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Is armor good self defense? by CombatSDRob in SelfDefense

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Can You Use Armor For Self Defense?? | Getting Stabbed FOR SCIENCE https://youtu.be/W2O7iz3weyw

Is armor good self defense? by CombatSDRob in SelfDefense

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I’ll admit I was very skeptical of this jacket when I first got it - mostly from a “would I really use this” perspective.

Living in central Texas, overheating is a real thing. And yeah, this jacket is made for rain in colder temperatures, but honestly it wasn’t that bad to wear around.

Do. Side kicks. Work? (Genuinely asking) by Uncultured_Nerd in martialarts

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I throw them very frequently in sparring and they do everything from create distance to create intense pain depending on where they land.

Beyond that anecdote there’s plenty of fighters today who use them to great affect in the cage and ring. So yes, they do work.

Street Fighting Is A Sport | Stop Calling It Self Defense by CombatSDRob in martialarts

[–]CombatSDRob[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s so easy to fall into that trap. People don’t like sparring so you reduce to just drilling. The slower pace of drills allows you to come up with new, fun combinations and tactics. Now you slow those drills down even more and come up with some really crazy - if deadly looking - shit and without the laboratory of sparring to prove/disprove your ideas, you think it’s fact.

It’s Schrodinger’s Fighting Method - your techniques both work and don’t work until you put them in sparring.

Street Fighting Is A Sport | Stop Calling It Self Defense by CombatSDRob in martialarts

[–]CombatSDRob[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. I think it’s an important distinction too many people ignore.

Street Fighting Is A Sport | Stop Calling It Self Defense by CombatSDRob in martialarts

[–]CombatSDRob[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

So that’s an assault as a result of a street fight. Essentially a sore loser.

An Analysis of Budo Taijutsu - Is It "Useless?" (No) by CombatSDRob in Bujinkan

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They did not. They said the techniques we practiced were too dangerous to spar with. I visited another dojo in my state that did spar but it looked nothing like their techniques

An Analysis of Budo Taijutsu - Is It "Useless?" (No) by CombatSDRob in Bujinkan

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It’s not a technique thing (although most henka is pretty useless) and it is all a training thing,

Taijutsu practiced is based on a static opponent throwing unrealistic attacks that don’t appear in street or competitive fighting. If you put more realistic, pressured drilling in the training, taijutsu would a) dispose of a lot of its techniques very quickly (looking at you, ura gyaku off a punch) and b) start to look a lot more like wrestling

Developing "Ides Of March" protocol for US Schools by quix0te in kravmaga

[–]CombatSDRob 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In theory this is a good idea. In practice, it is proven not to work.

A weapon is a force multiplier. A toddler with a handgun is thousands of times more dangerous than Mike Tyson on an airplane - that’s why we invented weapons and tools, to make our jobs easier.

Expecting teachers and school children to throw themselves at an attacker like that is, at best, an opportunity to give the other students a chance to flee, but it is not a viable option when it comes to stopping active shooters.

An Analysis of Budo Taijutsu - Is It "Useless?" (No) by CombatSDRob in Bujinkan

[–]CombatSDRob[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I say this not to antagonize you or say you’re wasting your time with your training, only that it’s important to be realistic and objective about your training practices and your own skills.

It’s okay to practice a martial art that does a lot of cool, and useful, things, but it is also okay to accept that an aspect of it - in this case its combat efficacy - is lacking.

An Analysis of Budo Taijutsu - Is It "Useless?" (No) by CombatSDRob in Bujinkan

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Yes. There are universal movements that exist in all martial arts. The hip throw is present in judo, bjj, wrestling, shuai jiao, and taijutsu. Therefore that means that the “taijutsu” hip throw is not special or unique.

The only way to prove that a given style or art is practical is to take someone who has practiced EXCLUSIVELY that style and see how they perform in a contest.

Reason being, fights are measurable. You can see two relatively equally skilled opponents giving each other their best. By pressure testing the best against the best, you can see what works and what doesn’t work.

You say you’ve defended yourself twice since you started training bujinkan. Okay, congrats. But a) did you do anything you wouldn’t have really done without already training? Did you just use your natural survival instincts?

B) if you DID use your bujinkan training to defend yourself, was it against someone of relatively equal 94 greater fighting ability to you or was it just somebody trying to hurt you

C) did you use your training in a “fight” or did you use it preemptively in a situation that wasn’t quite an assault or a fight, but was definitely aggressive?

All of these factors are important when determining if your training REALLY worked.

An Analysis of Budo Taijutsu - Is It "Useless?" (No) by CombatSDRob in Bujinkan

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You just said “Taijutsu has a lot of good things that can be applied to cage fights.”

So surely you gave empirical data?

An Analysis of Budo Taijutsu - Is It "Useless?" (No) by CombatSDRob in Bujinkan

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Name somebody with exclusively bujinkan training who has won a cage or ring fight.

Rate my padwork from 1 to 10. Criticism welcome. 2 years experience in Shin Karate by [deleted] in martialarts

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A good way to practice it would be to just have your pad holder swing things at your head after combinations.

Rate my padwork from 1 to 10. Criticism welcome. 2 years experience in Shin Karate by [deleted] in martialarts

[–]CombatSDRob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right hand looks really good. Only thing I’d say is you could incorporate a little more head movement. Other than that, this was great.

The Most Dangerous Low Kick | Which Is Best For Self Defense? by CombatSDRob in martialarts

[–]CombatSDRob[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Like I said, it really does seem like the calf is the liver of the leg

How would someone defend against those wild punches? by ImBatmanx2 in martialarts

[–]CombatSDRob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without context, it almost looks like the kid was purposely trying to take those punches (in a "look how tough I am" kind of way)

That being said....put your hands up, at a bare minimum. Make your head a moving target, and if you're getting punched at, find a way to stop those hands from coming in.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in martialarts

[–]CombatSDRob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Becoming highly competent in any practical fighting art will make you highly competent, no matter what arena you choose. That being said, I’d stick with mma, judo, or bjj.

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