Kirves

Too little hip rotation. If you are facing the opponent with your left fist forward, you must concentrate on a sharp, very strong hip rotation while the rear foot turns too, onto the ball of the foot and knee pointing forward and down. Do this rotation strongly enough and your right fist flies to the target (in front of you) almost by itself.

Basically, I agree with you. But here I'm better off (legally) with a guy with a broken arm than a guy I choked out, when the police arrives. That's why I explicitly pointed out that anything done to the throat/neck area of the opponent is discouraged. No rules. He is a street thug. A narcotics user. A thief, robber or rapist. A mugger. Someone I have a reason to stop and cuff until the police arrive. Yet I have to go as far as possible along the rules the middle-aged Armani-suit bearing out-of-touch-with-reality guys in the ivory tower have written as "the law" in here. To make this more clear, these rules can be broken if I can prove it was necessary. This is easy if the guy wields a weapon, or if there's more than one guy. But the most common situation in my job is to apprehend one single guy, who usually is unarmed, and usually drunk or on drugs. Problem is I work in an environment, where there are dozens or hundreds of witnesses at any one time. Also, it is a very high probability that what happens ends up on security video tape. So I must go by the rules as far as possible. Of course many arts help, but now I'm looking for "the optimal" one, and that's where I need "second opinions". Aikido is theoretically good, but 1. takes too long to become a high percentage reliable tool, and 2. I don't trust it's common training methods to adequately prepare me for many common habitual street attacks.

Okay, the basic question: which art suits best? Requirements: - doesn't take 10 years to learn enough for it to do any good in a situation - must be realistic enough for professional use - helps you get the job done when the rules (the law) are these: - allows taking control of opponent without doing much damage to him - no hitting is recommended, absolutely no hitting in weak targets such as face, throat, neck, groin, etc. - any attacks to the throat (including chokes, strangulations, etc.) are discouraged - it is a plus if it helps you put the guy flat on his stomach so you can cuff him Notice that these "rules" apply basically in a one-on-one unarmed situation. Striking, choking and other rules can be bent a bit easier if the situation is extremely dangerous such as there are multiple opponents or weapons involved. Basically the job is to subdue the target person, without damaging him, without braking too many of the rules above, and then holding him up until the police or other help (collegues) arrive. Please elaborate on "why" and tell if you work in any security -related field and/or have used the stuff in real life or if you are just making educated guesses or stating your opinion.

Actually, I even wrote a piece on this some time ago and submitted it as an article to the forum. You'll probably see the article in a few months in the articles section.

I haven't stumbled into that kind of kick, but a close one being the old school Okinawan side kick, where you do almost the same, except you kick in a clockwise arch and hit with the top of the foot (+ maybe ankle too). This is the traditional yokogeri, side kick. Although, the clockwise term may be a bit overboard, it goes almost straight to the target after you bring your foot next to the other foots ankle, so it's not a "crescent" kick as one might imagine from my initial description.

No I don't anymore. The school I went to for Kyokushin, detached itself from any Kyokushin organizations and founded it's "own" style. I got out of the whole mess. Anyway, I only recently went to that school to try Kyokushin out, and now that it didn't "work out right", it's no big deal to me. I've been doing several arts for the past almost 15 years.

Yes, that's why I said "the author of that article was..." instead of referring to you.

The author of that article was quite narrow minded about JKD. Actually it seems to me he was talking about Jun Fan Kungfu, yet thought he was talking about JKD...

If person A has enough forward directed aggression going on, he will push B again before the punch of B lands, then he gets doubly p*ss*d off at B for trying to punch him and he charges at B, making them both fall onto the ground and then they wrestle like two kindergarten-kids.

"Right" according to which specific style of martial art? True, few untrained people punch, kick or wrestle "correctly", yet they often manage to do lots of pain and damage when they want to.

The teacher hits the student with a stick when the student is doing sanchin kata. Nothing special to Kyokushin, all styles that have sanchin kata do that. Although, I wonder why would that happen to beginners... Maybe they were right about not continuing in that school after all... About "videos" of Oyama, he fought dozens of bulls (or more correctly: ox not bull) and there are several video clips. The one I've seen on the net has him wrestle with the animal, until the animal falls.

Best defence against multiple attackers: Run Forrest, run!

Ashihara was founded by a known Kyokushinkai master Ashihara who decided to drop the old-fashioned kata, because he never got any bunkai information about them. Smart move, why keep stuff you can't use. Then he figured out his own kata, which are done with partners and resemble modern sparring and self-defence.

They work just fine. JKD calls it's variation of chain punch "The Straight Blast". And according to Paul Vunak, "When ever Bruce was serious about a fight, he'd revert back to the straight blast."

One common HAPV is to take the victim's head into a "headlock" or "necklock".

Of the nine koryu in the Bujinkan, three have ninjutsu in them, so yes, there was ninjutsu before Bujinkan. If you want information on ninjutsu history, please check this out: http://www.ninpo.org/ It has a good history page, and also has translations of old and authentic ninja texts, like Ninpiden and Banshenshukai.

I said, the ryuha that form the foundation of Bujinkan are koryu.

Feel there's nothing more on the net? http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczcole/interests/lastpage.shtml

They are quite correct, Bujinkan is not koryu, it is a style founded two or three decades ago. But Bujinkan is based on koryu bujutsu.

I think it is just evidence of it being closer to karate's Chinese origins than some other styles.

Dunno much about the enlightenment part, but if you are interested in the sporty clash of swords, and would like to learn the basics of old Japanese swordsmanship, then sure have a go at it!

Well, I consider Daito-ryu one of the old schools in any case, didn't even think it needed any special attention.

Hi, sorry for taking so long to reply, haven't been here for a while. I really don't know that much about Naha-te technically, but I do know that Okinawan's preferred closed fist, while the Chinese preferred open palms. In Naha-te kata's this was often changed by the Okinawans, which also means that some aspects of the kata had to be changed to accommodate the change so that the techniques are still optimal. Hope this helps.

Chain punching is a term used in Wing Chun kungfu, and some other styles, for their "rapid fire piston punching" where you step (or run) forward and do short range punches in front of your chest, punching all the way to the opponent, but not retracting your hands back all the way to the chin guard, or hip chamber. That is the way they punch anyway.

Yes, Bujinkan Taijutsu is just a composition of Japanese jujutsu styles. If for some reason, you are not able to train at a Bujinkan dojo, but would like to train in a style that would "go well with" Bujinkan later on when you have the chance, old Japanese "koryu" jujutsu is what you need. Koryu means style founded in the "old times", usually meaning prior to the mid 18 hundreds.