unusual techniques

[Kingston]

There are ways to stay calm in a confrontation. It is always better if your able to be more relaxed. Alot of it has to do with breathing. BUT, if your style requires to much concentration, or any amount of thought while going throw techniques you could have trouble if you get to exited. Most people aren't "profesional" enough to stay completly calm. Though i have complete confidence that some people can get throw high stress situations without tensing up.

the thing about "real life" is that fancy techniques dont work the same as they do in practice. Its ugly looking. All you have to do is tell your partner "ok tackle me at full speed" or any other type of attack you want. You mite fall over, you mite stay up, your partner mite end up still holding on to you, he mite let go. There is nothing that works the same way everytime, training techniques the same way everytime is not reality, its learning how to dance.

The reason you cant get off a high kick is simple, you dont have time. well you have the "time" to make the kick, but because no ones first reaction to a punch flying at their face, or a diving tackle is to put there leg over their head, you wont be able to pull it off. One thing you can always do is move.

Fancy techniques wont confuse anyone. What will confuse them is when they try and punch but are stoped because you hit them first!

even though fancy techniques are hard to even get off, once you do there is no garuntee that all that effort will work for your benefit, you miss, you dont get a solid hit, your off balace, he hits you AS you conect with the kick.......

Sport fighting is another deal. you have time to think, study, warmup, test. In a real fight all you can do is react, and it wont look all nice and fancy either.

I do want to make one other point though. people should not be afraid to try certain things, IF you CAN pull something off by all means do it. BUT dont make it some kind of street strategy. "they usualy come in like this, so ill do technique A i learned, then he's gunna do this, so i'll then go to technique B....if those dont work i'll fall back on technique C" AINT GUNNA HAPPEN! techniques can look unusual, thats fine, as long as they work!

[Kingston]

that last point i was talking about.........

gazza said that an axe kick would be a good way to end a fight without killing or knocking out the oponent because it can break the colar bone.

....first off you have to assume you can pull off an axe kick, second you have to assume that you make contact in the right place, third you have to assume that his colar bone will break, fourth you have to assume its only one oponent, fifth you have to assume that hes not tough enough to continue.

I could probaly go on.........do you now realize how stupid that coment was? when you ASSUME you make an ass(of)u(and)me.

if you happen to have crappy training and throw an axe kick thats fine......but it is NOT a good way to end a fight. Its like saying "jumpkicks are a good way to end a fight" or "groin shots are great to end a fight, no one wants to fight after getting hit in the groin!" also any type of stance that is not "natural" and relaxed only limits you....

i could go on and on about other things.....but i wont. You dont always have to agree with Ryan. There are many ways to skin a cat, but you have to take into account reality.

[ryanhall]

Well said, Kingston.