Celtic bhoy is wrong. It's basic physics. If you apply enough force, something will give. I dont care how high, stoned or drunk someone is, a solid well placed kick will knick them over. A well aimed kick to the knee will still shatter it. A well placed punch will still crack the sternum. And if you cant walk or breath, you cant fight. It really is that simple.
So that's where I've been going wrong all these years!! If ***** hits the fan just take out the knee or sternum and if it don't work then they must be made of rubber!!........please!!
Do you have a 100% strike rate in cracking knee's and sternums then? As I'm pretty sure you don't, I shall say this.
It's statements like the quote above that gives students of martial arts false confidence.
Martial Arts don't make you superhuman, when you strip all the bushido, chi, ki (call it what you want) away, it's still man against man. It's still fear, rage aggression and mortal danger. Martial arts only give you options to choose what works for you. Styles are only different theories of what you can use in situation, none are the complete article.
Taking out the knee is not easy against a moving target and even if you hit it you may only succeed in disturbing the opponents balance. Their momentum may still mean that that they will close the distance and pull you down.
Kicks to the knee and punches to the sternum
may work against the average joe. But would these techniques work against someone who plays football of lifts weights for a hobby or is 240lbs of solid muscle and legs like tree trunks and likes the use of steriods?
Trust me, in that scenario you will be very unlikely to take out the knee or do a great deal of damage to any sternum, if your accurate enough to hit these targets. Your techniques will likely bounce off them!! The human body is highly resilient to impact, especially when conditioned.
I have seen many different stylists get into real situations and rarely have they kicked. The ones that have usually end ed up on the floor through various momentums.
By that, I mean either missing the target, the kick bouncing off the target or the opponent anticipating the kick and taking them down.
To dictate what techniques will make the job simple is presumptious of your own abilities prevailing and ignorant of what your opponent may be capable of, it's breeds false confidence that would put you at risk. Fights ebb and flow, you can't predict what tool will finish the job.
You may reduce your own options by being at close range if you feel kicking is your game. If you're not confident at that range, then train more at that range. If you feel your kicks are less powerful at that range then train them to be harder at that range.Your opponent is less likely to see what you are going to throw at them and with practice you can generate immense power from short range. It is easier to manipulate a vital spot into position ready for striking at short range.
When it comes to kicking in general, what I was trying to say was that for me strict fashion kicking with footswords etc are pointless with boots on. You might as well take advantage of the boots hardness.
I won't say what techniques are crap because a fight only lasts for seconds so you don't get to use them all. Everyone has to be their own salvation find what works for them.
But for me fancy kicks are kept for the dojang and for my examiners grading cards. But for real life I forget most of it and use what I feel comfortable with, which is close range shin and knee strikes to kyusho points.
It doesn't matter what the connecting tool is, just do what's comfortable and build the power from there. But keep logic in mind, one blow will rarely finish the job.
