JerryLove

I would imagine that they are exposed to both... certainly, it's not hard to find major Systema and Sambo guys interacting. That siad, I agree with cymry... considering one systema tape was pulled for having a good deal of Spetsnaz on it in the process of training it (who did not really want their faces on tape), and considering their tendancy to train it with the millitary...

I absolutely agree. That said, very often the act of drawing a sidearm or long-gun has a strong tendancy to end the violent intent of th other party.

Mind if I ask what your basis for this belief is? Well, except for that pesky "couldn't tell good from evil" problem. At any rate, and interesting post; but one which seems very arbitrarily created.

That would be consistant with Bagua at my school. If you are pushing him when he launches you, it's a matter of grounding your force and then standing up. It's pretty easy to learn against someone doing "normal" pushing

BTW, their counter to that is to shift directions of force and stop trying to overpower the arm. Then you get a joint hyperextension, though not always the elbow. Depending on your skill at maintining it, they could also just hit you and then immediately go for the arm break.

My instructor has several remote students, and obviously I like the art: https://www.clearsilat.com

It's not a step-by-step thing... it's about learning touch-sensitivity, trapping and bridging (and avoiding being trapped and bridged). Stand square off with your partner. Touch each other's writsts. Start slowly and lightly. He shoud be trying to touch you in a way that with speed and power should be a strike. You should be trying to prevent him from doing so while at the same time trying to do it to him. There are many tricks and strategies to it (attempting to trap, traing to keep spring-arm, deceptive pressure, etc), but it's not a matter of "right " or "wrong" so much as one of effecacy.

With only 6 matches, how many is "some"? If we go look at UFC and other limited rules matches, boxing is a good base art but, by itself, is flawed. I'm not familiar with Kyokushin guys, but it's not surpriseing that the TKD people lost... particularly if they felt throwing high-kicks was a good idea.

It doesn't need to be that complex. Just jab a hand out and shove their fist into their face. Remember the ingraned defensive habits: touching your glove to your head is a good defence against a punch... touching your fist to your head is not-so-good.

So is boxing

Firearms did obsolete older battlefield weapons (say, the crossbow); which obsoleted weapons before them (longbow), etc, etc.

I would tend to disagree. Certainly the Ryou we think of as Karate todat can trace their Island history to a time when Okinawa was under Japanese occupation. Armies and weapons were outlawed. That's why traditional karate weapons are farm implaments instead of "real weapons". Karate sword forms are pretty unherad of.

Well, I can't answer the question as well as address the support. From the Christian standpoint, everythin comes from God. Satan came from him and is in his hands; but you would not consider drawing power from Satan appropriate. Similarly, spiritualism and witchcraft are expicitly condemned Biblically. I'd say there is no clear support for or against your position; but there is clearly a flaw with the logic.

I was under the impresseion that "Karate" was a generic Okinawan term for unarmed fighting, and that Japanese fighting philosophy was "Budo"

You said: "it is not a stance for fighting" I asked: "You sure no one uses it as a starting position" I'm not sure how you interprete a question as an argument. Now you've said: " i can't say for sure that people don't use it. " So I guess the answer to my question is "no". I asked a question; in point of fact, it is you that became argumentative.

I've never learned drunken, but I've seen it. The instructor in question applies a drunken "template" to other information. I suppose my first impression is that it is similar to a really good Systema guy doing Bagua... of course those are two arts only slightly better known than drunken boxing

There is no context. He asked how many there were and than named one. You then said: "crane stance in chinese martial arts means standing on one leg."; making your context "all one-legged stances". I know a 1-legged Chinese crane-stance, and the basics of how to use it, and I could see it being used as a "guard" poisition (and if my old KF movies are to be believed, some people may). I won't use it, but there are a lot of stances people fight from that I won't use. http://www.kungfu.co.il/gallery/kungfupic/crane.jpg The closesit I could find without putting forth effort or something hideous like that. Remember that his opponent should be off in the direction his head is facing.

Those are points along the same meridian (that one extends up to yor jaw). If he did it right it shouldn't have hurt, it should have made you dizzy and disoriented. I have no clue if I can pull that off in a fight, but with a willing partner, it's a nead demo of a pressure-point knockout.

So the senior student of the guy Otata learned all his ki stuff from, exposed to everything Oyata was, said that there was no ki? Seems that anyone with the eergy skills you infer would easily be able to prove the exitance of ki.

You sure no one uses it as a starting position (the one sideways to your opponent with your closer leg raised and that foot above your other knee, near hand straight down, far hand stright up)?

There are a couple ways to use the hands/arms to deal with a knee under those circumstances (though if your hands are below your ducked head, I wonder what's protecting the back of your neck and skull). You could shove into the hip-socket or bladder-area. I like this becuase it's disruptive to more than just the knee. You could redirect the knee (I don't think I'm up for describing this process). Hrm, that's about all I can think of from that position.

Only in that "relaxed" is one of the traits of good Taiji (unless you know a way to root while tense)... so would seem to hit the principles in question.

And I'm sure he was his instructors only pupil huh?

I agree with several that have posted. Avoid his strengths, exploit his weaknesses. For the generic boxer strengths include: - a killer upper-body punching game - defense against same weakneses include: - an exposed lower body (kick him in the leg a few times) - no skills outside punching range - no grappling skills except perhaps punching from a clinch - few, if any, skills with or against trapping The Bruce Lee quote is an excellent one.

mmmm carved ham If you've got a knife, touch anything and everything you can with it; that's what it's good at. If you are inside the middle upper arm (the bicept area) there is a loveley artery. Lower it's inside the elbow, and higher in the armpit.