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Originally Posted by Mr. Arieson  Against who? In the yuppy circles I run with, what do I have to worry about? Getting chased down by some banker with madness in his eyes?
You get in a simple fight, injuries like a black eye or fat lip are easy to explain to the cops. Missing eyes are not.
Even if charges are not pressed against you, there will be lawsuits, and you will lose because you thought is was a good idea to use Kung Fu eye -gouging techniques, perfected by shaolin monks centuries ago.
Martial arts like wrestling, boxing, thai boxing or BJJ are excellent for subduing or controlling someone without maiming them for life. it's self defense, practical for 99% of the fights you will get in.
Unless you live on the streets of war torn beirut, or are in prison, or in the middle of a gang fight, fish hooking and eye gouging are not a good idea.
Anything more serious comes up, like a home invasion by professional criminals, I have security alarms, guns and loud dogs. And the police are usually actually able to save you when you call them.
Naive on my part? Possibly, but I just don't see the use for those techniques, at least in the sense that taking a martial art that supposedly specializes in those things is superior to a sport martial art.
Sport martial arts are done against live, realistic partners. But with what old "tiger claw" is using, you can't even really practice eye gouging, therefore in a real situation are you 100% you could use it effectively? |
1) Im not talking about a fight, Im talking about a selfdefence situation, where youve got some crazed moron trying to do more than just bash you around a bit.
2)Id personally rather explain why his eyes are missing than have him explain why Im lyeing dead in a gutter
3)Im not really talking about kung fu crap, more just the simple attacks to the groin, eyes, etc etc, that anyone can do (that dont take years to perefect like kung fu teachers would have you think)
4) I never claimed or implied wrestling bjj Mt etc arent good at what they do, I duno why you have brought them up
5) Im not for this Kung fu being superior to everything else because it uses eye gouging etc etc bla bla junk, I dont agree with it as youl see In my past post on this topic.
The whole reason I asked you was I think its rediculous to ridicule attacking those points just because its a bit excessive, Id always keep them as an option.