A Guide To Fist Fighting

[Lvke 1000]

I'll need to add what happens when two skilled fighters come up against each other. You're average man isn't going to be very skilled. Even people who have been in many fights (even though a lot of people carry knives at my school/around it) will throw continual haymakers and just windmill. It takes specific training to be throw punches like that. I'll try and wrk on this guide later and add in the trained fighters. In general though, the main focus of the guide is that figs fighting is brutal, hard and very, vary dangerous.

[Minea 124]

Alright although Australian, i've recently completed my adult syllabus American Kenpo Black Belt after five years of twice a week trainings, now as this is the internet and anyone can easily make this stuff up I don't expect anyone to go "Woooooh", but from my perspective both sides of this argument are missing some key factors.

 

Rocket its unfair to say that 95% of fights are over in one or two hits, this is ridiculous, unless every single fight you have witnessed was performed by a very skilled martial artist fighting a very unskilled drunk. It comes purely down to technique, and skill. It is very easy to knock someone out with one or two punches if all three power principles are used, that being torque, back up mass and marriage of gravity.

 

If these three principles are used in one punch while worked from a solidified base then yes, you could easily one hit someone. But what we come back to is that very few average people if any back in the middle ages had the knowledge to implement these three power principles into their technique. So in saying that, it is ridiculous to assume that you will one hit someone in an RP fight. 

 

Now reading Miningtilldeath's post I can see that he has experience with western fighting? Namely kick boxing and normal boxing, and I agree with what you said, but I would like to add the absolute importance of ones fighting stance. You can't have just one fighting stance, there are sooo many different stances for different ranges in referance to body mechanics. For instance in my martial art the neutral bow is the stance used between punches and while gauging and opponent, the forward bow is used when harnessing the power of torque and back up mass in the scenario of swivelling ones hips and adjusting ones outside heel thus combining the full essence of counter and direct torque.

 

So to sum it all up, what it comes down to are two

simple things.

 

1.) Skill of both opponents, being able to correctly use all three major power principles with a solidified base.

2.) Target of attack, if one were to hit the forehead one would need to hit a lot harder than the less protected throat or temple. Simple body mechanics.

 

P.S I mean no harshness to your guide rocket, I simply spoke from my perspective, I dont know what fights you have wtinessed but one hitting unless committed by a martial artist verse a drunk, is very rare.

 

P.P.S I wrote my perspective from my experience in American Kenpo, as is obvious every single martial artist will have different views and opinions, and i'm not saying what I have said is the only right way to do things, i'm sharing what transpires in my experience with my techniques, every man to his own.

[Asgeir 27]

*adjusts his Tae Kwon Do 2nd Dan Black Belt so that it sit's more comfortably around his hips*

 

My expertise lies mostly in kicks, as I have spent 8 years of my life training in Tae Kwon Do. As Minea said ^ upstairs, you don't have to believe me. Frankly I don't care if you do or you don't. All I'm trying to do is transfer my experiences to a larger group of people.

 

My Fist-fighting rules:

 

1. Keep a defensive stance, distributing weight evenly between both of your legs. This way you will be able to nimbly hop out of the way of your opponents clumsy punches.

 

2. When you can, use a Side-kick for the center of the kneecaps, the groin and the solar plexus if your enemies is open. There is very little chance of your opponent being able to shake those attacks off. The Side-kick is effectively lifting your leg up while twisting around quarter-anti-clockwise and launching an explosive kick sideways, usually with the intent of knocking the wind out of your opponent or breaking ribs, and bones in important joints.

 

3. If your opponent kicks hard, get up close inside of the range of his kicks. Then go for the jaw and solar plexus. Make sure that you do this quickly however, since if you are too slow your opponent will push through and attack you instead.

 

(Next rules are not part of Tae-Kwon-Do, but are from my experience in some pretty ******* scary situations)

4. Don't be afraid to play dirty. When you feel that you are being overwhelmed try biting the hands, neck, ears and nose of your opponent. They wont like that very much :). Also try to use your surroundings to your advantage, like for example using a bamboo pole or any other makeshift weapons to hand. Don't be stupid though, since you probably won't be able to swing a sledgehammer around if you're a skinny 11 year old ****.

 

5. RUN FOR YOUR ******* LIFE. Fighting is never the first thing you do in any situation, otherwise you will get beaten up constantly. Always try to leave the situation in the most peaceful manner possible. (This goes for RP too :D)

 

Have fun!

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