Quote Originally Posted by Drake View Post
I don't know how MMA guys do their tackles, but what's keeping you from pek choi'ing the back of their neck when they come at you? Or lau kiu'ing an arm and then pek choi'ing their neck? Or just using an aikido tech and letting them throw themselves? Never tried the last one, but I've seen it work.
A well paced tackle or shoot (mostly shoots are used) is not a single attack, but usually done off either a fake or as a counter or as part of a combination of moves.
Its difficult at best to meet a tackle head on and while pivoting and angling are ideal, doing that when you DON'T know a tackle is coming is, to say the least, difficult.
Countering an attempted take down is like countering any other move, no one is just gonna throw a left hook at your head, they will throw it in a combination of moves or as a counter, so to think you can do A to counter B is silly because it doesn't take into account what happens before, during and after the event.

Don't know how clear that was...