Agree with you 100% on this. One of the vital stuff is the ability to take a punch/kick.
Are you thinking of a wheel, teep, or axe kick motion? If so I agree with the lower target idea.
Are you thinking of a wheel, teep, or axe kick motion? If so I agree with the lower target idea.
I was referring to a front kick. In reality, if a front kick hits a target with a lot of resistance it is going to flatten out most often.
The heel will not do this since there is no ‘fulcrum’ effect from the ankle.
The knockouts I mentioned were front kicks using the heel (bottom) from very close in.
They never saw them coming
Good point.
Except that particular demonstration is as fraught with problems as most others. He gives them exactly one target, so he doesn't have to worry about anything else, and they have no tools for controlling his movement. Let me add in just a heel trip, and things might change. They might not, but that demonstration wont' answer that question and isn't any truer to actual combat than most grip releases are, taken out of the context of overall training.
I've yet to find someone strong enough to overcome a proper grip release. It's an entire body against the grip, when done right, and the gripper's structure (especially the structure of the arm/grip) is upset in the process. However, even if it should fail, when done right it limits the utility of that grip and sets up other openings.
Agreed. For me, kicks are my attempt to either close, or to keep them far enough away they can't strike, so they do the closing for me. I want inside.While I love kicking, I prefer being in close when I fight. What we used to call "fighting in the kitchen".
Oh, sure, I may kick to close distance when that particular scenario presents itself, or let him kick in order to try and stop me, but I've always done both, and that's what works for me.
A lot of my students do exactly as you've shown, because it works for them. And that's a good thing....for them. Me...I'll be waiting in the kitchen.
This.
I can chin kick with the ball of the foot (from a full "kicking" distance - not up close). I can't get anywhere near that with my heel - maybe to chest level. Just pulling the foot back takes up too much of my (limited) flexibility. Some of that, too, is because I haven't trained the heel kick much. I really only started working it recently, so maybe someday it'll actually get within 6" of my standard front kick.
Good in theory, will work if it catches the puncher by surprise. But it's easy to attack and close distance while covering by stepping in with a high step, being aware of defender's weight distribution, or by using some diversion before the attacking punch. A quick kick can work as a stop-hit, but it takes speed and near perfect timing. Not something most people can consistently pull off unless the attacker is careless or slow.
I didn't feel the video was even worth responding to. Why would anyone think you can teach effective head movement and positioning to a group of people who know little to nothing about self defense in a 2 hour or even 2 day class?
An old friend Jimmy Johnson who has passed away always comes to mind when the discussion of wrist grabs comes up. I would argue that no one could break his grip with a singular technique. To this day I have never seen arms/hands as strong as his. We used to have 'fun' using him as the uke in class and me making the point that it will sometimes take multiple counters/attacks to get job done. I often had to get down right dirty. Good times.
Exactly. So how are you going to effectively teach someone (who knows little to nothing) how to position/move their head in a couple of hours?
Okay, let's assume I couldn't break his grip. That makes one person, literally, I've ever found. I've tried with some pretty strong folks - much stronger than me. My point is that, done properly, the technique puts enough bodyweight against the grip that it will be rare that strength alone overcomes it.
