Originally posted by Mat
Exactly.
[/b]If it's on, you don't have time to get an improvised weapon. Even if you're in a bar with your hands on a chair, what's quicker, the glass or the chair? And if you're in a bar with your hands on a glass you may just get away with it in court even if you have the balls to use it, but you're probably going down.
And yeah to getting close, that's what I meant by jamming (if my jum sao misses I'm hoping for the bottom of the ribs, if my pak misses it shoul be hs sternum etc) and wrapping up, by which I meant a takedown, or close entanglement on his arm... eg a garn sao under his arm... any of which combined with the hardest thing you can throw in his face, probably an elbow at that range.
On the other hand thinking about it, stepping back and kicking low and had (like a stop kick or a kick to his shins) may give you enough time to run, given the space. It's a high percentage of a hit, but if you miss, he's coming in like a steamtrain (with a knife!!!).Is that right? I think it's the other way round esp from a concealed strike. [/B]