Quote: (10-22-2018 04:20 PM)Dalaran1991 Wrote:
On boxing for self defense, as Ive mentioned my roomate is a skilled boxer. In light sparring against bigger opponent he said there's very little he can do unless the guy is a total noob aka not keeping his hands up.
Plus, we discuss this often and we all come into the conclusion that boxing/striking is next to useless if you got a bigger guy flatly charges/bulldoze you.
Absolute rubbish. I've done boxing and muay thai. I'm not a golden glove or lumpinee champ. But there's half a dozen ways I could knockout a guy 50 pounds heavier than me (if untrained or novice). Bulk does not protect the chin. And if I wanted to be cruel, I could do much worse than knock the guy out.
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Last time in HEMA when I didnt get out of the way of a charging juggernaut I got fucking blasted off my feet and end up at the other side of the room. If I was really really good at Judo/Aikido I MIGHT have a slight chance of throwing him using his own momentum, but if I only know a striking art I'll just get flattened. Not sure just how good you gotta be to get to that level though.
Its called foot work man, and boxers have the best. If you know muay thai, it's even easier. Last time I had a charging bull come at me, I did a full power teep to his knee cap. Really the bigger they are the better in this scenario.
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Im the smallest in my aikido class and also one of the senior students. Every now and then Ill run into some newbies who are bigger and have less experience with combat, but are aggressive. Its almost impossible to perform a techniques on them without going for the occasional punch.
And this is why people dont take akido seriously.
If you took a middleweight (160lbs) who had placed in some regional golden gloves tourneys, and took him to a dive bar and said "find the biggest guy in here and pick a fight".
The big guy would swing and hit air for a couple minutes, rapidly gas out, and the middleweight would dance around toying with him for a bit. Then boom, counter and KO/TKO him. Every time.
Boxing is severely underrated for self defense. The foot work, speed, ability to find range, and sheer power they can generate via their hands would make even a middling boxer seem superhuman compared to a civilian.