Drunken Boxing, any advice?

[Shane]

Well it looks like you train in Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu, I would continue with those, especially since you dont know of any schools to teach this art. I mean if you really want to do it thats great but I would continue training in a more realistic art and look at your drunken style as more of a hobby. And after reading this post some say you can make it effective when you perfect it so down the road your hobby might turn out to be good for self defense, but you cant really go wrong with muay thai and jiu jitsu.

 

my opinion ofcourse

[47MartialMan]

I have seen a guy perform a "drunken set". You have to be extremely flexible and throw yourself off-balance. Off-balance enough to FALL HARD. The guy I had seen was good. But he had practiced other arts before practicing that one.

 

Judo or Ju Jitsu will help you learn to fall.

[ddpc]

Yes i know. i have talked to my sensai about this and he is very skilled in many more styles than just muay thai and ju jitsu. but he was actually the one who suggested drunken boxing, but he had explained how hard it was to find a good teacher. he made it very clear that although it was more a form of kung fu that actually had strong basics. which is strange because this 67 year old Okinawan man i call Sensai has been studying the arts for almost his entire life, but says that he thinks that most kung fu is ineffective... or inadiquate in true self defense for lack of basics. i say this only because i respect him enough that if he simply suggests something i would obey. he is not just my teacher, he is also my mentor.

[battousai16]

"You have to be extremely flexible and throw yourself off-balance. Off-balance enough to FALL HARD."

 

falling hard dosen't take much. all you really have to do is throw a leg out or jump a bit.... or be thrown or swept. my falling training (Nak Bop, for you Koreans out there ) isn't especially extensive, and i'm not half as flexible as i should be, but i can still fall pretty damn well. the key to falling is really just to commit. still, falling is a great thing to learn, even if not specifically for the martial arts. i mean, how often do you get in a self defense situation compared to how often do you slip on the ice or trip over a shoe or something? just good things to know

[47MartialMan]

Fall hard without mats on concrete and without your hands!

[battousai16]

yes, i've done off the mat stuff. the key is, again, to commit and to fall on places where you don't have bones sticking out. y'know, the meaty places. i've been taught that you generally don't want to use your hands anyway, as that puts an awfully big strain on your wrists, often times in awkward, fragile postitions, especially if you make a mistake. falling to save a broken hip only does so much good when you walk away with a broken wrist, eh?

[47MartialMan]

Yeah, but the point that I am trying to make, is that if one is to practice Drunken Bosxing, then one should be prepared to stumble and fall.

[JerryLove]

it's not as off-balance in general movement as it appears.. it's usually very stable. Though you are quite correct that most drunken styles will deliberately throw themselves bodily to the floor.

[47MartialMan]

I wasn't applying that it is stable, that it takes much effort to appear unstable.

[CLFDisciple]

Choy Lay Fut has a drunken boxing form in it that i believe is based off of the 8 immortals (the real concept, not from drunken master) but it is a very advanced form and to my understand takes a crazy good base to pull off. i never asked my sifu about it because i always figured that when the time is right i would learn it from him.

 

Its a very rare form to my understanding as well.