it myself, but I was sooooo tempted to when meeting an old girlfriend’s brother for the first time.

Kenpo techniques that end up breaking the guy’s elbow from a handshake . . . multiple techniques that break a guy’s elbow from a handshake. Terrible, just terrible.

In karate they showed me how I can break someone’s arm using a cirlce block if they grab my coat near my shoulder. Problem is it only works if the grabber grabs me, doesn’t let go, and doesn’t hit me or anything. Yeah, way useful.:jerkit2yf

whats the “you’re my bitch” type handshake?

-After throwing a person onto their back, do your horse stance over their chest, lean over, and throw a flurry of handstrikes to their face, including a 3 stooges eye gouge.

-Jump straight up and bring your knees up. At the same time, bring your hands down to the inside of your ankles. This is to mimic grabbing for the knives you have stashed in each sock.

But my personal best is

-“Crane swoops down, picks up fish.” Bend down very low so you can strike a pressure point on the top of someone’s foot with your beak hand. Of course, it’s done while you stand only on one leg.

IN a TKD class I attended, they taught not to extend your shoulder into the punch because all he’d have to do is cresent kick the shoulder and dislocate it at that point.

Same class. They had us do forms and stances. They harped on how important it was to learn the basic stance because they will help you fight. Then we learned the “fighting” stance, which was more like a boxing stance and nothing like the other stuff.

Once, I was actually taught to turn my head toward somebody and bite them in the ribs if they were to get me into a headlock.

Bite em! P-Dub ! Bite-em !

Erm, are you talking about self-defence, or during grappling training ??

Hey porch : “-“Crane swoops down, picks up fish.””
Sticking a great bony smelly CRANE’S BEAK in their foot would HURT, and give them a nasty infection. I approve.

This was in a silly self defense seminar I went to when I was a kid.

It’s heads or tales between offensively biting someone on the groin (kina mutai) and
putting baby powder in a nasal spray bottle to blind an attacker (Ashida Kim how you betrayed a young boy’s dreams).