Video on Karate blocks

[FriedRice]

Style/art bashing.

Not only is it not allowed on here, you are wrong.

Wrong about which?

 

[Deleted member 39746]

Just a generic question, isnt dodging encouraged more than blocking, its just blocking is harder to get right so you spend more time training it incase you need it? Most people tend to dodge rather than block from what i have seen.

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

Just a generic question, isnt dodging encouraged more than blocking, its just blocking is harder to get right so you spend more time training it incase you need it? Most people tend to dodge rather than block from what i have seen.

If you dodge the 1st punch, you may need to dodge the 2nd punch. How many punches do you intend to dodge?

If you block and use your hard block to hurt your opponent's arm, your opponent can't punch you any more.

If you block and wrap your opponent's punching arm, you have turned a striking game into a wrestling game.

block + arm wrap > block > dodge

 

[Anarax]

Just a generic question, isnt dodging encouraged more than blocking, its just blocking is harder to get right so you spend more time training it incase you need it? Most people tend to dodge rather than block from what i have seen.

Dodging and blocking are useful tools for any Martial Artist. The attack, range, opponent and situation will usually influence what you want to use.

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

Just a generic question, isnt dodging encouraged more than blocking, its just blocking is harder to get right so you spend more time training it incase you need it? Most people tend to dodge rather than block from what i have seen.

To add to what was already said, if you're looking for specific blocks, you may not see them. You may see something, and it may not look like a block, but that's actually what the person is doing.

 

[now disabled]

To add to what was already said, if you're looking for specific blocks, you may not see them. You may see something, and it may not look like a block, but that's actually what the person is doing.

I would add to that , what you see in vids that is done in the dojo under controlled conditions may look as you say very different in a real situation and as you say not so recognizable.

@Rat deflections can be termed as blocks in some circles and thoughts not just a pure halting of a motion that the term block may imply