Ha Ha Ha! I hadn't thought of that Roland.
Tom Yum, No I wasn't talking to you. I was refering to Hapkidoist. I hate when people think their dirty tactics will make up for not having any real skills. You made some real and valid points about dirty tactics and their application.
ryanhall, you always make good well thought out responses. I agree that you can train dirty tactics with some level of realism. We certainly do that in our gym, but our focuss is on performance and performance enhancement and we tend to focuss more on things that can be tested and tried real time. I think you need to make that your base and add the dirty stuff to that. If you base your whole self defence training on dirty tactics it will never work well. I know I'm preaching to the choir here.
I've never worried much about breaking hands fingers etc. while punching. If I hit you hard enough in the face to break my hand I'll take that trade! I've broken a finger and a toe here and there while sparring, and you know what, you can keep going. You can even kick and punch with the break if you have to. I know because I've done it. I don't have a super tollerance for pain. It is just the adrenaline of the situation really masks the pain. Certainly I'd rather not break my hand, but I won't be thinking about that when a real situation arrises. I'm gonna rain them down until i feel satisfied! |