That’s why I said he’s sorta right.
Opponent punches
Sidestep and outward block, then twist wrist to grab the punching arm
Step in so that your standing hip-to-hip with opponent - facing the same direction
Using your free hand (the one that’s closest to your opponent), place the pinky side of your hand under their nose, then just push back and they will ever so compliantly fall to the ground
No need for a nice punch here folks, and sweeps are for fools - you’ve got the nose-push of doom.
I learned to do a crossover shin kick from that same position.
I win.
“You don’t need to spar.” I was taking praying mantis kung fu then, there was also the kick the gun out of the attackers hand.
Eh pardon me for not reading the entire 31 pages, but what about this one:
I was taught this one novelty strike where you vertical punch with your thumb sticking straight out. That was from his lethal bag of “chi” tricks.
Was that an overall punching technique or was it specefically for a certain area? I’m not sure but if someone were to have a strong enough thumb and if they hit the chest (dead center) and pushed upwards a little bit would that be able to knock the wind out of them? It’s something I heard (though not with the thumb bit),I’m not asserting any belief in this, I’m just wondering if that’s how it could work.
The idea flowed into the “hard/soft” philosophy of Isshin-Ryu. In this case, it was done to illustrate the principle that the hardest punch is the one you don’t expect. Most people think of this in terms of sucker punches, but Sensei believed you could achieve the same result by lightly touching someone, “tricking” their muscles into relaxing, then nailing their ass. So in this case, the idea was to strike with the thumb first so their body is like “oh that’s not so bad” with the fist trailing behind a half-second later.
Did I mention my teacher was utterly retarded?
Wow. Now THAT’s some quality Bullshido, right there.
My favorite was learning a takedown from a cop. He used a version of Kote Gaeshi (sp?), and when he demonstrated on one of my fellow students, the student realized he had a hand free to windmill on the cop. The cop’s response was ‘It never happens like that on the street. You’d be too surprised.’
Ooh! Ground defense from a cop:
If you find yourself on the ground with opponent standing, then the best position is to curl your knees up to your chest, and keep your hands over your face.
If your opponent decides to - I don’t know - CASUALLY WALK to where your head is and start kicking you, then you will without fail be able to scrunch around on your back faster than said opponent so that your feet will always be pointing at the attacker.
Right or wrong, you don’t train grappling and therefore have no room to talk.
Yeah, that sucks. Your legs should be extended a little to block kicks and check his hips, ad you should be using a rocking motion between your hips and upper back to follow him. These are minor points though, since you have little grappling training and probably can’t even describe this technique right.
Your legs should be extended a little to block kicks and check his hips, and you should be using a rocking motion between your hips and upper back to follow him.
Why would you not use your arms to pivot your body? In the ground defense I was taught, we held our legs in the position you describe - with the caution of not crossing them over each other - but to keep our hands on the ground for faster movement, bringing them up in defense when the person tries to come in. Why should you keep your hands over your head when they aren’t in an attacking range?
Kidney kicks from under mount.
The guy on top can just step on one of your hands. I’ve done it to all the new white belts who try using their hands to push instead of rocking.
Crushed metacarpals. Gotcha, thanks - I’ll keep that in mind.
Worst technique I was ever taught was on a course with a supposed “weapons specialist”.
It was basically a defence for those occasions where a guy walks up behind you with a huge shotgun and announces “Dis is a stick-up”, and places it in your lower back.
Now, the technique itself might not be the worst possible one to use in this situation. If you’re desperate. And you love T.J. Hooker.
The jist of it was to spin round really really quickly, knocking the gun to one side with the forearm, and continue the motion so you end up behind your shocked, helpless assailant.
We were in a very small room and for realism, they’d loaded the shotgun with some kind of blank cartridge, so there was a flash, an almighty bang, followed by ringing in my ears for two days.
On this day, however, the execution (apt wording!) was a little lacking. The teacher had to continue teaching this ultra effective technique with a gi covered in powder burns, while he bellowed instructions because we were all temporarily deaf.
Worst technique I was ever taught was to defend against a straight punch with a skipping sidestep twistkick, followed by a roundhouse and finally the allmighty ax kick:karated:
Knife defence instruction from my eternally bullshitting instructor. He was selling a course on knife defence, and was inviting parents/spouses of the club to participate (their money’s just as good as…):
Instructor “This technique is foolproof. It’s 100% effective against any knife strike. You can even use it against swords and machetes. It is so easy, anyone can do it after just a few minutes of instruction.”
Enlightened parent: “Isn’t it dangerous?”
Instructor (missing the point entirely) “It’s ok, we don’t use real knives, and we only do it really slowly.”
Seriously, the only pressure test that prick ever did was when inflating his blow-up doll.
oh… the technique was a haito-uchi ridgehand to the inside of the attacker’s wrist. D34dly.
Horseback stance.
That’s not a technique… that’s something that the instructor makes you stand in when:
1)He hasn’t prepared enough for the lesson and needs to waste 20 minutes.
2)He wants to chat up one of the spectators and doesn’t want you studs to make him look bad. Who can look cool while they’re astride an imaginary horse?
3)He’s not getting any at home, and the frustration makes him just want to spread the hate.
I’m not bitter…:angry2:
You must remember that horseback stance is the linchpin of TKD stupidity. Without it, there is no “I know! Let’s fight with our hands ar our hips!” and no “I know! Let’s block low kicks with out hands!”.:angry5: