Anything from west wind bok fu/Kempo. Wasted years practising the techniques, wondering why my punchs had now power. I’d do the techniques in the air, as recommended- they were too deadly to do on an opponnet, and then his the bag the same way, and it hardly moved. Live and learn
Cheesus Christ.
Wow.
They actually thought that was good advice?
Knife defense: If a person were to attempt to stab you in the stomach with a perfectly straight arm, reach out with both hands and grab a hold of the arm. Proceed to spin around so your back in facing them still with the arm in your hands and steb backwards, thrusting the opponents own knife into himself.
This is a bonus since the opponent stabbed himself: there’s no ensuing lawsuit! :S
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My mate tried to teach me something like that, where you do a crappy circular block, grab the arm (perfectly straight as usual) and then stab the opponent in their leg.
In karate I was taught I could disarm an attacker with a gun using a crescent kick. Not only is that incredibly stupid, it’s insanely dangerous.
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I was taught by a red belt at my old TKD mcdojo to do that against a knife. That’s stupid enough, but a GUN? What the hell?!
My mate (the same one as above (he’s a bit of a twat:laughing7 )) tried to show me his knife defence. I stabbed at him with a rubber knife and instead of trying to control the arm holding the knife, he was trying to control the other arm, the one without the knife, by putting it in a crappy armlock.
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Of course, then I was able to hit him with the knife.
Lard grab. Grab opponent’s beer gut near the ribs and twist.
Fingernail attack. There is a pressure point for pain 1/3 of the way up the finger nail.
Which finger nail? All of them?
This was in Killology. I was pretty non-sequitor. They writer just gets on a tangent about in a life and death situation. thumb punch somebody in the eye. Push your thumb as far back as you can. Bend your thumb and rip it out.
He said this was taught in a self-defense class. The funny part was that a woman in California actually did it to a mugger. His screaming and bleeding shook her up so bad she passed out. Then he self-defense instructer made the women practice with oranges and the “assailante” would scream to similate the actual response.
Just a quck issue even though it’s old~
X blocking knife attacks is just bad. You are just asking for a nice deep cut to the top of your forearm as the knife hand withdraws, especially if you miss your grab. A lot of the bad knife defenses I have seen seem to assume that a knife attack requires the same amount of force/commitment as a punch and at the same time underestimate the speed of the knife hand. That knife will probably be traveling as fast or faster than a decent boxers jab.
The premise also seems to be that I am going to be aiming for your body when your arms and hands (or even legs if you are kicking) are just as, if not more likely to be targets. I spend nearly half my blade sparring time specifically targetting hands, whether they are holding anything or not.
If you want to de-bullshido knife defenses, find a repuptable FMA place and ask them if they will help you out.
But yeah, had to throw that in there; I have been on the giving end of people trying the same defense anatrocity mentioned. Only seemed to half-work when I threw single straight attacks as if I was trying to drive the knife through concrete.
I agree on the X block thing, though (because I don’t reallk know that much about knife fighting) more from the view that blocking one hand with both of mine probably isn’t very sensible.
Kamae: The proper fighting stance is at an oblique angle, the foward arm sticking out at an obtuse, the hand of the rear arm reaching about as far as the elbow of the lead arm. Fists may be open or closed, but for the next couple techniques we are to assume the hands are open.
If your foe launches a straight punch at your lead hand, simply tilt your hand at a45. This will readjust the angle of his punch towards your shoulder and cause it to harmlessly skid out of the way!
But what if he launches it right down the pipe? In this case, catch his fist with your rear hand and use your lead to rotate his elbow into an armbar. If you’re good at visualization, you’ll realize both these techniques utilize the same motion of simply tilting your hand at a 45 degree angle. Such is the magic of Isshin-Ryu.
Forgot to mention: It’s important to understand you are not rotating your hand so that you guide the punch away from your face (i.e. palm up), but rather toward (palm down).
From my years as a totally hardcore and not at all geeky, awkward and shy (but trying desperately to cover it up) practicioner of the vietnamese martial arts:
Well, first of all, elbows were the solution to every problem. He kicks? Elbow his feet. He’s too far away? Rush in and close while frantically elbowing at as many insanity causing angles as possible. Want to be loved by others but scared of the pain that you will feel when they get inside your defenses (IE the hedgehog’s dilemma)? Elbow your way right the fuck out of that pussy shit, son!
1: Stepping from cat stance into a really low horse stance in order to elbow opponent’s thigh.
2: Doing a forward roll into an inside trip as you elbow him in the crotch. Did I mention this was a gun defence?
3: Spinning reverse upward hooking elbows (as in the elbow is brought from low to high behind you). Actually turning your back and back bumping him to accomplish several of these. Brought to you by the guy who repelled the mongols.
4: Counting the number of strikes you can get off a quick up-down elbow motion, going up from his sternum to his throat, chin, lip, nose and then down again through all those from the forehead. It resembled those coin blocks in super mario brothers that you hit really fast for multiple coins, in that you were trying to get a high score out of a number of short, percussive, jerking motions.
5: Visualizing holding a ball between our palms then rotating our arms around for a thrusting elbow
6: An eye poking cat stance thing, which was supposedly this amazingly deadly secret but which looked actually coquettish and…um…flirty.
It’s worth noting that the guy who taught me this stuff was a genuine southeast asian badass, vietnam paratrooper who kept a pistol in his desk and was probably fucking his secretary who talked constantly about how martial arts are meant for warfare. The kind of person who could make a silatist jizz smoking holes in his sarong merely by existing.
The fact that a good portion of his teaching was crap should be an object lesson to everyone who thinks they can absorb [strike]tough[/strike]tuffness through osmosis.
Ever heard this one? Women shouldn’t do certain kata during their period because it can cause them to bleed to death?
Even if this were true why would you ever do this kata?
Long Range Arm Swinging>> Fancy term for drunken haymaker>>
Some may disagree with me on this one but, any type of long range arm swinging is total BS. Not only is it extremly telegraphed, but if the range is that long why are you punching? To make this worse I was told to lean way forward putting almost all my weight on the forward leg. Takedowns don’t exist in this world so don’t worry.
What BS…lolz… though i swear when I am on my more heavy days … sweating down there … DOES … NOT… HELP… sorry TMI… 
ewww! 
The horror…the horror…waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Old law enforcement trick for waking up passed out drunks: You take a pen, lay it flat over their cuticles, and squeeze the bottom of the their fingers and the top of the pen, crushing under their nails. People jump awake pretty fast!
You grab someone by the cheek (thumb goes into mouth) and pull them to the ground as hard as possible.
-Sitting on someone’s chest and puncing them repeatedly in the face.
Works nicely for sports/entertainment, but in real life, while it could defeat your attacker, it might make you look like an attacker in the eyes of the law.
-Any grappling technique where you’re wrapped up on the ground with your back or head exposed.
Probably another one good for sport/entertainment or 1:1 situations, but not for real life where the bad*** attacking you has some friends, and you’re immobale and totally open on the ground.
Jzs, SHUT THE FUCK UP, you flaming, idiotic, non-practicing, chi-believing, woo-woo, fuckstick.
Easy there. He’s sorta right. Going to the ground is good if you know what you’re doing, but you can forget me laying on my back like a turtle waiting for someone to get close enough for me to kick him.
There are worse ways of ending a street fight than mounting someone and raining down punches…such as being mounted and getting worked over, then having them rob you and screw your girlfriend beside your KTFO’d ass. I’d rather be the “aggressor” than be the alternative.