"I don't know if anyone is known with the art of "sitting on your couch" here, but in my eyes it is also to be a martial art.
It is the art of avoiding dangerous situations. It helps you to avoid a dangerous situation by not actually being there. So lets say there is a dangerous situation going on somewhere other than your couch. You are safely seated on your couch so you have in a nutshell "difused" the situation."
There really isn't a strong WC strategy in my opinion. I think that typically what one would try to do in WC is to get off finger and wrist locks along with eye gouges. The problem with that strategy though is that a WCer doesn't have the understanding of body position like the grappler and the grappler can resort to gouging and locks on the smaller joints as well. If someone has you in a scarfhold, do you really think that it is wise to poke him in the eye and really make him mad?
If a WCer is going to be taken to the ground it needs to be a race to how quickly he can get to the vital points. Although, like I said, without a good understanding of position, there really aren't good options for a "strict" WCer who has been mounted or put into a scarfold etc.
Edit: The only weakness that I think that a WCer could expose against a grappler is that often grapplers get overly into the sport aspects so in that regard a WCer could have a small chance of success.
Last edited by HumbleWCGuy; 07-20-2010 at 11:53 AM.
Chain punch to the mount will result in you being smothered then choked out or arm dislocated in arm bar or other submission...
Chain punch vs. Side mount would again have you submitted.
Chain punch against side control would lead you into a choke or crucifix.
Chain punch against a RNC would be an unconscious WCK'er.
Of course, people would say never get in the situation, but sometimes its unavoidable. I have always been a big advocate for cross training and know martial arts deal with 5 main areas: striking, kicking, joint locking, throwing and ground fighting.
Besides Fujian Dog Fist, Drunken Boxing and Di Tang Men, Chinese martial arts rarely deal with ground fighting.
Is WCK is useless in the above situations? Try it out. Get into the above scenarios and see how you will get out of them with WCK. Share with the group. No politics, just a positive discussion.
You do realize when moving to the ground the number of centerlines grows from 3 to 7.
Besides the center and the shoulder/nip lines you have to add the 2 hip, 2 knee lines. The head line is the same as the center centerline although it can have some curve to it. Some people include the elbow lines but a good grappler and chunner will keep his elbows close and do as Eddie Bravo calls it, a T-Rex.
Hope that helps everyone.
Last edited by m1k3; 07-20-2010 at 12:07 PM. Reason: My math sucks.
i'm not real familar with WC, so i don't know what they have to offer. From the reaction i can see that its not much.
Originally posted by BawangOriginally posted by Bawangi had an old taichi lady talk smack behind my back. i mean comon man, come on. if it was 200 years ago,, mebbe i wouldve smacked her and took all her monehs.i am manly and strong. do not insult me cracker.
hmm I don't really follow the 7 lines theory..?
what Eddie calls T-Rex or Home alone is BJJ 101 you learn from the start.. I honestly (no disrespect to anyone) don't think someone who hasn't been shown,and put into a high stress situation using that style of defensive nature will do it naturally. In my experience its by allot of bridging attempts. Everyone says bridge but what they don't realize is thats well and good like sprawling.. how to use it is a whole other ball game.
Robert, I don't understand , if you say that any fighting is VT then anything you would do would be a VT response so why ask the questions, just like the biu jee guilloten its all the same thing isn't it
You're a facetious little knob mobster aren't you.
Not getting into them in the first place is a good start.
What if scenarios are nothing but hot air filled, circle jerk sessions. Something I hear you're quite experienced at.
Realistically, there is no tapping out in a real fight. You die or you live, nothing more. If you let someone sink a choke deeply enough, you can't escape.
Something needs to be done quickly to make the pressure ease to allow you to attempt an escape. Break a finger, bite whatever you can get a hold of.
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
-sun tzu