Only Eight Martial Arts Techniques!
Yep,
there are only about eight martial arts techniques,
everything else is fluff and stuff.
Of course there are a thousand deviations,
and they are valuable for your overall education,
but,
when you get to the down and dirty,
there are only eight techniques.
Now,
this is not boxing.
This not padded gloves to dissipate force,
and eliminate grabs.
This is somebody strikes
or is going to strike,
and you either slab and grab his arm,
or you shoot straight in
going for the one punch knock out.
One strike one kill,
you know?
Of course,
as everybody knows,
a plan only works until the fight starts.
SO,
once you have tried to stick your fingers in his eyes,
and MAYBE tried a follow up body shot…
you will find yourself on the inside of his arm
or on the outside of his arm.
You don’t have time for a poser,
he’s not going to wait while you do all your tricks.
You only have one chance.
And,
derivation here,
what I am going to tell you works best,
and perhaps at all
if you ‘shock and lock’ him.
Which is to say,
you simply distract him with a slap or an elbow or something
so that you have an opportunity to apply one of the eight techniques.
If you have twenty years experience
you can consider not doing the ‘shock and lock,’
but that’s at your own risk.
If you are on the inside of his arm
elbow the head and push his arm up into a ‘chicken wing’ elbow lock.
Or, elbow the area under the armpit and snake your arms around
to a ‘figure four’ armlock.
Either of these can deviate out to arm bars or splitting techniques
(lower body goes in the opposite direction of the upper body)
or spinning him around and angling him up to what I call
a ‘vertical arm pin.’
that’s two techniques with a few deviations.
third, foot sweep,
can be deviated into knee to groin
or various kicks,
but you want to pull his leg viciously
and make him face plant
so you can walk on his neck.
Four,
if you haven’t locked in that body shot,
do it now.
Reverse punch,
and I often teach the ‘pubic punch,’
which is angling the punch down towards the hip joint.
He collapses on the ground and it takes no special force or effort.
Now,
if he strikes,
and you end up on the outside of his arm,
cool.
Inside means you have targets,
but you have also presented targets.
Outside means you have less targets,
but have presented almost no targets for him.
Slap and grab,
or perhaps just let him punch between your arms.
First technique is simply an arm bar,
or an elbow roll deviation.
Second technique,
elbow to the head and extend your arm in front of his face,
and slide your leg behind him to split him.
(top goes one way, bottom goes the other)
Third technique,
elbow under the arm,
split him by going under the arm.
Whether you split him by going under or over his arm
is often dependent on the relative height
of your opponent.
You can add sweeping to this,
because there is an inherent sweep in the split.
fourth technique, punch.
Hard.
Break things in his body.
So that is the list of eight techniques,
which eight lead to a variety of deviations,
if you enter one of the eight,
the deviations become apparent with practice.
He punches and you are inside.
1) elbow head and elbow lock over his arm
2) elbow armpit and elbow lock under his arm
3) Punch (pubic preferred)
4) Sweep w leg options
He punches and you are on the outside
5) break and/or arm bar/elbow roll
6) split above the arm
7) split under the arm
8) punch
Now,
I know there are going to be all sorts of objections here.
Some of the objections will be that you simply don’t understand my terms,
but if you examine the description of the techniques,
you will find them in your art,
or your art is severely lacking.
Some of the objections will be that you have a thousand techniques in your art
and you simply can’t give them up.
But I am not asking you to give up your data base.
I am merely asking you to focus on that first punch in a fight
and do some real karate.
Some of the objections will be because there are no pictures
and it is difficult to mock up these techniques in your mind.
Why don’t you kick?
Kicking is for when you are far away
and kicks take time to become ‘one strike one kill,’
and you want to close and break or disable
as much as you can in a direct and short period of time.
Karate is not a far away polite business.
It is mean and nasty and as brutal as you can make it.
Why are you not making the split one of the techniques on the inside?
Because you have to go through the closure of distance,
and that is the progression of closing distance after the fight starts
What the heck is ‘shock and lock,’ and do I have time for it?
It is hitting on the way in,
and the way I have set it up there is extreme fluidity of motion
that will make the progression from slap and grab to shock and lock
and to the final technique incredibly fast and virtually unavoidable.
What about wrist locks?
They are there,
but it is difficult to grab a fist in the middle of a fight.
It is easier when he is there,
and maybe trying to back out of his predicament.
And there are other objections.
But if you study what I said here,
and just drill the eight techniques for a short time,
and just explore your position…
everything will become apparent.
Incidentally,
what I say here is in all my courses,
but I never really talk about it
except as the technique progresses.
But it really is the essence of my Monkey Boxing.
I really should write a book on this little thing I have said here.
But…time. Sigh.
Okay,
guys and gals,
hope you got something out of all this,
and feel free to look at…
How to Fix Karate:
A Karate Training and Workout Book
(Two Volumes)
(There is a version with five hours of video
but you have to hunt for it on Amazon)
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Have a great work out!
Al
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