hey there seamonkey, "For a martial art to be effective you have to spar in a realistic fashion. TMA's, don't often do this. You do find it in Boxing, Wrestling, Maui Thai, BJJ, Judo, Sambo and a few others."
The key differances are fear, real agression, consent, etc. Real violence has effects that "trained fighters" tend to overlook. Trained fighters can stand unable to enguage an atttacker simply becuase of fear. Would love to claim credit for some of this thinking but really there is a lot of this around Tony Blauer and Richard Dimitri (the guy that "Protect self defence " learnt from) are both very good in terms of undersntding the inhibiting effects of terror and fear on the trained fighter.
A higly training sport fighter can be overpowered but a violent highly motivated agressor simply because he is in a state of fear during which he does not have access to fine motor skills, cannot access all those fancy kicks, punchs, chokes because he is quiet simply terrifired. Dry mouth, uncontrollable shaking, crying, all good examples of normal reactions.
Real violence is differnet than sport, ive been into BJJ for a while and would accept that its just sport. You know what to expect, theres now fear, theres consent, alright will leave it there for now, what did you thik of the seminar ?
hey there seamonkey, "For a martial art to be effective you have to spar in a realistic fashion. TMA's, don't often do this. You do find it in Boxing, Wrestling, Maui Thai, BJJ, Judo, Sambo and a few others."
The key differances are fear, real agression, consent, etc. Real violence has effects that "trained fighters" tend to overlook. Trained fighters can stand unable to enguage an atttacker simply becuase of fear. Would love to claim credit for some of this thinking but really there is a lot of this around Tony Blauer and Richard Dimitri (the guy that "Protect self defence " learnt from) are both very good in terms of undersntding the inhibiting effects of terror and fear on the trained fighter.
A higly training sport fighter can be overpowered but a violent highly motivated agressor simply because he is in a state of fear during which he does not have access to fine motor skills, cannot access all those fancy kicks, punchs, chokes because he is quiet simply terrifired. Dry mouth, uncontrollable shaking, crying, all good examples of normal reactions.
Real violence is differnet than sport, ive been into BJJ for a while and would accept that its just sport. You know what to expect, theres now fear, theres consent, alright will leave it there for now, what did you thik of the seminar ?