Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Mixed Martial Arts
I drive two cars, my car and my wife's car. Actually my wife drives a foreign made SUV and I drive an American classic. I frequently find myself accidentally turning on the windshield wipers instead of the headlights or just reaching for some control in the wrong place. Actually I am right about where I am reaching and what I am doing, I am just sometimes in the wrong car to have my reflex make what I want to happen actually take place. Under pressure I am very likely to reach for the wrong knob when trying to doing whatever it is I am trying to do.
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... in an emergency maneuvre, you don't focus on the dashboard. you focus on the steering, feel the gas/brakes [maybe clutch if you're so disposed] and the windows around you. You usually look where you want to go, not what you're afraid of hitting. With common benchmarks like that, this should weed out a variety of martial arts.
Fine motor skills with a liberal dosage of Ki or Chi or "Universal Oneness" ain't gonna cut it. Arts that focus on swords, spears, "num-chucks" and a variety of exotic and dubious weaponry are also out. Ditto for sports oriented MA - you are right on with that one.
This leaves only a few hard choice: manner and extent of training, physical conditioning, mental preparedness, and gross motor skill movements. Throw in a few common sense tactics to avoid problems before they arise and once arisen can protect your ass in a litigeous society like the US and you have the basics of an MMA you can work from.
Reality based fighting systems with a strong physical conditioning component seems right to me. Having seen the video in question [Combatants - highly recommend it] and trained with Moni - I think you're quite right with Kipp as an instructor for children. Moni focuses more on adults and can handle the wild west environment of the Gaza Strip. He'll also get you in kick ass top shape too.
However systems like the knife fighting system as demonstrated in the Combatants video is too hard core and illegal for our US and Canadian society - so stay away from those.
EBMAS JKD for fair fighting in the schoolyard? I liked their avoidance attitude best of all, not necessarily their fighting techniques.
For whatever it's worth, my .02 cents CDN.
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Fine motor skills with a liberal dosage of Ki or Chi or "Universal Oneness" ain't gonna cut it. Arts that focus on swords, spears, "num-chucks" and a variety of exotic and dubious weaponry are also out. Ditto for sports oriented MA - you are right on with that one.
This leaves only a few hard choice: manner and extent of training, physical conditioning, mental preparedness, and gross motor skill movements. Throw in a few common sense tactics to avoid problems before they arise and once arisen can protect your ass in a litigeous society like the US and you have the basics of an MMA you can work from.
Reality based fighting systems with a strong physical conditioning component seems right to me. Having seen the video in question [Combatants - highly recommend it] and trained with Moni - I think you're quite right with Kipp as an instructor for children. Moni focuses more on adults and can handle the wild west environment of the Gaza Strip. He'll also get you in kick ass top shape too.
However systems like the knife fighting system as demonstrated in the Combatants video is too hard core and illegal for our US and Canadian society - so stay away from those.
EBMAS JKD for fair fighting in the schoolyard? I liked their avoidance attitude best of all, not necessarily their fighting techniques.
For whatever it's worth, my .02 cents CDN.
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