Do karate schools in the US not teach dirty fighting any more or do you have to move to Japan?

[elder999]

.... you don't fool me a bit with that routine....

"falling to one knee under the weight of his attacker".... nah....

Hope the local constabulary judoka doesn't see the video and scry a perfect single-knee-drop seoinage....

Then again, judoka being judoka... he'd

probably just grin and say something like, "old dude got lucky, falling like that huh."

This actually happened to me in Denver-I've told the story here more than once, I think-caught a kid trying to steal my motorcycle at around 4 AM (on my way to work) and he came at me with the screwdriver he was using-it went just like that, except that by the time the cops arrived, he'd woken up and was begging me to let him go-those laughing cops? Called him an ambulance.....

 

[JP3]

It's a smart guy who doesn't ignore that the silent 3rd guy in any fight is Mr. G.

G = 9.2m(s*s) since I cant superscript a 2.

 

[Ademadis]

Before uni broke up for Summer my Sensei dedicated the last three or four sessions specifically to ground work. (Mounts, holds, escapes etc.) and normally when we have a newcomer to the Dojo we all practice basic self-defence techniques that rely more on 'dirty tactics' as they're the ones most likely to be used.

I think it's more down to the individual style and requirement of the club, if it's more competition based you're going to learn something a lot more traditional that something like my club, which has a high turnover of lots of different Karate styles.

Also bump for Twendkata71's post, I've recently studied Chinte which includes eye/nose gouging. I think that's more what you're after

(Hi btw ;P)