Fighting techniques in contact sports
Good techniques cause you no discomfort. An example for strikes and kicks: Your technique is good if you can deliver knockout power without any discomfort on your part.
Causing yourself discomfort when practicing and performing a technique is a sure way to an injury — it may take a while, but you will injure yourself. Further, you must overcome the discomfort, which causes a split second delay that ruins your timing and often telegraphs your action.
Tactical considerations for good sports techniques: minimal exposure to counters, easy flow into your other good moves and, should you be outmaneuvered, easy ways out.
Fighting techniques outside of sports (self-defense, combat)
Here, just like in sports, good techniques don’t cause you any discomfort. In addition they must be easy for you — not putting high demands on your body. So, your techniques are not combat-worthy if you must be in peak shape or if you need a warm-up to do them well. Techniques that require you to warm up are for sports or for show, not for self-defense or combat.
Tactical considerations for combat techniques are like those listed for sports techniques but the consequences of selecting the wrong techniques are grave. So select techniques for simplicity and low demands on your fitness.
Now examine your techniques….
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Other examples of good combat techniques are shown in the video “Self-Defense Clinch: Grips, Throws, Knee Kicks, Bumps and Trips, Turns, and a Clinch at a Wall” below.
Self-Defense Clinch: Grips, Throws, Knee Kicks, Bumps and Trips, Turns, and a Clinch at a Wall
Good reasons why you should learn the clinch techniques are shown in Self-Defense Tip #118 — Clinch.
Self-defense tip from Thomas Kurz, co-author of Basic Instincts of Self-Defense and author of Science of Sports Training, Stretching Scientifically, and Flexibility Express.
Self-Defense Moves
To learn how your natural reactions can instantly defeat any unarmed attack, see the video Basic Instincts of Self-Defense.
Defend Against Weapons
To learn how the typical street weapons (club, knife, razor) are used by an experienced streetfighter and how to practice with them, see the video Self-Defense: Tools of attack — Club, Hatchet, Blackjack, Knife, Straight Razor.
Mental Toughness
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Naturalmente non bi sono lingue in simultanea? Come altri corsi?
How does your opinion in this tip square with high kick combinations of North Korean army’s hand-to-hand combat system you show at https://youtu.be/gdYCG1gsqzE?
It does not square very well because:
This North Korean h-2-h combat system is designed for conscript soldiers, that is for young cannon fodder. The system’s goals are to build morale and fitness of those soldiers and to give them a chance to harm an enemy should they run out of ammo in a human wave attack–not to give them a skill for life.
But while the original techniques of the system demand considerable fitness (as you know from my tip, a good combat system should not), they do not require much range of motion to be effective, so no need for warming up. Here is why: The original combinations are performed in combat boots, so the form of kicks, especially of the roundhouse kicks, is different that that in sports such as kickboxing, knock-down karate and taekwondo. With that “combat-boot” form only a middle range of motion is needed for effective kicks–even to an opponent’s head. For the clinic shown at https://youtu.be/gdYCG1gsqzE I adapted the combinations by doing high roundhouse kicks with the instep of the foot rather than with the ball or toe of the combat boot. The reason for doing that is given on the Clinic on Stretching and Kicking.