Seems with your negative outlook at contact, I, as well as others, are wondering whether or not you've actually been hit by anyone with any skill. Furthermore, as I've said numerous times, it seems that you're assuming contact means injury. Not the case at all. Contact is a necessary part of the martial arts.
As far as the one shot thing goes....so going on what you're saying here, you're saying that a pro mma fighter, who doesnt KO his opponent with 1 shot, isn't any good? And pushups have nothing to do with making the 1 shot any more effective.
Perhaps it is ego which makes me say I stop my hand rather than strike, but perhaps there is also reason for it. I can take a shot I assure, but there are also shots I cannot take, and physics is the master of that. I am a small person, and prefer to avoid strikes rather than receive them. But I also understand that a time will come when a strike will land, because there are times where circumstances occur beyond one's control occur.
At times I think, when joining the military, if ever involved in a war, for all my training, if ordered to charge a trench, there's so much one can do to survive, and one is fortune. And I'm not someone who necessarily believe in luck.
Careful...you're ego is getting the better of you here. One minute you're claiming you dont say stuff like that, and then we have posts like this! So, what are you saying here? That you're so good that you don't get hit?
I wish I never got hit. There are many times I have. But there are also times I have, when sparring offered openings to be taken, so I could re-act pre-emptively to strike, There have also been times I have given techniques to be blocked, so I could gauge the other, if they are someone I feel the need to gauge their ability. You would be surprised at how often, when training with college students, this occurs. Hormones make people feel the need to prove themself, even when it is not necessary.
Gee, thats funny, because I've seen many mma guys, take a shot, as they're going in for the clinch/takedown. Its happened to Royce Gracie many times.
If an experienced MMA fighter has taken a shot to the larynx, or fully received a knee to the sternum, I do not believe it was deliberate. When I create an opening, I opt to achieve the illusion for an opening of a vital. When in a neutral stance for bagua, moving my warding arm 6 inches to the left creates the appearance of an opening, while at the same time giving me the distance I need to produce proper torque to redirect even a kick, let alone a strike to the arm. I am not saying it is always successful, just offering a strategy I find works.
Have you ever fought anyone with more skill than you?
Of course. I am fortune that I live in NOVA, for there are MANY skilled practioners here, which I would expect where so many styles are located within a relatively small area.
Sparring with those better than you feels a bit like being in a cage with a tiger, before you finally feel the tiger swing. It is exhilerating, but it is also an experience to relish. When you give everything you have, and are not only met, but find your better, you cannot help but not bow out of ritual, but true respect. This is another to learn from, who can offer you improvement. To not ask, even a passing thought for how one can improve oneself, would be to disrespect them in the fact they are better.
I am nervous before I trade with anyone I perceive to be better than me, but it never keeps me from actually doing so. I do not mind getting clocked in the face, if they truly surpassed a guard I felt could not be blocked. I bow even deeper if I get a blow in, for when you do improve with someone better than you, it is because of them you are better. And all the more reason to bow.
Have you given any thought to spending some quality time, ie: many years, actually learning an art, rather than jumping from one thing to the next?
Yes, until I realized that so long as I did not blur in my mind where one style ended, and another began, it would not inhibit the techniques themselves. I respect when I do a high block, that there is a certain movement to one's arm, that will render the high block respective toward being of say Ishiin-Ryu, Shotokan, or TKD. And even in TKD, there are 9 different ways to perform the block supposedly, when there's really only 3 different positionings. Repsecting the uniqueness of each style is imperative to improving in that style, otherwise you are forging something different, using inspirations of it, so I have found.
When I practice Moo Duk Kwan, I attempt to remain cognizant when and where I do, and where the situations occur practically occur. When I practice Ba gua, I am cognizant that when practicing Aikido, that though the movements are similar, even if I utilize aspects, they are different, and respective. I treat a style as a form of thought, just as I treat philosophy. How a Christian views the world is not the same as a Buddhists, and neither are necessarily right or wrong. But if I want to learn to think like them, I actually have to learn how they think, rather than what I think they do. And this is a difficult thing to do, but what I hope to succeed in not only in helping others bridge their differences, but martial arts as well.
This is your statement. I asked you where judo was used and what stance in judo is used to avoid sweeps, again from your own words. I did not ask you to point out a throw, because I could probably recognize one of those. This is were you attempted to explain that stepping to centerline qualifies as kouchi-gari. Again, no judo in this video, fairly obvious.
If Judo has taught me to be aware of the subtleties of how one shifts their weight, I will attempt to give credit where do. The credits give less credit to techniques employed (since this is a doctored video in the sense it does not convey ALL that we know and can do, merely what is presented) and moreso to our background. I did not want to post a video where people would watch and gestulate at what they saw. I gave a guide to the range of what can be seen. You asked for specifics, and I attempted to answer, no more. I did not tell you how to execute the technique, only that having learned it, allowed insight to counter a person attempting certain movements.
If the only thing you learned from boxing was how to punch with speed, you'd better give credit to where you learned the speed employed, even when using it in a different style such as tae kwon do, or bagua.
It's not about saying BAM! here's a sidekick, but about honoring who taught you, and more importantly, what was taught. I could give a list of my teachers, or Alec's, or I can give the style we learned, and how our own uniqueness of individuals has interpreted it.
Which would YOU prefer, the perfectly executed block in a kata or form, or the block which actually saves your life. The latter is usually found to be sloppy, even if it's effective. You'd be amazed at how often in krav maga there is a lack of technique which is easily overcome by level of agression, and intent in one's action.
You are right that at times a step is a step, and a throw a throw. But sometimes a step is made because of having learned a throw. sometimes opening present which cannot be exploited by a full technique, and might be from a variation of it.
Mastery I have been told is knowing when to use one's technique, and when to change it for the circumstance.
I will ask again, what does the thigh have to do with kouchi-gari?
Would you like my response, or would you like to just give your refutation? I do not mind either way, but I am sure any practioner can see that thigh use is not something common to grappling styles. From how I learned kouchi-gari, the proper sweep is executed not only with just the sweep, but if possible to reinforce it, with the knee, and even thigh to better control the center of gravity. Who we learned from was a great advocate of aikido, and impressed great importance in taking care of your attacker, in keeping them from harm.
Had I fallen, and like everytime Alec has swept, thrown, or grabbed me, it has been in a manner where I could fall correctly, or where he kept me from completely falling.
Hence why the video does not show throws; there were two times where he could have put me on the ground, but also kept me from falling, with such control it looks like a stumble. Why would I post what I do not think others will see, and construe as just being bad technique, when in fact he withheld the technique, knowing he could have?
Had he thrown me, our sparring would have escalated to grappling, which you'll notice there is not footage of.
You ask how the thigh is relevant? It is absolutely when executing kouchi gari, because while harder to do, because it requires exposing oneself more, when done properly it also allows one to protect the person it is being executed on upon better. The point emphasized is control; not just for winning, but for keeping oneself and the other from harm, if you so chose.
Just like how one should kick to the groin, but if one wants to not hurt their training partner, they raise their knee first, before kicking (unless executing a specifically stylized swinging kick).
In that case, may I request a combination technique? Maybe an entrance to Uchi mata, a failed throw(an actual effort at the throw)
In a video like this, with respect to the art of throwing, when it comes to applying one's training, is in how one can redirect the opponents strikes to manipulate an opening which will allow one to deflect the strike. What you ask is how would someone in judo would fight TKD, or Ba gua. The answer will very from technique to technique.
I have combed through this video so many times this weekend to supply requests for people asking for examples, I hope you will excuse that for one day I take a break. That being said, later in the week I will be happy to submit footage, if I can find any from the stock available, for what you ask. Otherwise I would recommend youtube if you would like to learn them.
Unless you are asking me to prove myself, in which case I would say you should tone down your own skepticism. If you're going to be critical don't do a half-shod job of exploring the issue. But at that point I'm saying you should come join us in practice if you really would like an answer. In the end, when viewing another, it is not correct to make a value judgement of ability, or insight, until you have worked with them. I recall witnessing in Aikido a master who with the turn and lowering of a wrist totally control the opponent. Should you look at the movement, it would be almost sloppy, in the sense of chin na grabs, yet it is incredibly effective.
I have answered with what I can. If you ever utilize your experience in throwing or pulling, pushing or turning to striking in combat (instead of its traditional grabs or throws), you will see how there are aspects of every style which can improve other styles, and remain respectful toward it, and not obfuscate the lines which differentiate those styles.
For me, it has been important to do so, especially when making the transition from having practiced hapkido, to practicing judo. Or from practicing Moo Duk Kwan, to Chung Do Kwan. To ignore their differences, ignores the opportunity to choose how to react. And even how to create.
