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Oh, sorry! I didn't answer some!
Is what we see in those movies accurate?
I never saw Gangs of New York, and I don't believe that I saw far and away, so I cannot tell you one way or another. I have seen Irish streetfights and am privy to old fighting films so I am talking from a little experience (still not much).
Are there any advantages to this stance?
Yes. To the well-trained fighter you have reach, you can't really sway side to side very well, but that's where the hopping comes back in. The english are more planted, which gives them more sway, but on the tapes that I have seen, and on accounts from trainers and fighters, they still don't sway that much. I think that's why English fighters drop their hands lower, and/or move their arms in wider circles, depending on the fighter.
You also have a decptive left if used correctly, along with a enigmatic right.
For a reigonal thing so I would say yes. As a world-wide fighting style, no fighting style can say that with any certanity. Not gracie Ju-Jitsu, not Karate, not Testa, not Hisradut, none of them. Each situation is different and varies between environment and art. It would be foolish to use Gracie Ju-Jitsu in a firefight. Too many things going boom to care about just one person. Hisradut would be more fitting, since the art are includes techniques to lob back grenades. In Jail it would be foolish, because if you are being attacked, most often it would be in a confined space by more than one person, and often armed as well. 52 blocks style or jailhouse Boxing would be the most fitting. In a armed streetfight where you have weapons from heavy biker chains to guns, well honestly, I'd run like heck if I could! But if I couldn't, some sort of Navy S.E.A.L. techniques would be the best. Those suckers are hard to get at when there's a million things happening at once. If they can't control the confusion, they know how to work well within it.
Oh, well. That's just my two cents.
Is what we see in those movies accurate?
I never saw Gangs of New York, and I don't believe that I saw far and away, so I cannot tell you one way or another. I have seen Irish streetfights and am privy to old fighting films so I am talking from a little experience (still not much).
Are there any advantages to this stance?
Yes. To the well-trained fighter you have reach, you can't really sway side to side very well, but that's where the hopping comes back in. The english are more planted, which gives them more sway, but on the tapes that I have seen, and on accounts from trainers and fighters, they still don't sway that much. I think that's why English fighters drop their hands lower, and/or move their arms in wider circles, depending on the fighter.
You also have a decptive left if used correctly, along with a enigmatic right.
For a reigonal thing so I would say yes. As a world-wide fighting style, no fighting style can say that with any certanity. Not gracie Ju-Jitsu, not Karate, not Testa, not Hisradut, none of them. Each situation is different and varies between environment and art. It would be foolish to use Gracie Ju-Jitsu in a firefight. Too many things going boom to care about just one person. Hisradut would be more fitting, since the art are includes techniques to lob back grenades. In Jail it would be foolish, because if you are being attacked, most often it would be in a confined space by more than one person, and often armed as well. 52 blocks style or jailhouse Boxing would be the most fitting. In a armed streetfight where you have weapons from heavy biker chains to guns, well honestly, I'd run like heck if I could! But if I couldn't, some sort of Navy S.E.A.L. techniques would be the best. Those suckers are hard to get at when there's a million things happening at once. If they can't control the confusion, they know how to work well within it.
Oh, well. That's just my two cents.
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