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Originally posted by Slavez3ro
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Sorry for your loss but in your thinking process u described , u have some good and some wrong ideas .
1.Comparing open hand styles to Guns.[no go]
2.Blaming Karate for the loss your family member or any other style.
3.What u see in the Gyms ,dojo's and so on will not be replicated on the street u might be in for a surprise.
4.Woman don't fight the same as men so if your girlfriend can use tactics against girls cool won't nessesarily work on men.
5.What makes your style so good.
Use of speed,use of power,use of your apponent,use of conditioned bodyparts,use of weapons.
So if these questions make u realise u have something that is not 100% then that is good because there is no one style that can defend against all.
Martial arts is like fitness - if u are a good runner u are not nessesary a good swimmer so u have to be contempt with the fact that if u fight someone with a weapon u might loose because u practice hand to hand.
1.Comparing open hand styles to Guns.[no go]
2.Blaming Karate for the loss your family member or any other style.
3.What u see in the Gyms ,dojo's and so on will not be replicated on the street u might be in for a surprise.
4.Woman don't fight the same as men so if your girlfriend can use tactics against girls cool won't nessesarily work on men.
5.What makes your style so good.
Use of speed,use of power,use of your apponent,use of conditioned bodyparts,use of weapons.
So if these questions make u realise u have something that is not 100% then that is good because there is no one style that can defend against all.
Martial arts is like fitness - if u are a good runner u are not nessesary a good swimmer so u have to be contempt with the fact that if u fight someone with a weapon u might loose because u practice hand to hand.
1) I'm not aware of any style that provides for a good counter-firearm system. I say that in one of my posts.
2) I didn't BLAME karate. I simply said that I don't trust it.
3) Yes, I know. This is one major point that I teach. I've been surprised before. Adapt, overcome, escape, survive.
4) My girlfriend has never fought a girl using my system, that I'm aware of. She's fought several guys in full-speed, no-pad sessions. Won all but one.
5) What makes my style so good?
First, I don't use this foolish idea of catching some guy's punch and using it to let out a three-strike combo or joint-lock on him. If you've ever exchanged punches with someone for real, you know that it's near-impossible for anyone but those with supernatural reflexes. It look great in the movies, for sure, and makes you feel good about your level of skill in the gym, but it does nothing for you on the street or in the field.
Secondly, the system was designed from square one to be used against a fully-resisting opponent. That's what I love about BJJ; it's ability to use full-force resistance to create leverage.
Thirdly, it's simple. I don't have my girlfriend throwing spinning heel-kicks (though she's good at them from her days in TKD), or four-step joint-locks. I have her working stance, breathing, staying on the move, staying on her toes, avoiding strikes rather than attempting to block them, learning when to make the attack and when to hold back, etc.
All I ask out of the people I teach is that they think for themselves. I try to get people to act on their reflex. Rather than throwing a mess of techniques at them and expecting to learn, I take what they consider to be second-nature, and hone it into a technique that would work. That sounds an awful lot like the BS you hear on the internet from people out to make a dollar, but bear in mind that I stand to gain no profit. My motive is to keep people from dying when they could live.
Moreover, I teach 'situation avoidance'. A lot of self-defense teachers say, "Let's say you're walking in an alley at night by yourself..."
To that I say, "Why the hell are you walking in an alley by yourself at night?" Common sense dictates that's not smart.
Women's self-defense these days is a joke. You cannot show them two or three good moves, and then say they're ready to beat down an assaulter twice their size and easily twice their weight. I've seen some ridiculous systems. One even has the defense actions matched down to a cadence. As if your enemy attacks in cadence. Right.
These self-defense gurus aren't experts in figthing. Neither am I, really. I know how to win without killing the guy, or I can win by killing the guy.
To those who claim to know 'prison-fighting secrets' or 'this thing I learned in my years in the SEALs', I say they're frauds.
Every prison fight usually results with somebody badly torn up, from an improvised weapon. A lot of times somebody dies. Somebody that wants to teach that to a civilian and call it self-defense is IRRESPONSIBLE. You're teaching somebody how to commit murder.
For somebody who teaches military hand-to-hand, there are systems that are applicable and systems that are not. For example, Army Combatives is based on BJJ. It's designed for a peacekeeping Army, which we've been turned into lately. It's designed to be lethal only if it needs to be.
But if you go and teach Navy SEAL H2H to someone, you're teaching them how to kill. Marine Close Combat's the same way. There are only two designed non-lethal techniques in the whole system. (NOTE: Marine CC was phased out in '99, replaced by Marine Corps Martial Arts).
People don't need to know how to stab their attacker with a shiv, or break his neck from in front or behind. They simply DON'T need to know. If a straight punch to the nose and a couple of jabs and maybe a wristlock win the fight, that's it.
No commando BS. No prison-fighting.
By the same token, no martial art system that has not been designed for use on the street, at least not the techniques that involve punch catching or complex motions.
Fin.
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