Likewise, scratching will have minimal effect on an attacker—but it will leave identifying marks on him and collect DNA residue under your fingernails, both of which can help in the aftermath of a crime. Hair pulling probably won't stop an assault, but the hair can serve as a handle to control a thug while you unleash punches, kicks and knee thrusts. Fish-hooking is of limited usefulness, he says, because of the risk of having your finger bitten. One unconventional technique Skillen finds effective in street fights is the throat grab.
He says it works well offensively and defensively, as a stand-up restraining hold, as a prelude to a knockout shot, and as a handle for smashing the skull into a door or wall. To apply it, grab your opponent's windpipe with a C-grip four fingers on one side and thumb on the other using your dominant hand. Simultaneously control the back of his head or arm with your other hand. Complete the technique by digging your fingers and thumb around the windpipe while pressing upward.
A number of widely practiced techniques are too iffy for the average person to rely on in a street fight, John Skillen says.
They include sport-grappling techniques of any kind, throws, jumping kicks and any technique that requires you to turn your back to your opponent. Because those moves put you in a vulnerable position. In accord with his keep-it-simple philosophy, fakes, feints and drawing techniques should be avoided because they're impractical in combat. They're just too complicated to pull off when you're under the effects of adrenaline, he says.
Faking is best accomplished using deceptive dialogue and body language during the pre-fight phase of a confrontation. Closing sound bite: To maximize your ability to defend yourself, start with an attitude of "I'm willing to do anything and everything to protect myself and my loved ones. After that, Skillen says, it's just a matter of practicing until they become second nature.
To order his book Fight Night! When standing, he prefers boxing-style punches and the power slap because they're far more surgical and effective. The primary functionality of the hammerfist, he insists, is when you need a transition to fight back to your feet or when you need to use ground and pound to end a fight on the floor. Twenty years later, the Flying Dragon Villa has become more feared. Meanwhile, the swordsman's daughter, Yen Cheng Pei Pei sets out to find the brothers, end Lung's reign and make Flying Dragon Villa an honorable place again.
After uniting the five brothers, she teaches them the Five Tigers with One Heart kung fu skill to give them a fighting chance against Lung. Seeing this technique will help you understand why the Chinese are known for those amazing balancing and people-pyramid acts. During the s until retirement, Pei Pei was touted as the first queen of kung fu films and prior to a serious accident in Golden Swallow was known for doing her own stunts and fights.
Yet after the injury, a male double was used if the director wouldn't allow her to do it herself. When Pei Pei fights Tien's stunt double, who's armed with a guan dao massive blade on top of a long pole , they rock the screen with lengthy weapon exchanges captured within the same shot.
To me, this is Pei Pei's best fight ever. She's relentless, smooth, and graceful, which is a difficult to do when fighting someone with a larger and heavier weapon.
Chia enters the genre like a bat out of hell on a freakazoid chopper high on Meatloaf. In what must be the most men killed by any female star in a kung fu film, the final fight is as mesmerizing as it is relentless. For nine-and-a-half minutes, Chia is surrounded by knife-wielding warriors and hatchet men trying to feed-frenzy her into oblivion. Ultimately, it is the lady who axes the questions and when they try to lie and cheat her, she becomes the cheetah and makes them lie on the ground.
Avenger uses s fight choreography while shooting the action with tight angles that create a strained sense of pugilistic claustrophobia that makes us feel Su-zhen and Chia are both fighting for their lives. With a wee background in Chinese opera combat choreography and this being Chia's debut kung fu film, it was fitting to not disrupt Chia's expectations of what the fight might look and feel like.
During the use of s choreography where hooligans would form tight circles around the hero and the non-attackers would excessively move to add motion and commotion to the fight, Chia was instructed to throw non-stop kicks and punches in all directions while spinning around like a female Olympic skater except to do it with knives and hatchets in hand.
Everybody gets nailed by a sharp hatchet hammer or a pointed screwdriver knife…Su-zhen's tools of the trade. The Mandarin title Ching Wu Men means entering the gate of knowledge of the Ching Wu martial arts school, which was created by Shanghai martial arts legend Huo Yuen-jia. Set during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in , after the Japanese deliver a plaque with the words Sick Men of Asia written in searing black ink and Huo's top student Chen Chen Lee endures ridicule from the Japanese delegation, we're minutes away from a very important moment in fight choreography history; Lee kicking eight different bullies in one unedited shot in a Japanese karate dojo then introducing the world to a nunchaku.
Adding to the scene's steam, a reflection of Lee's disdain toward how the Japanese treated the Chinese during that era, he adds insult to injury by having some Japanese fighters wearing their hakama backwards and at the end of the nunchaku sequence, Lee defiantly poses in front of Gichin Funakoshi's father of Japanese karate portrait.
Yet Lee's ultimate powerful pervasive message of Chinese not being sick people is brilliantly depicted when Lee defeats Japanese thugs in front of Shanghai Park by splintering a wooden sign that read, "No Dogs or Chinese Allowed" with a flying kick it's a sign that never existed. Black Tavern is the best whip movie in the history of whip-moviedom. My mouth was so agape watching this film that I swallowed a thousand flies. Whip master Zhang Ku Feng is like a flamethrower full of rocket fuel.
It's on the list not for the story, but for the fight scenes that are cooler than liquid nitrogen freezing the Terminator, which includes the whacked out, Viking-helmeted, villain Hu terrorizing the Inn like an enraged bull in a ring filled of blind matadors who forgot their capes and swords. The story opens when after a drunk monk performs shu xiao ban 11 th century Chinese rap music to an inn full of vagabond, thieves, and a cryptic swordswoman that a treasure chest is heading to Black Tavern, all the rascals leave the inn with brains wrapped in greed.
At the tavern, all hell breaks loose as the menagerie of Chekhovian pseudo-heroes, back-stabbing villains, zombie men, ghosts, leopard-skin lackeys, switched women and Hu partake in increasingly lethal and inventive death scenes. Ku's choreography goes far beyond simple whip twirling circles and figure eight motions that inject a whip crack or two.
He's Quisp and Quake, and the continued use of cool sight gags stupefy our brains like how his whip uniquely beheads a woman, and when Hu attacks Ku with a pole, what follows is an outlandish kooky fight sequence featuring a wicked reverse-angle point-of-view shot of Hu holding onto his weapon for dear life while he's being lifted skyward, travels in an overhead semi-circle, lands on his back, while his face grimaces into camera the whole time, then ends up being whipped into a coffin and dragged across the ground toward several swords.
The night fight in a snowstorm between the swords-woman and Zhang is a combo whip-in-a-whip-in-a-whip crescendo with a headless horse and carriage as a wayward rolling wheel tries to crush them. The Japanese dojo challenges the Chinese guan to a competition to draw Liang out of hiding. He complies and the dojo pays a dear price for their misplaced loss of face.
Choreographer Lin You-chuan was known for creating relentless, fast-paced fights that didn't rely on perfect technique, posture, or real kung fu fighting. My hat goes off to Wen. In earlier films, he put his body on maniacal overdrive and just kicked and scrapped his way all over the screen, not caring about what other kung fu stars thought of him. When he takes on multiple attackers in this film, each shot is pure mayhem. He's as intense as he's fun to watch, regardless of the choreography's haphazard nature and the somewhat sloppy kung fu.
The key to Lin's choreography was having Wen throw his leg in the direction of an attacker and the stuntman would react to his leg placement.
As a result, Wen's not kicking at anyone, he's rapidly lifting his leg in many directions. It's flail-on-flail choreography with animalistic luster. Wen mimicking Lee's nunchaku dojo sequence with a piece of rope is so blatant that you've got to admire his audacity.
Wen's rope has the same sound effect, Wen copies Lee's nunchaku movements and the fight is shot using the same camera angles. Wen kicks the karate dojo sign like the Shanghai Park sign and a brief Bruce Li moment is a sign of things to come. The film follows the path of jujutsu expert Uyeshiba Jiro Chiba losing fights to karate expert Natori Shinbei Sonny Chiba; Jiro's brother and to the bokken -wielding sword master Okita. Uyeshiba thus learns karate from Soubei Honda.
Armed with newfound skills, Uyeshiba revenge fight plans go awry causing Shinbei' brother to commit suicide setting up a superbly orchestrated fight between two real brothers, Chiba vs. Chiba, with a hard-style karate vs. Though the fights are intensely riveting, it's the displays of true karate morality that is most memorable. When Honda presents Uyeshiba with a teacher's certificate and Uyeshiba declines it because he can't afford it, Honda replies, "I don't take money when I give lessons to a man I trust.
Though I can sell my skills, I can't sell my marital heart. Jiro Chiba's portrayal of Uyeshiba's martial transformation is transcendently dynamic as to how he adjusts his martial movements from one teacher and fight scene to the next. His techniques subtly change and improve over the film's duration, which shows how Uyeshiba's aikido evolves from Japanese jujutsu to aikido's basic hand guard, fight-ready position that is modeled after the way a samurai holds his samurai sword during battle.
On the surface, the movie appears to be a run of the mill, topsy turvy, grittily and cheaply made early '70s Taiwanese kung fu flick; yet it balled me over.
Imagine Led Zepplin meets Def Leppard ala Deep Purple wrapped into one group and their sole song's music is translated into the sensibility of the final fight scene. When Zhen Zheng Jiang Bin returns home, he's called a traitor, ostracized by his village and his girlfriend forsook him as his brother, a turncoat that mines red sand from a river for the Japanese, who use it to forge steel to make guns to kill Chinese.
Though the early fights resemble out-of-control windmills, they're raw and you watch them to the point of mental fracking. They're filled with unabashed desperation and overblown fantastical facial expressions associated with silent-film stars.
It's like female fans of Rod Stewart saying he's so ugly that he's cute, Jiang's fights are so sloppy that they're great. Just when you think Jiang can't get any worse the attack ante rises as Yasuaki Kurata skulks onto the screen as the nefarious nemesis from Nippon, who oozes the animalistic intensity that Sonny Chiba brought to his Street Fighter films, yet Kurata's hapkido kicks elevate the film's frays and makes Jiang look like a 20 th degree black belt in everything.
Midway through the finale, Zhen taps into his Buddha Prayer Fist, a cheesy and effective turning point in the fight as they begin battling on a fast-moving freight train with the frenzied intensity of Lee Marvin vs.
Ernest Borgnine in Hitchcock's savage barreling train skirmish in Emperor of the North The emotional sacrifice of breathless intent behind the assault asphyxiates every moment of the fight for them and us. This was a rare accomplishment in Chinese kung fu films that also featured the bewitching soundtrack of Black Magic Woman by Santana.
Overall, the fights in The Gallant are intense and well-choreographed, and Wang portrays each character and their fighting skills with dexterous prowess and violent acumen. In The Stranger , a trapped woman flees from an abusive Triad into the arms of a man Wang that's part James Bond and knight in shining armor.
He doesn't use a gun or sword instead he's armed with flaming fists and combustible kicks, and fights with tiger intensity soaked in an avalanche of bowling balls that uses up to 25 technique per shot to destroy the kingpin. The somber Stranger Attending the Tomb features Wang as a heavy-hearted prodigal son who while guarding his father's grave laments on his own sinful past, while his sister believes her brother is the last bastion of goodness in the world. When she's threatened by a gang of grave-robbing rebels that want to loot the father's grave, with snapping dragon fists, and a pitchfork and shovel, Wang goes more berserk than Billy Jack at an OK Corral spree that is filled with wretched revenge and insane disdain.
In The Avenger , a man Wang returns home from prison after taking the rap for a treasure heist to protect two accomplices, his father-in-law, and the double-crossing Li San. While the man was away, San killed the father-in-law and heinously coveted the man's wife. With two daggers in hand, it's time to unleash a whirlwind of steel-slashing bewitchment upon San and his clan.
Never say, "Cut it out," to a former inmate with blades. However, when Ben and father use arnis to thrash two cowardly sons of the Philippines' first colonial governor Legazpi, and stop them from raping his mum, Legazpi retaliates by killing Ben's father, raping then killing his mum, and shipping Ben to Los Mananos to be executed. Therefore, you will need guidance along the way. While one student may grasp a technique after practicing it 50 times, another may need to perform it times.
Acceptance of this will teach patience, focus, and will make success that much sweeter. They develop their mind, body, and spirit. While mastering Martial Arts is a lifelong endeavour, there are certain Martial Arts that will help students implement the self-defence techniques quicker.
For example, in Kickboxing, students will quickly learn how to block and counter a punch from a bully at school. But remember, you cannot speed up the process of self-awareness, confidence, focus, and discipline. Practicing Martial Arts is no quick fix to our health and wellbeing goals. Results often take time, and success comes from lifelong habit changes. Focus on getting stronger, faster, more aware, and you will find the results start to pay off with time.
Bruce Lee did not become the Master Martial Artist he was, by simply focusing only on punching and kicking. While many parents sign their children up to Martial Arts to develop their confidence, discipline, focus, and so on, many adults look to learn a Martial Art for a variety of physical benefits.
Whether it is self-defence, fitness, or strength building, it is very clear that adults primarily seek out Martial Arts for the physical benefits. You will need to outsmart your opponent through self-awareness, awareness of your surroundings, and knowing how to read them. These are all characteristics of mental training. This same awareness translates to reality. Find a Martial Arts School that suits your needs.
All schools will have varying levels of mental development within their programmes. If there is an element of discomfort or fear of feeling uncomfortable, overcoming this is the first step to becoming a true Martial Artist.
It can be argued that Martial Artists have big egos, and there are plenty of examples to back this up. Think of team sports such as Football or Rugby, where if you succeed the team does too, and vice versa. This is not necessarily the case in Martial Arts, particularly when fighting in competitions, and even friendly sparring rounds. Martial Arts are primarily a solo journey, where you focus on developing yourself inside and out. However supportive your team, friends or family are, when you are face to face with an opponent, you are alone.
You can only rely on yourself and your training at that point. The problem here is, it can lead to egotism. Because, if you start an ego fuelled fight and lose, you may suffer mentally far longer than it takes for your wounds to heal.
Hence, Martial Arts are what you make of it. With the hundreds of Martial Arts being taught, it is no surprise that there are endless amounts of rule sets, even for the same Martial Art. This lack of certainty increases further as each school is able to decide their grading criteria too.
As a result, most schools simply focus on the physical techniques as a sole marker of progression, as this is a much simpler assessment for both the school and for you, the student. A lack of regulation has resulted in many inexperienced instructors opening their own Dojos for the wrong reasons. Unfortunately, this leads to a lot of impractical Martial Arts see Problem 3 to find out more being taught to vulnerable and confused students.
At FitRoots, we realised that we would be doing our students a disservice, if we did not teach the mental components of Martial Arts as part of their Grading. We want to ensure every student develops on their Martial Arts journey in the whole sense.
All instructors also participate as students in Grading and in classes. Maybe you will decide that based on these problems, Martial Arts is not the right fit for you, or maybe you have found your solution. Either way, if you would like us to deep dive into any other problems you have encountered, or have any questions about any of these 7 Problems With Martial Arts leave us a reply, and we will be sure to get back to you with a solution.
If you would like to learn from the team here at FitRoots, contact us today by visiting our Contact page here, or click the button below, and we will contact you within 24 hours, to discuss exactly what you need, and if we are a good fit for you. Your email address will not be published. When a technique is isolated in training, practitioners must be able to do the technique with full speed and power , and the defense must still work.
Otherwise, the training is creating bad habits. Unfortunately, this is standard operating procedure at most martial arts schools. Largely due to poor training, most martial arts are filled with sub-optimal to horribly dangerous techniques.
See this page for requirements for effective self defense techniques. These include karate and kung fu style punches and blocks that leave practitioners wide open to counter strikes Because most traditional martial art training is not realistic, the practitioners never realize the techniques they're learning aren't realistic either; until they actually need them.
Even with good training and techniques, strategy is essential. Most martial art schools do not promote or consider various strategies for self defense. When is it time to attack? When is it time to run? What type of defense is most appropriate for a small woman vs. Because the majority of martial art training follows a strict, stylized curriculum, there is no room for strategic or technical differences in size, strength, gender, and disposition.
These days, an attacker is likely to have a weapon. The vast majority of martial art schools do not train realistic defense against modern weapons, if they train with them at all. And even fewer train practitioners to use modern weapons. Those that do, especially in the Filipino martial arts, tend to be the worst regarding realistic training and ineffective techniques. Quality weapons training must be a part of every self defense system.
Martial Arts Cults And Beyond In addition to poor techniques, training methods, and strategies, many martial arts go far beyond in regards to guru cults and pure madness.
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