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Post by youxia on Jul 6, 2012 21:20:43 GMT -5
Oh good lol, I've since read a lot of those articles and I thought he was great, especially his theory on the "melee zone", that was eye opening
And yeah on the guard article, it's the same in most, if not all kung fu styles. Was interesting to hear bare knuckle did the same thing, especially after chefsamurai pointed out it had a lot in common with Wing Chun
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Post by Chef Samurai on Jul 8, 2012 5:42:34 GMT -5
@youxia- its kinda complicated.
his theory of claytons gap is dead right but he was wrong about it not being able to be fully extended and in bkb it has to do with something called time & measure and false times & measures where you can use your position to draw people in for counters and stuff.
I hold my arm almost fully extended probably 85% and I can block doing something called a leverage block which comes from the hips and doesn't rely in arm power just like my punches are from the hip so my arm can be as far out as I want all they are there for is to add speed to the mixture of speed x mass and my bodys the mass and my legs are the initial power added to the mixture.
I see punching as a car (body) driving and just before it crashes into something a hydraulic piston (arm) launched out at several hundred miles per hour which is much faster than the car & hits with all the force of the car behind it with new added speed making it much harder.
Both a car & a hydraulic piston can hit hard but together they can hit much harder & that's how machines work and the human body is built like a machine where every part compliments or handicaps another that's why we have to move differently all the time for everything because as complicated machines we are more susceptible to physics than say a rock lol
I don't know exactly know what your talking about though can you elaborate a bit?
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Post by gunter on Jul 8, 2012 6:03:58 GMT -5
I liked the article as I changed my boxing stance to one like that and Wing Chun
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Post by youxia on Jul 8, 2012 16:09:05 GMT -5
lol all I meant was because they used a guard which could deflect punches
but on another note, you should seriously consider writing some articles on stuff if you havent already
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Post by Chef Samurai on Jul 8, 2012 18:34:51 GMT -5
lol oic yeah then they did use a stance to deflect punches and I havn't wrote any articles yet but I have like 5 years of notes I've been sorting through the past few weeks & I'm going to put a few things in history whenever I get some free time but I just started summer school to upgrade my english credit so I might be a while but I'm going to write something up about time & measure right now since it's on my mind..
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 20:41:49 GMT -5
The clayton block he talks about is very similar to the stance that Wing Chun holds with their arms in front and old school bare knuckle boxers used.
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Post by shurite99 on Oct 17, 2012 8:30:40 GMT -5
My opinion parries are effective. You can use them to block and punch almost simultaneously which is nice. Of-course timing and speed is important here but when isn't it. During my brown belt test i was using a lot of the parrying similar to the bas rutten video above and it saved me from quite a few hits. It was good because i was getting belted and short parries use little energy I have seen videos of both sport karate and pankration where long parrying is used effectively along with a quick counter.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2012 16:57:57 GMT -5
Didn't Lyoto Machida use a parry (or was it a block?) just before he knocked out Ryan Bader?
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Post by shurite99 on Oct 18, 2012 8:01:50 GMT -5
I just youtubed it. Looks like an outside parry to me.Though it was a pretty small movement, you could probably argue either way.
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