Quote: (03-01-2018 08:10 AM)Dalaran1991 Wrote:
Thanks for the recommendation Kai. I'm 27 now so not too much time left to take advantage of boxing, might as well start ASAP. While I have a slight idea of being in a confrontation I admit I know jack shit about throwing a good punch.
Funny you bring back the throat grab, because despite the all the ridicule Aikido get, getting your throat/arm/shirt grabbed is actually way more common than getting stabbed. The great thing with aikido is that it de-escalate the situation if you manage to pull it off. My beef with Aikido is I dont know if I can pull it off in real life, though I know perfectly how to do it on the tatami.
My textbook reaction would be something like this, but I finish with a hiji kime osae/arm lock and tell the guy to calm the fuck down.
But against a really big guy? Not sure. Might need to ask the biggest bud in the dojo to grab me and see. Problem with asking aikidoka people to grab you is they know what's coming so they dont grab as hard as some untrained bonehead would.
Compared that to something gimmicky like this, what would you say? My old US dojo taught by black cops was pretty big on pressure point striking against a superior opponent, but personally I wouldn't rely on precision striking in a moment of panick.
If your armlock does not work on a bigger guy, punching him in the face most certainly will not work. You are defeating the purpose of studying SJM and Grappling in the first place. Positioning, leveraging, and manipulation is designed to give you a deep edge against a larger attacker.
Just like how I told that story about the roided out skinhead I saw outside glaring at me to come fight him, I knew based upon his size and muscles that no amount of BJJ I had would be enough to stop him without serious injury. Punching or kicking him is even worse. That is completely out of the question. I did not even bother to factor in strikes. His bone density alone due to the super high T levels could get me injured either leg or fist. Floyd Mayweather broke his fingers on other dudes harder heads because of his age and T levels are not high enough to match theirs.
When you size up a threat you need to factor in these things better. If I had enough sense to put the gas pump away and run back into the car and drive off, you can get away from most super large threats as well. I bet you run faster than me by a large margin. Never feel as if you cannot escape something, unless you are obviously cornered on all sides up against a wall by multiple opponents.
Pressure point striking is a hotly contested issue in the realm of traditional martial arts.
Guys like the dude in your video from the UK, are obviously super hardcore, and are deep students of martial arts. He's either a martial arts genius or just a fanatic obsessed with perfecting the craft.
Guys with decent or less interest in martial arts will never be able to fully unlock the potential and the power of the invisible hand or pressure point fighting in general. Period.
Guys like that should stick with hard styles and sports styles and call it a day.
You might even be someone like this.
It's almost like a religion issue. God exists, but some choose to believe it or worship God and some either don't care about it or flat out think God does not exist at all. Same goes for pressure point fighting.
Funnily enough, you have to believe in it first, enough to learn how to do it and master it. If you do not, chances are super high you never will learn it at all to begin with.
It's super outside the box and is the Computer Hacking of Martial Arts. Non-Hackers cannot understand how it works and think its hocus pocus stuff. Like old people talkin' bout "he does all that cumpooter stuff".
It's certainly not for everyone because even if all people were interested, most would not get it or would be very limited in it's application.
One observation I found in my experience is not only is the only defense against pressure point strikes, very large muscles, but even then, some people's fingers are so strong, they will attack them anyway.
You could look like Hulk Hogan in his prime. If a legit Shaolin style monk wants to stop you cold in your tracks with a strike on your pectoral muscle, temporarily paralyzing your legs, he is more than strong enough to penetrate your pec muscles with those two fingers required. Anyone that can break a two rocks, while holding an unbroken egg inside their palm, can easily do that.
I once tried to squeeze a 330 pound student's pressure point on his left shoulder during a randori, to get his grip off me, and his fat actually prevented me from hitting the right spot. I was too bewildered to bother fishing for the right spot, I just tried other things. I should not have been using that anyway, but when I was 180 pounds, and you are 250+, you should be beating me easily anyway, I might cheat a little just so I didn't suffocate back then.
Another thing is that how many people are on Earth that can even do this stuff? like .001%? Your chances of meeting another in combat is super low. The ones that do know, usually refuse to touch others. If you see me in person, I never mind showing it off if you really want to see something or learn about it and you are not trying to be a dick or start a fight.
Also there are like 4 levels of pressure points.
Low Effort
Medium Effort
Hard Effort
Special Effort
Low and Medium ones are the ones you always see in Aikido classes for the non-senior students. Systema, Basic Hapkido, Karate, Basic JJ, some BJJ, Judo, Basic Wu Shu/Kung Fu, etc. etc.
Hard and higher? LOL!
Even some that are ranked as Hard, I cannot even do. Special ones? I'll give you an example. Dim Mak has pressure points and meridians that cannot be used depending upon the tide of the oceans/moon and also the time of the day or night, otherwise they do not work at all. They even have stuff that takes the attacker's blood pressure into account. Now how can they tell what your blood pressure is in the middle of a fight? I have no idea. I'm not willing to spend 20 years studying that to find out either.
Anyway I digress. Grappling and Pressure points (and SJM) have almost nothing to do with attacker size. They were invented to deal with larger opponents, even if there are still some limits. Larger cavemen have been hitting women and puny men over the head with strikes for thousands of years. No one really needed to teach anyone how to take advantage of that.