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- Posted: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:48:26 +0000
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I would love to converse with you, but if you are going to insist on typing with your special colored font, I cant continue because, in order to respond to you, I need to keep pressing the back button to check against your statements. This will be the last response I will be doing this with if you are going to insist on keeping your font effects.
1.) Of course second impact syndrome is an issue. Techniques to guard the face? Hands up at temple height, elbows in, chin tucked, punch with shoulder to chin. Get comfortable with punches being thrown at the face period. Get comfortable with parrying. Learn how to absorb impacts. Head movement. Not much else you can really do.
2.) Obviously there are vulnerable parts on the head to strike. Temple, back of the jaw, part of the lip just under the nose, the eyes, lower part of the skull.
Yeah, strikes can cause alot of damage, but, speaking from experience in facing both individual and multiple persons in the ring and on the street, the likelihood of getting the perfect kinds of hits to do that kind of serious organ/death damage is just not as likely as people might think, even with years of training. You just react- sometimes it works great, and sometimes it just lets your opponent or attacker know that you mean business and that, if this confrontation keeps going, they wont come out of it smelling like roses.
So, talking about the possibility of damage from certain strikes is nice and good to be aware of, but its kind of pointless to me to worry about that in the ring (because you are not trying to kill someone) or the street (because your main concern should be making the situation safe for you, not necessarily causing kidney damage). The recent "Karate Kid" movie put it the best; "Just hit him. Dont let him hit you back.".
1.) Of course second impact syndrome is an issue. Techniques to guard the face? Hands up at temple height, elbows in, chin tucked, punch with shoulder to chin. Get comfortable with punches being thrown at the face period. Get comfortable with parrying. Learn how to absorb impacts. Head movement. Not much else you can really do.
2.) Obviously there are vulnerable parts on the head to strike. Temple, back of the jaw, part of the lip just under the nose, the eyes, lower part of the skull.
Yeah, strikes can cause alot of damage, but, speaking from experience in facing both individual and multiple persons in the ring and on the street, the likelihood of getting the perfect kinds of hits to do that kind of serious organ/death damage is just not as likely as people might think, even with years of training. You just react- sometimes it works great, and sometimes it just lets your opponent or attacker know that you mean business and that, if this confrontation keeps going, they wont come out of it smelling like roses.
So, talking about the possibility of damage from certain strikes is nice and good to be aware of, but its kind of pointless to me to worry about that in the ring (because you are not trying to kill someone) or the street (because your main concern should be making the situation safe for you, not necessarily causing kidney damage). The recent "Karate Kid" movie put it the best; "Just hit him. Dont let him hit you back.".
Ok, because you're being very kind about this and making a reasonable request, I'll drop all my editing. I'll keep that in mind if we ever discuss anything in the future too.
I have found that your statement that "there's not much else you can do" is very true. Aside from the times I was knocked out without knowing I was even in a fight, there's been plenty of times where I tried utilizing the techniques taught to me from various instructors and found that a lot of it came down to chance. Which is one reason why a street fight I tend to be very uncomfortable with and stray from as best I can. I generally will let someone threaten me and even push me around until I retaliate. Even being hit isn't the worse part to me... It's the mannerism of everything as a total. Which I wish there was a simple formula for discernment instead of having to trust your judgement of the unknown.
The vulnerabilities of the human body is what intrigued me enough to start studying and training in various martial arts. Though I still don't think the sparring situation fully teaches the importance of reaction and clarity of thought, I did like how training in Krav Maga was principled in starter positions of being caught off guard. I used to complain with my partners that I didn't understand it's necessity at first but then I started to notice a difference in my ability to not think about what to do yet be able to perform with a fluidity that was like my ability to type without looking or thinking of the spelling of words. Of course, the practice helped when more techniques were introduced.. Since it's a natural ability for the brain to remember these things, I just thought it was strange that I carried that same principle into most of my training of anything else. Especially as I became more aware of certain spots of the body that I need to protect more than others.
I myself don't think much of killing a person in a fight. My aim is to incapacitate and even use force that's lethal if things escalate... But like a gun, I never brandish it unless I'm prepared to go all the way.
Though my main goal is just to get to a safety point and then get away. I'm not some heavy-weight throwing anything around so I never have learned to rely on intimidation. Most of my reliance is in surprise elements such as what burst speed can provide in strength or what agility can provide in articulation.
I never was trained formally in boxing but I have always noticed that despite what region you are talking about.. Boxing cultures emphasize on getting used to being hit. I was always told that I should spar with the idea of contact in mind, and not pulling punches unless I'm demonstrating a move to a submissive target.
I don't know how it equates to boxing but a common practice is developing hard-body combatives. Such as that from creating micro fractures in bone to harden or callouses over skin for the same reason. What's your experience of this?