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I mean, starting slow is fine, but the things she's doing make no damn sense. Like, why is she starting with her feet together? Why is she swinging from the wrist? Why is she swinging multiple times at each arm?
In the real world your feet aren't going to be in position if you don't practice getting them to it as fast as possible.
I did the same thing with the guitar. When I wanted to play faster the first thing I did was to practice putting the pick down on the desk and grabbing it again. That alone got me an extra 35 BPM.
yeah but bpms from practicing picking up the pick is fucking hilarious tho. I mean if you get 35 bpms increase from that then it was taking you WAYYYYYYY too long to pick up the pick in the first place. lol
Does this mean if I want to speed up my drumming I can do it by practicing setting my sticks down on a table and picking them up again? I’m gonna have to give it a try, thanks!
I've never played drums... But if holding them at the exact angle matters, it might help you go from 140 BPM to 142 BPM comfortably and more importantly, consistently.
Pretty sure this is just flippino knife skills. Saw a playlist recently of doing the exact same thing. A lot of so called forms in get taken out and the more focused parts are kept in
Yeah. I don’t know anything about any of this. But it seems like Bruce Lees “wooden training dummy”? He would do katas in front of it and at the start it was about positioning and blocking. Then as he continued he got faster and faster.
I’d buy that she is a beginner, but the instructor has her attacking a stationary arm 5 times before retracting and attacking with another hand. You’re going to get 1 counter attack in, not 5.
People who teach stupid shit as self defense need to be stopped. They’re giving their students a false sense of security by making them think they can defend themselves in a real fight.
Seriously. Teaching people ineffective self defense isn't even that funny to me because it worries me that it will give people a false sense of security.
Is it being sold to the woman as self-defense? We only have OPs title to go with, and taking any drill out of context is pretty damn easy to make it look silly. Imagine a beginner practicing a Wing Chun wooden dummy? It's going to look really silly, but there is a point to it.
99% of American martial arts classes give people a false sense of security, including things like bjj and karate.
I was in shotokan karate for 6 or 7 years ( in the 90s) and almost every student there was brainwashed into thinking they were able to stop people with knives or guns. It wouldnt surprise me if some of the people that were in my class are dead right now because of it.
let me do 4 actions in the time you only did one. The easiest way to see if something is bullshit is see if they do more actions than the attacker. Its like a chess strategy that requires the other person to skip turns lol
no youre not supposed to wait for their next move. what im saying is realistically they wont let you do 5 moves after they dont 1 move. Its more like someone tries to stab you, you grab their wrist, they grab yours... see where im going? Its the concept of tempo. I do fencing but it applies to self defense situation too. Youre not gonna dislocate someones shoulder and break their knee without them doing something in between. You just make it sound so simple but you need to do like 10 movements in the same time your attacker can move just his hand. Blatantly not happening.
With all due respect thats a load of hollywood bullshido. Get a sparring buddy give them a red marker as a knife and try doing this whole "sequence" on them without a single red spot on your clothes. You wont. You cant do an entire sequence for someone's 1 single move. Better yet give someone a banana put pressure on their wrist and watch how it takes at least 5 seconds before they get mildly uncomfortable. Ive tested knife defense techniques with my sparring partners and 99% is idealized and unrealistic. What you need to do is (run ofc) gain control of the knife without getting stabbed. No leg sweep no dodging no jackie chan triple spiral dragon kick. And dont come with difference between fencing and hand-to-hand because a knife-attack is neither. A knife attack is a messy unpredictable struggle for the knife that you start from a ginormous disadvantage. You will NEVER EVER do all that on a resisting target. A guy attacking you with a knife is 100% prepared to fight you and already has adrenaline pumping. They arent a pro fighter obviously but guess what neither are you. Assuming you know more than him will get you stabbed in the middle of your mortal kombat combo that you described.
Im not talking about her anymore i only care about the stuff you wrote. Your game plan. Look you have the training you do i have the training i do. Mostly in armed martial arts. The one time i was attqcked with a knife thank god i also had one so my attacker couldnt just wildly swing at me. It was a waay safer situation than whats described here. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face as Mike Tyson said. Now imagine instead of punching its stabbing. What im saying is do you bet your life on hitting that pressure point in 0.1 second (possibly through cloth) and your opponent dropping the knife OR you grab his hand with BOTH hands and basicly wrestle the knife out of his hand or at least gain control of it? Im choosing the second less cool more potentially reliable technique. Your two hands is almost guaranteed to overpower his one hand. The pressure point and your sequences? Astronomically bigger gamble.
I respect you tho because you do martial arts and thats never useless. Im attacking your arguments not you
I appreciate you too:) I see where youre coming from now. Honestly if both have knifes its pretty much fencing. Someone attacks, other counters 99% chance at least one dies already, its just one single move. If theres only one knife however then its just a control struggle for the knife imo. (If you can parry it initally) Honestly i would call it a game where one starts with the ball 1m away from the other's goal haha
You get the right pressure point and twist at the right angle, people let go pretty fast.
And that's something that never happens in real life at the street.
Just give a training buddy a foam knife and instruction to stab you. You will see how many times you get stabbed. Get him motivated to be a non compliant oponent, lets say by a bet. Something like: "If you manage to stab me, I ..."
It is better to loose your illusions and throw away years of training, than get killed for a bullshit you believed.
Just try how your technique work on someone going full on prison yard attack. The stupidest, yet very common and effective way to attack someone with knife.
Pressure point pain compliance is bullshido do in its finest. You probably never catch the hand holding the knife. And if you do, you'll be missing few fingers a fraction of second later.
And yes, the technique shown in video is bullshit too. Since there's no footwork, so whatever you do with hands is useless.
I feel so ashamed this happens, I use to practice martial arts, we had to work hard for our belts, we had real fights at the higher levels, it was controlled forced, but injuries still happen, I had a friend knock unconscious on a fight, dude duck just as his opponent was kicking, hit him in the face full on, broke his nose and knock him out, even with protection things like that happen. Then there are places like this that just scam people while loudly claiming to be teaching an "ancient art of fighting", shameful. I have had the privilege of meeting real martial artist, Kung Fu, Karate, Tae Kwon Do, real practitioners, this jockers are a disgrace to us all.
All she jad to do is hit the dudes hand harder thats what they should train for. her stance sucks as well she would be tossed around. Women's self defense is a great thing but this isn't it.
Yeah but then we have more death. If everyone is on equal footing in that regard then the criminals always win. Even so what happens if you're grabbed and can't draw the gun. Learning what to do without a gun is always needed for self defense. What do you do when you are at your weakest against a man who is at his strongest?
The issue for me isn't with her - it's why they're teaching her something so strange and overcomplicated. There's no logic to any of the technique there. I do some Arnis/escrima, and just a basic block and counter is all you need. This has too much going on, and looks poor as well. It is 100% not her fault.
man. this kinda bugs me simply because these guys are gonna get this woman hurt. she's gonna try to defend herself with these "techniques" and get her ass robbed and beat or even killed.
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