knights of yore hit the floor

[Chop Wisby]

http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/gladiatoria/big115.htm

check out plates 115 thru 121

there is more grappling elsewhere in the "gladiatoria" document, showing guys getting medieval.

Chop Wisby

[Chop Wisby]

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[Ronin]

Interesting.

[Chop Wisby]

re:interesting

agreed.

[Chop Wisby]

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top. so it doesn't get lost too quickly.


check out this site; grappling goes back quite a ways!

[Chop Wisby]

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[Ryu (non-working password]

knights...is there anything they can't do?

[Chop Wisby]

hmmm . . .

not much, it seems.

[Masala]

This thread proves that BJJ won't work against armed opponents.

[Ravenman]

This thread proves that muay thai won't work against armed opponents.

[Masala]

No it doesn't.

[Ravenman]

Next time you get attacked by a bjj guy in a suit of armour and a dagger after you've fallen off of your horse and your lance is broken, let me know how your muay thai skills carry you through.

[Ravenman]

In seriousness, Masala, if you were attacked by someone with a knife or maybe holding a gun at close range and you were forced to fight, wouldn't you try to grab the weapon and weapon arm to grapple it away and grapple to protect yourself from your opponent's free hand, rather than hit the guy? If you hit the guy, you're stabbed or shot right away. Bjj/wrestling/judo is the only way to go here.

The whole reason the samurai studied jiu-jitsu originally was in case they ended up on the battlefield without a weapon, so they would have some chance of grappling an opponent's weapon away and hopefully throw the opponent to the ground.

[Chop Wisby]

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see also:

http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/gladiatoria/big30.htm

http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/gladiatoria/big53.htm

also check out plates 59, & 61-63.

enjoy!
Chop Wisby

[Chop Wisby]

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also check:

http://www.hemasite.homepage.com/Back%20lever%20comparison.htm

enjoy!