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Originally Posted by LostMyMap  Agree that having a program for when you end up on the ground is a good thing.
Although if someone is dumb enough to charge me from the front with their arms out, I got things for that. We train full contact push kick against advancing opponents. If I have space, I would probably round kick a knee. If it's too close for that already, then it's knees and elbows.
I've become a big fan of muay thai style elbow strikes. Anyone, even girly girls with soft hands can do it, it works well when you are too close to punch and even when someone is grabbing you, and most guys, unless they've trained it, have no idea it's coming.
I guess one thing I haven't blabbed about in all this, is that in self-defense scenarios, the goal is NOT to have a prolonged fight. Well unless you really want to. (or your name is Tyler Durden) But the longer the engagement, the more likely you will get hurt, even if you win. You really want to stop the attack and get away, or at least to a better position. No heroics. |
Right but even world class Muay Thai fighters have fought in the early UFC, MANY times. Sure when opponents tried to stand with them they sometimes got chopped down, but it takes repeated kicks on the same spot.
Like I said people still fight with broken bones, you feel nothing, the adrenaline blocks all pain.
But anytime they faced a person trying to take them down they failed miserably.
World class kickers have tried to use front kicks and side kicks against grapplers. On paper they say "I'll just kick his knee out" but seriously, it never works.
I've seen every UFC from 1 to 118, every Pride and other leagues. over 1000 matches and in the beginning for several years it was strikers vs grapplers with everything in-between.
Cung Li who is one of the best fighters for strikes has incredible kicks. But he can't drop an opponent or rely on that one kick before a takedown. When someone is charging you and you lift your leg up, you MIGHT hurt them but not enough, and now your leg is up and the takedown is easy.
Someone taking an art for self defense isn't going to be that great of a striker anyway. For the first several years the kicks just wouldn't be that dangerous.
If someone wants you on your back it's going to happen.