Again, if you're not guarding your body, a good striker will attack it in ways that cause you to guard it predictably (more predictably than if you start out intending to guard it).
Actually, striking is mostly against the rules in Judo (I don't recall if they still allow some of the slaps that I was taught, or even if those were ever allowed). By the wording you used, I read it as one person could only strike to the head, which would be a different thing entirely.I assume that is just common sense without saying. You can go to a Judo tournament and knock your opponent down. You just don't win that Judo match.
Striking is against the rules in Judo Competition but Atemi Waza, striking techniques are in Judo. Unfortunately for Judo many Judo schools only teach the techniques legal for competition so today there is a large segment of Judoka who don't know the atemi waza techniques.
Assume we are on the same level. You (general YOU) want to punch my head. I want to lock your head. When you right punch at my body. Since your head is open at that moment, I can move in for a head lock.
The only thing you'll prove is if someone is good at striking the head and if someone is good at getting someone into a clinch. This will vary from person to to person. Sometimes punches and kicks can be used to set up clinches. Just not sure you are going to get anything that would be considered as "anti-striking" from this.
The same can be said about kicking legs, most people don't have conditioned legs so if your legs are stronger than your opponents then you can win the fight by taking away your opponents mobility. Damage your opponent's legs and he'll spend less time trying to punch you.
I don't understand this. Specifically for me. I will attack where you are weak. If your legs are weak I will attack there, If your movement and footwork are weak, then I'll make you move more than you want to. If you aren't good with guarding your head then I will attack you there. If you are strong over all then I will pick a spot to hack away at until you are weak there.
Agree that there are too many variables to consider in fighting. This is why I try to make my case as simple as possible - head punch vs. clinch.
ahhhh.. this sounds better than what was going on in my mind. Technically a "boxer" isn't going to have a full house of striking skill, so it takes a lot of those variable out. This makes sense to me now. I have yet to meet a boxer that kicked. One of the kung fu instructors where I used to train was an ex amateur boxer and the Sifu was always telling him to kick. I have videos of me sparring with him and off the top of my head, I think he only tried to kick me 5 or 6 times. Boxing was his comfort zone and it was hard for me to venture outside of that. I'll have to go back and see how many times he actually kick. I also have some footage of the same guy sparring with people who were only doing take downs. I'll have to see if he was ever able to punch them in the face.
Thanks for filling that in, Danny.
And that strategy is when it gets interesting.
How will you know what is weak at the beginning of a fight, unless it is an area they have an obvious weakness?
By using kick/punch to enter, a foot sweep is my favor. I don't care whether I can sweep my opponent down or not. As long as I can sweep his leading leg to be off the ground, when he is standing on one leg, I don't have to worry about his kick (unless my foot sweep can cause him an outside crescent kick to my head in return). If I can use his leading arm to jam his back arm, I'll have a free hand to punch on his head.
The best way i can describe it, is how they move. Footwork is everything how one stands gives hint to what they are good at. Grapplers have a different stance than kickers. Punchers have a different stance and movement than both of those. How well they move within these stances gives hints to what they can pull off. The guy that changes stances at will and movement at will means caution in a wide range of things. The guy that moves effortlessly is super dangerous.in multiple areas. He'll bait you and mislead you with his movement which in my opinion is worse than baiting with fake openings. People who move that well force the eyes to always play catch up in tracking the movements.
