Complex to manage (for the instructor/leader) but not that complex for the participant, unless you mean "complex" as in "having many variables". In the latter case, that's rather the point: having a chance to see how variables change decision outcomes.
I feel the video just showed that they likely Would. The guy in the blue helmet near the end of the video apparently didn't even see the second attacker and gave him his backside. Easy takedown/knockout/death.
I mean complex as in not simple.
"likely would" is really the best you can say, with predicting the out come of future and largely undefined events. like what happens in a attack.
We used this about once a month at the old dojo. It was good training for working to keep multiple people in sight, seeing how your position helped/hindered when an attack started, etc. It was often too "soft" for much realism, but worthwhile, nonetheless.
just to add, if there are say 8 potential attackers involved in the scenario, that's a 100, million possible variations, that it a) most definitely complex and b) would take an infinite amount of time to explore how altering each of the 100, million
You don't have to explore every possible variation to get to understand the basic variables involved. You can categorize. At what point does it seem impossible to use movement to keep them in front of you? How much harder is it with one person on one side, and all others (2+) on the other? What changes when they are close together vs. far apart?
but it's still going to be 10 million to one odd, that something otherhan the 10 variations you've considered will occur
that's true of literally anything in fight training. If you train some significant variations, you learn to adapt, so the variations you didn't specifically train for aren't as difficult to adapt to.
but he isnt training them in fighting, he is training them on running away, that's called running away training, but bizarly he isn't including any instruction on running techniques, so possibly best described as ambelling away
So for clairication since you are stating what I am/not teaching (assuming thats about my post and not oftheherd's, i kind of lost track). First, this was a couple years ago, i no longer teach at all, and dont train a sd specific style anymore.
So, don't do it if you don't understand it. Probably doesn't affect you, what he does.
MA training is not to train how to run away from your opponent but to train how to move around your opponent. As long as your opponent's hands cannot reach you, you don't need to run away.
its not their form, its their speed, though the two are undoubtedly linked. its impossible to improve your sprinting form without running flat out , though you can get considerable faster without improving your technique greatly. but i'm not sure that being able to run means your capable of correcting someones form
its very much about running , i'm not going to say that running doesn't count as self defence, it clearly does. but its a skill in itself, and clearly not one that a ma instructor is qualified to coach you in and he makes no mention of teaching then running, just he gets them to run. that's like telling them to punch something and makes no attempt to correct or instruct them
i do understand it, that's why i think its nonsense.
It reads as you are saying it is easier to get away from 7 people in an alley where your options for running (direction, etc....) are very limited versus a wide open field. That does not make much sense.
