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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2012 18:21:35 GMT -5
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Post by rollingrock128 on Oct 10, 2012 23:06:16 GMT -5
i'm sorry but saying blocks and parries don't work is ignorant.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2012 3:46:57 GMT -5
I actually think that blocks and parries work. Why else do all martial arts have em.
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Post by Glutton4Punishment on Oct 11, 2012 15:37:55 GMT -5
You know how sometimes when you expect people to walk over and hand something to you they just end up throwing it at you? Ever had that happen when you didn't see it until it was halfway to you and on a path toward your face? It happens to me all the time at work because people don't know how to hand things to each other, and usually my flinch response kicks in and I end up catching them before they pop me in the head. That same flinch response can stop the first punch. It's happened before and it's going to happen again in the future.
But what did Thompson mean by blocking? Did he mean big, over exaggerated blocks that take as long to employ as a punch actually takes by itself? Because in that case, he'd be right. There's no room to react with that. But you can protect your head from the first punch as long as you can see it coming. Just don't expect to stop a sucker punch that you can't see, always watch the body language of anybody that you think might be about to try to lay you out.
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Post by odee on Oct 12, 2012 19:05:33 GMT -5
Blocking and parrying work if you can employ them as a reaction. If you have to think about it it won't work - In the same way Glutton can react and catch a ball at the last second a person can parry a punch to the side in much the same fashion, they don't think they register and react on muscle memory. The thought process of a reaction is Incoming->Catch. The thought process of an action is Incoming->Identify->Consider options->Catch. I've been around a quarter of a century and in that time I've reacted to hundreds of thousands of incoming objects by catching them, to get to that point I was probably hit by several thousand. Now though I don't think about it I just do it, the same is true of blocks and parries but like the ball it must be learned in real-time with being hit the result of failure. It must become your reaction rather than a considered response. If you have time to consider what to use you're not doing it properly. One step drills for instance are good for getting the motion down but once it is down it must be enforced with no warning and no timing cues to become a reaction rather than an action.
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Post by Chef Samurai on Oct 19, 2012 11:15:27 GMT -5
they only work if you can make them & if you can't make them work they are useless for you.
it's like most things in life, just because someone else can do it doesn't mean you can do it, but it doesn't mean you cant eve do it, it just means you cant do it right now but maybe you can overcome that and be able to do it in the future but that's up to you to learn to do.
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