It's an odd thing. Self defense guys will lead you to believe you're gonna get mugged or murdered at any time (and lucky it hasn't happened to you already) but that the guy who does it will be untrained. It's an odd combination of hyper-preparedness and disregard.
Yes! The setup is an implied part of the technique.
not if the kick is equally poorly exicuted they will both be equally rubbish. If my student is so poor that he can't hit the moving targets, then your will be better as at least he has had practise kicking something
I went through a phase where my instructor told new students I studied Armbardo.
well yea, there does seem a level of paranoia in some folk.
I'm not talking about broken limbs. I'm talking about hitting someone hard enough to end a bout. I just have no interest in that. I could probably (if my knees weren't crap) enjoy getting into BJJ competition. But getting into MMA - I'd just be the guy not fighting hard enough when facing an opponent with a strong striking game. I'm not interested in hitting him hard enough to win that, nor am I interested in taking the beating he'd give me in that bout.
Where have I ever said sport has no bearing on self-defense? This post seems to have no connection to the one you quoted.
That's basically 20 hours on a single, basic technique. I'd compare it to 20 hours spent on a basic single-leg and some simple set-up variations, and maybe some distancing drills. The gun has the advantage, of course, that resistance doesn't matter so much if it's pointed the right way when it goes off, so it's less prone to resistance failure than a single-leg. However, that 20 hours still won't make the gun terribly useful if the bad guy grabs the shooter's hand before he clears the holster. He'll need something besides that 20 hours of training, most likely, for that situation.
Remember that your student has all the training mine has. You added the moving target. As long as you train him as well as I train mine, yours will be superior (unless we both suck as teachers, then we both need to quit and go wait tables).
or another way of looking at it, one of the black belts I spar with has beautifully exicuted kicks. They are high they are accurate, they are power full. Unfortunately for him, they don't hit me as I have moved, he just isn't fast enough. And worse than that every time he does one I sweep his standing leg, so he falls over. He gets quite cross about it. You cant coach him faster, he is limited by what god gave him
Fair enough. It's incongruent, though, because in every other way, the training is over engineered with knives, guns, gangs, needles, grenades, tactical nukes and MMA thugs.
Fair enough. It's incongruent, though, because in every other way, the training is over engineered with knives, guns, gangs, needles, grenades, tactical nukes and MMA thugs.
yea, people selling self defence are selling a) paranoia and b) easy answers . It matters not if the thug is trained , if he is stronger faster with better cardio you have probably lost. To pretend otherwise is fraud by those who run these courses, most of the people doing self defence would actually be more capable of defending themself if they did step aerobics' . Theyshould be told to go away and come back when they have a reasonable level of fitness, but no money in that.Fair enough. It's incongruent, though, because in every other way, the training is over engineered with knives, guns, gangs, needles, grenades, tactical nukes and MMA thugs.
