I saw a wing chun guy try that once. It actually made it even worse for him, as the shot arrested his foreward momentum and his kick left him unbalanced enough that he was slammed. He was RNC'd in less than a minute.Flash25 said:The guy just sucked. That was some of the worst Wing Chun I've ever seen. I don't even want to call it Wing Chun. First of all, the guy had no stance or footwork. Second, Beneteau just stood there with his chin out and his hands near his hips. Unless you've got Sugar Ray Leonard's hands you aren't going to keep yourself from getting hit by any competant striker. Cancio should have walked right up and attacked the guy. No squaring off, no sizing up the opponent, just hit him. Make him deal with your aggression. I don't know what lineage Cancio studies, but he obviously never learned to engage an opponent.
It was an older Battlecade promotion, and the slammer and choker was Igor Zinoviev.
T Corporal Hicks: If you wanto say someone trains "for self defense" you have to articulate what you mean, because the vast majority of "self defense" training is crap.
A dead pattern does not magically become functional if you start wearing camo and comically practicing "street awareness".
In other words you can fool yourself into thinking you are training something useful.
In other words: I will concede that an MMA match is not a STREETfight (and let's remember the inherent dorkiness of the word "streetfight"). If a non-MMA fight is 100% we will conclude that MMA contains between 50% and 75% of the elements contained in a streetfight. There is actual stress and fighting, punching, kicking, kneeing, elbowing and all kinds of grappling with few to no rules.
Now contrast that with TMA training. Solo form practice is 5%-15%
Olympic TKD sparring is 10%
Judo, boxing, wrestling are maybe 40%.
I've never seen RBSD/"street application" training rise above 25%.
In my opinion, "street" training is a dead end.