Just because my arms aren't wrapped up in hemp and I'm not wearing long shorts doesn't mean it ain't muay oran. Here's a few things to consider about muay thai in general, but more specifically the older styles(muay boran, muay chao churd, mae mai, even lerdrit):
1. Even your defense is offensive, be ultra aggressive
2. Face the weapon
3. You rarely move back, more often you move in as your opponent strikes
4. Like in bando, you're always looking to take your enemy's territory (drive him back)
5. Strike hard, use your elbows often, and aim for soft tissue.
6. Blogspot's content editor doesn't auto format numbering...annoying.
I really don't recommend going under and hooking a kick in any street fight scenario. You leave yourself way too open, but in the ring when you're sparring, now that's another story.
Showing posts with label muay thai elbow block self defense street fighting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label muay thai elbow block self defense street fighting. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Friday, November 07, 2008
Old Style Muay Thai Clinch, Whoohoo!
The standard muay thai clinch simply isn't effective in a street/combat scenario. Once you grab onto your attacker his natural instinct will be to grab you - now you're wrestling with one (or more) opponents.
The ring style muay thai clinch serves two main purposes: 1. It gets you inside your opponent's strikes, providing an opportunity to score points (take down, or knees), and 2. it gives the winded fighter a short break. But in a street combat situation points don't count and your attackers certainly aren't going to tie up with you to catch a breather.
It's super important that you keep a hand free, and (more importantly) that you don't lose your ability to maintain visibility of your environment. The old style (ledrit, muay chao churt, muay baron) clinch allows you to control your opponent, use him as a shield from other attackers, and enables excellent visibility.
It's difficult to change old habits, and if you've been training to clinch up as soon as you get inside a one handed clinch is going to feel foreign (and maybe a little unrealistic). But if you give this technique a shot, I'm willing to bet, you'll soon realize that it opens up your striking & controlling options. Now you can throw elbows at different angles, knees, and even round kicks to your opponent's front and back. Try it out with a partner, you'll like it!
Watch video below. I provide technique and I touch on just a few of the options that open up. You won't learn this stuff at Fairtex.
Watch out for the man sandwich!
The ring style muay thai clinch serves two main purposes: 1. It gets you inside your opponent's strikes, providing an opportunity to score points (take down, or knees), and 2. it gives the winded fighter a short break. But in a street combat situation points don't count and your attackers certainly aren't going to tie up with you to catch a breather.
It's super important that you keep a hand free, and (more importantly) that you don't lose your ability to maintain visibility of your environment. The old style (ledrit, muay chao churt, muay baron) clinch allows you to control your opponent, use him as a shield from other attackers, and enables excellent visibility.
It's difficult to change old habits, and if you've been training to clinch up as soon as you get inside a one handed clinch is going to feel foreign (and maybe a little unrealistic). But if you give this technique a shot, I'm willing to bet, you'll soon realize that it opens up your striking & controlling options. Now you can throw elbows at different angles, knees, and even round kicks to your opponent's front and back. Try it out with a partner, you'll like it!
Watch video below. I provide technique and I touch on just a few of the options that open up. You won't learn this stuff at Fairtex.
Watch out for the man sandwich!
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Reality Always Wins!
When we ritualize our training we tend to take the fangs and claws out of the equation.
We have all known or heard the stories of some martial artists with black belts getting their butts handed to them by some street thug who knew the game all too well.
And yet time and time again in dojos and gyms across the country this type of training predominate the martial arts community.
Now I realize that many take up the martial arts to better themselves and to achieve the goal of receiving a black belt.
But somewhere in between the white belt to black belt journey, what is tradition, what is myth and what is reality gets blurred or lost.
All too often what ends up happening is that they are not ready to face reality when it hits them square in the jaw.
It's like somebody training in flag football for years and then trying out for full contact professional football, what do you think is going to happen?
Instant reality check!
It just doesn't make much sense to train this way, your setting yourself up to be victimized due to your own ignorance and training.
Understand the way you train in the gym may not translate well on the streets.
Case in point, I once had a kickboxing student come up and say that while he had kickboxing experience he had never been in a streetfight in his life.
I asked him if he would like to experience a streetfight scenario and he said YES.
So I hit him upside the head twice as I pushed him across the gym floor into the wall, there I tripped him and he hit the floor hard.
Panic was etched across his face as I pinned him to the wall and the floor with my knee in his chest.
I instantly started punching him in the head with one fist as my other hand held me up on the wall.
After 5-6 punches I lifted my knee off of him and started to stomp on his chest and stomach.
As I started to walk away I looked back at him and said "Congratulations you just had your first streetfight and you survived! Now learn from it".
As he sat there on the floor he just shook his head and said "that wasn't fair, I wasn't ready, you didn't tell me you were going to hit me right then and there, and you kinda hit me hard and didn't give me a chance to fight back and you fought dirty".
Exactly! You learned a lot from your ass wiping I told him.
This was one of the many examples that I've had the pleasure, I mean the opportunity to teach a student.
By the way I've taught this lesson to grapplers, boxers, kick-boxers and so called weapons experts and they have all come away with practical information that will one day save their lives.
And now it's your turn are you training as truthfully as you should be or are you hiding behind the skirt of your martial art traditions.
Pressure test what you know as often as you can and find out what works and what doesn't work for you.
And don't just discard what doesn't work but find out why it didn't work and see if you can modify it to work, and if it still doesn't work then discard it.
This will help ensure that your training will be there when you need it most and will not fail you.
And always remember "Reality Always Wins!"
Daniel Sambrano
“Keep It Simple and Savage”
www.SuperHeroSystems.com
We have all known or heard the stories of some martial artists with black belts getting their butts handed to them by some street thug who knew the game all too well.
And yet time and time again in dojos and gyms across the country this type of training predominate the martial arts community.
Now I realize that many take up the martial arts to better themselves and to achieve the goal of receiving a black belt.
But somewhere in between the white belt to black belt journey, what is tradition, what is myth and what is reality gets blurred or lost.
All too often what ends up happening is that they are not ready to face reality when it hits them square in the jaw.
It's like somebody training in flag football for years and then trying out for full contact professional football, what do you think is going to happen?
Instant reality check!
It just doesn't make much sense to train this way, your setting yourself up to be victimized due to your own ignorance and training.
Understand the way you train in the gym may not translate well on the streets.
Case in point, I once had a kickboxing student come up and say that while he had kickboxing experience he had never been in a streetfight in his life.
I asked him if he would like to experience a streetfight scenario and he said YES.
So I hit him upside the head twice as I pushed him across the gym floor into the wall, there I tripped him and he hit the floor hard.
Panic was etched across his face as I pinned him to the wall and the floor with my knee in his chest.
I instantly started punching him in the head with one fist as my other hand held me up on the wall.
After 5-6 punches I lifted my knee off of him and started to stomp on his chest and stomach.
As I started to walk away I looked back at him and said "Congratulations you just had your first streetfight and you survived! Now learn from it".
As he sat there on the floor he just shook his head and said "that wasn't fair, I wasn't ready, you didn't tell me you were going to hit me right then and there, and you kinda hit me hard and didn't give me a chance to fight back and you fought dirty".
Exactly! You learned a lot from your ass wiping I told him.
This was one of the many examples that I've had the pleasure, I mean the opportunity to teach a student.
By the way I've taught this lesson to grapplers, boxers, kick-boxers and so called weapons experts and they have all come away with practical information that will one day save their lives.
And now it's your turn are you training as truthfully as you should be or are you hiding behind the skirt of your martial art traditions.
Pressure test what you know as often as you can and find out what works and what doesn't work for you.
And don't just discard what doesn't work but find out why it didn't work and see if you can modify it to work, and if it still doesn't work then discard it.
This will help ensure that your training will be there when you need it most and will not fail you.
And always remember "Reality Always Wins!"
Daniel Sambrano
“Keep It Simple and Savage”
www.SuperHeroSystems.com
Friday, September 19, 2008
5 Key Components to Bareknuckle Power
To strike with power and be effective you need to be able to generate speed and force and be able to drive it to its destination.
Also you need to be able to do it without losing balance and stability or you will give your adversary the advantage.
Below are five key components that will help you be a more powerful Bareknuckle Striker.
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1. Move the feet from under the center of mass to quickly drive the body in the direction it needs to go.
In order for you to develop the power to knock someone out quickly, you need to bring your body weight behind your punch.
Footwork is the key but it must be a coordinated effort with your body mass.
You must be able to move as one unit, not as fragmented parts.
Both feet must be under your hips and on the ground or your punch will loose up to forty percent of its power output.
Drop Stepping and Trigger Stepping, two powerful components of power punching use the drive created from footwork to generate a large amount of force.
But, it must bring the body’s mass with it or your punch will not have knockout power.
2. Keep the hips low and level when moving linearly, laterally or diagonally.
If your hips are moving up and down like a buoy being tossed around on rough seas, you will be wasting your strength, energy and sacrificing speed.
Keeping the hips level as you move takes advantage of leverage and gravity to help increase your speed and movement.
Having your hips low gives you explosive balanced energy.
Your legs become compressed springs ready to explode and drive the body.
3. Be quick with your fists.
Never let your fists get behind the drive of your legs, hips and torso or your punches will lack power and follow through.
The fists must move in a coordinated effort with the feet and torso to be able to generate maximum power.
This will speed up your strikes without losing power.
This is what I call “Striking Off Your Move”, this principle is very important to use in a street fight.
Remember never drag your weapons to war.
4. Decelerate with purpose.
Nothing is more dangerous than to throw a punch with such force that it throws you off balance and leaves you open for a counter attack.
What is the use of throwing bombs that end up being duds and draining you of precious energy you can’t afford to lose?
You need to develop what I call “Controlled Aggression”, to be able to control your power and not let it get away from you.
Using this powerful principle will allow you to harness your power, you will be able to flow smoothly and chain your punches more effectively.
Having intent with every strike and step you take is the tactic you want to cultivate for better knockout stopping power in a street fight.
And if you miss, you will be able to instantly fire off another powerful strike, as you will be balanced, controlled and explosive without missing a beat.
5. Stop the power leakage.
Improper fist and body alignment will contribute to power leakage in your strikes and slow you down.
You will leak out power through your joints if they are not properly aligned when you throw a punch.
Adjusting and aligning your structure will go a long way to developing your power when striking.
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So there you have it five key components to help you unleash bareknuckle power on your unlucky adversary.
Using these five keys will help to unlock your potential to strike with power and destruction.
It will also take you less time and energy to do what needs to be done in a dangerous situation.
When violence tries to touch your life, take it out with Speed, Power and Intent using these five key components in your fight game.
Daniel Sambrano
“Keep It Simple and Savage”
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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