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kenpo12
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Some arts train exactly the same way as they fight or compete and some arts like kenpo have many very crippling/maiming techniques that can only be used when the poo hits the fan.
Kenpo, as many people train and teach it (many other arts as well) talk about techniques in theory, and they are never fully worked due to possible injury, at least for those of us that haven't used these techniques in a real self defense scenerio. Most of the dissagreements I see about kenpo boil down to ego and lack of confidence about their own techniques, otherwise people would be confident and not have to argue about it. We work out wearing cups, don't usually make contact to the eyes, throat, or nose, we don't complete bone breaks or disclocations, and in many cases (depending on where you train) don't run techniques on a resisting opponent, so the only way to truly know if a technique works is in a real fight, which if the person attacking you does not react the way you expect, may cause you a great deal of problems. This is also why in mixed martial arts boxers and grapplers have always been so successfull because they fight exactly the same way they train, no adjustments need to be made.
I'm curious as to how others here train to make the transition from practice to real self defense as smooth as possible?
Kenpo, as many people train and teach it (many other arts as well) talk about techniques in theory, and they are never fully worked due to possible injury, at least for those of us that haven't used these techniques in a real self defense scenerio. Most of the dissagreements I see about kenpo boil down to ego and lack of confidence about their own techniques, otherwise people would be confident and not have to argue about it. We work out wearing cups, don't usually make contact to the eyes, throat, or nose, we don't complete bone breaks or disclocations, and in many cases (depending on where you train) don't run techniques on a resisting opponent, so the only way to truly know if a technique works is in a real fight, which if the person attacking you does not react the way you expect, may cause you a great deal of problems. This is also why in mixed martial arts boxers and grapplers have always been so successfull because they fight exactly the same way they train, no adjustments need to be made.
I'm curious as to how others here train to make the transition from practice to real self defense as smooth as possible?