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Kicking is almost useless in the streets 1 its obvious when you make a kick attempt and 2 the timing of kicks is way too long and 3 it takes three times as much stamina to perform. This is reality were talking about not kung fu magic land
None of those people in the vid even know how to fight, kicking youâre vulnerable to holds, knee strikes, sweeps, pushes, a fountain of punches all while your trying to get your breath stabilized. Please donât show these civilian vids anymore they donât know wtf theyâre doing.
Edit: Shit wait let me clarify, low line kicking is very good only slightly risky. But above the waist is almost suicide
Youâre right, but thatâs the point. Most do not know what to do once it goes down and even the most idiotic moves MAY work. If theyâre up against someone who IS experienced, or just know how to read body language and try that⌠itâll be a bad, bad day.
Also, yes, kicking the shit out of the legs of the foe is very effective, and Iâd say it is quite beautiful as it is pretty damn safe. The safer the better.
Did it in school back in the day to stop a guy from physically bullying a gay guy. He stopped.
Iâm also going to agree with the high kicks. It is too risky, unless you can lock down the opponent or getting the opponent off-balance that is. Iâd stick to low kicks though.
Agree. These guys talking about spinning kicks and shit donât know what it means to actually fight, which in itself is quite the risk. No color of belt can save you if you are careless in a fight.
Example:
Both of these idiots commit to shit moves. Lucky it is a friendly fightâŚ
I donât live in the US so I canât speak for that.
Self-defense should not be a crystalization of any âstyleâ. Ip Chun himself speaks of it here:
youâre not going to like this but why are you giving noob descriptions of how to set up a kick when the ONLY benefit of a high kick in a real fight is itâs range you can do ABC (attack by combination) with a high kick near the end if itâs sport, in a real fight thereâs a very high likeliness of it getting stuffed, destroyed or grabbed. spin kick is a HUGE no no in a street fight, itâs suicide if you can clearly see your opponent can fight (unless youâre talking about feinting a hook for a round house) but even then someone who knows what theyâre doing in a high risk fight would probably destruct any wide angle attacks you try to throw at them. body language is the highest form of combat and if you both have decided to damage each other seriously there are dozens of tail tale signs good fighters are aware of
and I donât mind getting a suplex youâll just have to stand up proud with no eyes
I agree with you on the grappling vs striking, but not on the uselessness of high kicks. Look at this:
Randy is one of the best fighters and still couldnât do anything about that kick. The fight was also over on the spot. Why couldnât this work in a street fight ? There are a bunch of other examples from k-1 - just watch Andy Hug, Peter Aerts in his prime or Glaube Feitosa - how can you say high kicks are useless ?
in mma/ufc youâre fighting according to a rule set, no threat of potential knife, no clothes to grab, no rough shoes to worry about, no concrete, no solid walls, no random objects; so it becomes a game of shapes (limbs and body position). one of the main aims of high level sport fighting is to make your opponent manage potentialities in given situations. if you look carefully couture was over stimulated and was preparing for a curved strike guarding his face while staying on machidaâs right side. machida stimulated coutures high guard by keeping his hands high and feinted a left kick for couture to step uncomfortably to his left to brace for the impact of the feinted left roundhouse kick; this left a gap in coutureâs horizontally prepared guard enough to squeeze in a front kick, which machida reached with by hopping slightly forward. this is a sport type of game, it can work but the risk is retardedly high, you need to psychologically cultivate your opponent to decrease the risk factor of it and thatâs something that is completely in the nature of sport fighting.
almost anything can work in a street fight, itâs not about what can and canât work itâs about what has the highest vs lowest risk factor