What's your number one technique?

[Michael Wright]

Genuinely curious.

I'm preferably looking for your number one percentage technique that you always fall back on when things get tough. In the ring, in a real encounter, or just something that you always pull off sweet in training - up to you.

Let me know what it is, why it seems to fit you, and maybe some examples of when you've really nailed it.

Hope this fits in the JKD theme, I think so.

[Tant01]

Hadaka jime. Never had much use for striking in general. Just about any time you can get behind someone it's there for the taking. Choke on...Nite-nite time!

[Liberty]

Eye gouge with my thumb. Nothings made me smile like gouging at someone's eye when they've latched on to me. And having been on it's receiving end as well I know the continous throbbing pain it induces for sometime after the fight is over. So far, though, I've been lucky and not gouged anyone's eye out. People have usually submitted rather quickly. I've not been in a street altercation of any kind in some time, so maybe I've retired it!

[Michael Wright]

Originally Posted by Liberty

Nothings made me smile like gouging at someone's eye when they've latched on to me!

You're pretty sick Lib!

[Liberty]

Originally Posted by Michael Wright

You're pretty sick Lib!

Welcome to han's eyeland, mr roper.

[Ghost]

for definite my left hook.
I can land it well and its my most powerful punch though i am right handed.
I just have the technique down on this and i get a lot of comments on it in gyms. Its what i do best so id say thats my best technique.

Second to it would be my jab. i guess i combinate off the left a lot.

[Hardball]

Right cross because as Bruce Lee says in the Tao, "it's the heavy artillery."

[Britt]

In a ring, probably right cross or right elbow, maybe switch kick to the liver, or fake switch kick then right cross when they drop their hands to cover. For sport grappling, I've had a lot of luck lately with a keylock with the legs from side control like in this picture.

For self-defense, running.

[Mike Brewer]

In the ring, my cross. In the street, headbutts.

I've knocked a lot of folks down/out with a left cross (I fight southpaw), and the year before last it managed to claim three different heavybag chains. I've always had a lot of natural power in my hands, and I've never had any problems with them getting hurt because they're the size of canned hams. Big, dense bones and a lot of gloveless training when I was younger, I guess.

As far as "actual" fighting, I've had a lot of luck with headbutts. They're sneaky, and you can do them without a lot of warning or telegraphing. I've "accidentally" whacked guys in the face with a headbutt in bar fights to soften them up for removal and had them just drop. The most noteworthy, though, was a situation in which I very nearly managed to end my own life. I was jogging ner Vunak's place in Mission Viejo (Michael, if you remember the road we used to take to get to the little Chinese Restaurant, you'll know right where I'm talking about). I was wearing a PFS shirt and throwing punches as I ran, so I guess I drew too much attention. I heard a bottle slam onto the pavement and felt the shrapnel, so I turned around all hostile. A car stopped and three guys got out wanting to fight. Long story short, I grabbed the guy closest to me and headbutted him hard. I had intended to follow up with some elbows and such, but he fell right out of my hands like he'd been shot dead. It even startled me at the time. I hit the guy coming around the front of the car with a short straight-blast flavored combination (I'm sure it was nowhere near as pretty, but it pushed him back against the car and allowed me to make a break for it). I don't recall ever seeing the third guy, because as soon as I had a chance, I bolted and jumped that acoustic wall near the road that kept the noise out of people's back yards. That's where the killing myself came in.

This all happened at night, so naturally, it was pretty dark. When I took my flying leap over the five or six foot wall, I did not realize that on the other side, it was about a twelve or thirteen foot wall. I hit the ground very, very unexpectedly and drove both my knees right up into my chest and chin. Nearly knocked myself cold. I meandered around the neighborhoods for a while until I recognized a street that would get me back to Paul's house, and the adrenaline kept me from realizing how bad I'd done myself in. I woke up the next day with what felt like a broken back, and for some reason, my elbows were all swollen up. Still not sure how that happened. I'd have probably been better off had I lost the fight and let them kick the piss out of me. Oh well. Lessons learned, eh?

[migo]

I don't get in street fights, I just avoid situations that might put me in one. I don't drink except in very specific circumstances and I avoid bars and clubs that have a good chance of having fights break out. Been pretty damn reliable so far, so I don't know what my favourite street technique is (or that I'll even keep my composure).

For competition and sparring it's definitely the triangle choke with left leg hooking my right ankle. Other way around I don't do it so much. It's a rather lopsided part of my game and I'm starting to avoid using it in training to work my other areas, especially since a bruised calf kills my triangle. It's not too good having 1 money move that a minor injury can take out of my toolbox. It's cool to have a technique I'm so good at, but at the same time it sucks to be so reliant on it.

[Doug]

best technique?

For me it varies, because i cross train in 5 arts i can use movements from them all, at the moment i love panantukan so the Secoh (guiding the opponents punch into your elbow to shatter his knuckles) and gunting maneuvers (hard strikes to the major muscle groups in the limbs) this causes extreme pain in the limb to the point that the opponent simply cannot use the muscle.

Also in a street fight i love the Thai elbow blitz, slip the cross the come in with 6 or 7 elbows to the face, head and throat.

[Liberty]

Originally Posted by Doug

best technique?

For me it varies, because i cross train in 5 arts i can use movements from them all, at the moment i love panantukan so the Secoh (guiding the opponents punch into your elbow to shatter his knuckles) and gunting maneuvers (hard strikes to the major muscle groups in the limbs) this causes extreme pain in the limb to the point that the opponent simply cannot use the muscle.

Also in a street fight i love the Thai elbow blitz, slip the cross the come in with 6 or 7 elbows to the face, head and throat.

Doug, or anyone else, for that matter, your post reminds me of something I've been curious about regarding the Blend thing. I at times experience issues with dyslexia (mix up letters, I then have to unmix, execute techqniue the opposite of what I'd intended, unwrap a health bar, throw the bar out, rather than the wrapper, etc). Even now, I have had to to constantly proofread what I've written. So I'm curious about the following from that: My question is how do you go from one art to another in the heat of things when they have, say technique(s) similar to each other for a sitituation? Can you, or do you just pick a specific thing from one art and work/train it, rather than train/work each one similar fom each art? I hope this does not set off some sort of backlash, etc. It's so often the case something like this cannot be legitemately discussed due to that. I sincerely wish to know how that works when you have, in your case, 5arts. Thanks in advance.

[Doug]

really it depends, when i train, i train 1 at a time, unless im freestyling with a partner doing the same, when it comes down to the heat of things i dont really think, you tend to just use the techniques that you have learned when the situations arise. but i do somtimes think -ok if he throws a ........ then ill come in with......- im sure youve done the same in your arts.
i hope that aunwsers your questions liberty, if you have any more ask away

[Liberty]

Thanks for getting back to me, Doug.

What I mean is, do you for example train techniques that are similar in those 5 arts?

Say, for example, that 3 of them are Muy Thai, Western Boxing and Savate - would you train all three of their versions of a left cross, pick and choose between them, etc - that type of thing?

[Doug]

Originally Posted by Liberty

Thanks for getting back to me, Doug.

What I mean is, do you for example train techniques that are similar in those 5 arts?

Say, for example, that 3 of them are Muay Thai, Western Boxing and Savate - would you train all three of their versions of a left cross, pick and choose between them, etc - that type of thing?

no, not really, the arts that i have chosen all complement each other, eg the technique for executing a cross in each of my arts is the same ( using body mechanics, twisting the hips etc.)
for me its just like practicing one really big art just in different parts, what i end up with is a sort of toolbox of techniques, to use when the situations come up.

Thai gives me knowledge of defencive structure and striking power, panantukan is awesome for street defence, Kali provides arm strength and co-ordination, and weapon defence skills and jun fan and grappling give me skills for extreme close range and trapping situations, and ground skills respectively