"Will traditional Martial arts work in a street confrontation?"
Well, I thought - who better to ask than the LEGENDARY Kevin O'Hagan... Kevin O'Hagan is a 30-year veteran and a 6th Dan in Combat Jiu-Jistu. He is also a high-risk trainer...for the police, doormen and even businessmen in need of savvy street skills almost overnight. He gave this theory on traditional martial arts in real life situations... "Too many people including martial artists misunderstand the difference between sport/ dojo sparring and street fighting. They are completely different worlds... The karateka says "I can smash a dozen roof tiles with my reverse punch, so I could easily drop an attacker in the street." They are working on the misapprehension that an attacker will dance around and begin to exchange blows with them. Forget it! The plain fact is that there is very rarely - if ever - any sparring in the street. No street fighter wants to fight three, three minute rounds because he doesn't train for this. The street fighter is bound by no rules whatsoever. He will come at you in frenzy, using no ritualized punches. He'll spit, bite, butt and stomp and there won't be a referee to break it up, or rounds to save you. You'll face a fast, brutal few seconds of violence that will not only physically blow you away, but mentally shock you. You won't be attacked in a well lit dojo or ring with matted floors to land on. Instead it may be an icy pavement, a beer soaked floor in a disco, or a slippery lavatory floor. Not the ideal conditions for combat! There may be no room to use your repertoire of "killer" techniques and you may even have difficulty seeing the attacker in darkness or darkness or driving rain."
"Most of our self defence training is against a swinging punch to the head. As can be seen, it occupies the top two spots. The only difference is that the top spot is a reactive attack and the 2nd spot is a "pre-emptive" type of attack. In other words, in the first attack, you - as the defender - have pushed your attacker away, and he simply comes straight back at you with a swinging punch to the head. Now, as 85% of people are right handed, I would suggest you train for only a right hand attack. The defence is the same. You either go in with 100% commitment or you get OUT with 100% commitment. ANYTHING in between is likely to get you hit. As for, attacks 3, 4 & 5, Any type of clothing grab means trouble! For one, you have let your opponent get too close... Practice maintaining your distance. Then move onto the grab,. This is because you got it wrong and did not maintain distance. Then practice the grab from different scenarios, e.g. a surprise grab, or an argument then a grab etc. The defence against a grab is always the same - attack back hard and fast with 100% commitment. Completely ignore the grabbing arm/s. If you try to do anything with them you will be hit. Try it and see. Wear a headguard, have someone wear a boxing glove and grab you and try to K.O you. If you ignore the grabbing hand and just attack you will be OK, not KO! If you try to block you are doomed, from our training experience about 7 out of 10 times. In training, when trying to do something with the grabbing arm the defender loses 10 out of 10. By the defender ignoring the grabbing arm and the punching arm and just attacking, we have such a low figure of being hit that it is less then 2% of the time!
And that isn't bad odds.
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