Quote:
Originally Posted by Shinobi_Kokujin  ive never seen a person who does TKD or MT or Kickboxing.....get into a street fight an not have hands up in some manner. at least in the circles i train with.
thats like common sense to have your hands up. or at least put up some kind of defense after taking some shots to the face that dont knock you out. if that
doesnt work then thats on them. the hands up thing gets nit picked alot. just cause you got your hands up against someone doesnt mean that you cant still get your tail whooped |
I've seen fights with TKD sport fighters (and other arts) start with thier hands up, but most invariably put them down to thier waist. Why? Because they revert to thier training.
I'm sorry, but I don't believe a person can train for years a certain way then when put under the stresser of real life self defense suddenly do something different than what the training has instilled. That is counter the training and it just doesn't work that way.
As far as putting your hands up after you've been hit in the face being common sense...well that's like closing the garage door after the car has been stolen. Why wasn't it closed in the first place?
Yes, a person with thier hands up can get beat. However, a person with thier hands down to thier waist is going to get beat a lot easier. With the hands down to the waist you have less than half your defense/attack ready. Its almost like fighting no handed. That's all good and wonderful if you have no arms, but why on earth would you do it if you have arms?
You will fight how you train.