Ten Second Tactics

[Fungus]

High percentage, low risk.

The question is how, is this possible? In a zero-sum game, where one persons win, is another persons loss. Your pain is my gain.

Quite often, risks scales with gain, and can lower fatal risks by buffering the small blows, for the benefit of long term gain. I think the same game theory is the same in competitive economo'y as in fighting?

I think that in economy your economic buffer and time horizon determines the short term risks you can mange and avoid fatal outcome.

In combat i think that would correspoNd to stamina or endurance, how much short terms risks you can "afford" to take, in order to have a chance of victory and still avoid risking fatal outcome.

I think the optimal strategy is the middle path, maximize gain for the maxium risks you can afford to take?

In cooperative games, it is different.

 

[HighKick]

Some insights (at least for me) wont happen until contact level gets high enough to be painful and you learn the hard way what costs you more.

So far the most painful and long lingering stuff is getting shin kicks blocks by knees. It usually takes months to recover, so during that time i just kick more with the other leg or focus on striking. Also hitting your wrist into an elbow has a long heal time. This has tought me that precision is not just about hitting the opponent in the right place, but about not hitting the wrong places for your own sake. So I think I improved, I think I needed to hit some elbows to really make it get into my head. It also taught me that even if one arm or limb is in pain, you can do pretty well with the remaining tools.

Slowing kickers down by using the elbow is a tactic still used in modern WT and other styles of competition. It definitely works but is a penalty is 'caught' doing it intentionally.
The shins can definitely be toughened up (or de-synthesized) to take more and repeated impact. Mine are as knotty as a pine tree from this.

 

[Fungus]

Slowing kickers down by using the elbow is a tactic still used in modern WT and other styles of competition. It definitely works but is a penalty is 'caught' doing it intentionally.

In kyokushin it's fully allowed. I do it even in normal sparring, but in weekly sparring most usually wear shinpads. But I if you kick hard and hit a knee or a elbow, it gets through the guard like butter. So you can only imagine the effectiveness of those blocks without pads.

So the "safest" low kicks I are to the calves or below the knee, then you will avoid the knee. Optionally I try to get a downward trajectory rather than upward as then you are less likely to hit the elbow head-2-head collision.

Blocking with knees rather than shin-2-thin is a really powerful defense for legkicks as well. People usually stop kicking the legs after having kicked once into your knee. We do this in sparring as well, what I learn from it is that kicking can hurt yourself more than the opponent.

i favour blocking with elvows and knees as much as possible, blocking kicks with your hands is risky I did that too and my pinky finger got bend, never noticed until months later. after it stopped hurting.

The shins can definitely be toughened up (or de-synthesized) to take more and repeated impact. Mine are as knotty as a pine tree from this.

Mine are a bit bulgy as well, i wasnt sure first if it is due to kicking(never had any reason to inspect my shins before), but I suspect it is as i feel the bulges right where i know i kicked into something. but ot sure if its the bone or soft tissue that is bulgy. But ive only done it for some years.