migo
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Post by migo on Apr 10, 2006 2:10:15 GMT -5
I imagine we all know certain arts have a sizeable occurence of useless moves, this was mostly reafirmed when some of my friends who do Hapkido were practicing for a belt test, and did a chunk of wrist locks, most of which I had to concentrate on letting them finish even though I'd never seen them before. There was one that was actually pretty decent.
For a bearhug from behind, under the armpits, where he's grabbing his wrist and the other hand isn't holding anything (instead of indian or olympic grip which is better, but a lot of people, myself included will slip up and do the wrist grip), grab the empty hand with your matching hand and pull up, and with your other hand push down on his gripping hand, it cranked my wrist pretty quickly, and it wasn't easy to switch grips. I figure that might go pretty well with the squatting and pushing down on the hands to break the grip strategy, and when he lets go to switch grips it shouldn't be hard to get a kimura out of it.
What other useful tidbits are there from the less overall effective arts or technique pools?
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Post by kaeden on Apr 10, 2006 9:57:14 GMT -5
No to deraile your topic, but how do these martial arts even evolve or exist? If they are so ineffective it would seem they would die, as practitioners get defeated.
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Post by jwwright on Apr 10, 2006 15:44:02 GMT -5
They evolve thru marketing...$$$$$$$ Yes your son little jonnie can be a black belt in dontgiveacrap-do
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migo
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Post by migo on Apr 10, 2006 21:08:54 GMT -5
As long as we live in an environment where we don't have to actually fight, useless fighting techniques and arts can thrive.
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Post by jwwright on Apr 10, 2006 22:37:05 GMT -5
You should say as long as they live in an """" ... you speak the truth . Now if anyone is intrested in my new martial art system ... kungfoolery. you can send me a blank check and I'll send your pink belt.
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Post by Vince on Apr 11, 2006 0:33:41 GMT -5
As long as we live in an environment where we don't have to actually fight, useless fighting techniques and arts can thrive. Now that is a great quote Migo! So much truth in it.
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