why all zones should be practiced.

[Dragonzbane76]

So, why should we practice all area's of fighting? Why do people become "comfortable" in a certain zone and not think they should expand? Being younger I thought that what i learned was "enough." Never taking into consideration that pressure against my offense was going happen. Humbling in most senses I found that traveling around to other schools and placing myself in difficult positions presented me with a clear view of why we should do just that. Place ourselves in "uncomfortable" positions.

Any thoughts?

[YouKnowWho]

If you are a computer programmer, 30 years ago all you have to do is to be able to design

- DB2 database,
- Microsoft Word,
- DOS operating system,
- ...

Today if you want to get a job in the computer programmer field, you have to be able to design

- Google search engine,
- website,
- virus protection,
- ...

I have never expect people used "pull guard" or "jump guard" before. The day that someone did that to me, the day that I started to train how to deal with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pUn8_sCRRI

The reason that we train is to handle the modern world challenge. Today we have to deal with different kind of challenge than our ancestor had to. We may not like to "evolve" but we don't have choice.

[Dragonzbane76]

on concrete....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJzP6kiVv34&NR=1

[vociferor]

We seldom learn when we're in the most comfortable of places. It's often through struggle that all manner of ordeals are presented to us and we are asked to overcome.

edit: in the words of Depeche Mode, "Suffer Well"

[Drake]

In the words of Dodgeball...

"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!"

[bawang]

i dont like ground fighting and im not gonna learn ground fighting. for 10 thousand years people decided if you hit the ground u lose for very good reasons.

ground fighting makes no sense. whole premise of vale tudo makes no sense.

i got intersted in high school because i watched a lot of ufc. i lost all interest after i learned about all that steroid abuse.

[SPJ]

in mantis

short strikes and long strikes are used back to back.

intermediate distance for setting up qin na and grappling is always there.

top, mid and bottom

left and right

close body kao and throw

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they are all covered.

[Drake]

i dont like ground fighting and im not gonna learn ground fighting. for 10 thousand years people decided if you hit the ground u lose for very good reasons.

ground fighting makes no sense. whole premise of vale tudo makes no sense.

i got intersted in high school because i watched a lot of ufc. i lost all interest after i learned about all that steroid abuse.

So all I have to do is knock you down and jump on top of you?

[SPJ]

the context of ground fighting

is like one against one

how about fighting multiple opponents on the ground

can you arm bar 2 arms or more arms at the same time?

[bawang]

So all I have to do is knock you down and jump on top of you?

if u knock me down u kick me

in pride and art of war the referee has to move you away after you kick too much because the guy cant get up.

[Drake]

if u knock me down u kick me

in pride and art of war the referee has to move you away after you kick too much because the guy cant get up.

Isn't the whole purpose of knocking a guy down so that you can beat the everloving *&^% out of him?

If you get knocked down, that's your fault. If you can't protect yourself on the ground, that's your fault too.

Nothing dishonorable in exploiting a miserable gap in an unprepared opponent.

[Lucas]

All growth happens outside the comfort zone. How many people train to deal with that scenario though. If u get knock down or thrown and instead of following u down your opponent starts whailing on you with full force soccer kicks to your neck, head and spine? Kicking a downed opponent is most reasonable in real life. You have less risk of the fight turning against you and you remain 100% mobile to run from backup or sirens. I'm not saying learn ground no good but getting kick while u are down by someone wanting to hurt you bad is tough to escape, esp if more than one guy kicking you. This is why all gang beatings happen just like that. There is an element of pride and ego and 'honor' that dictates ww don't conduct ourselfs as such..but that's not the reality outside

[bawang]

Isn't the whole purpose of knocking a guy down so that you can beat the everloving *&^% out of him?

if you straddle me like a pony youre gonna get the sh1t beat out of you in real life.

people dont magically stand around in a cricle cheering "woaaaaaah" like those youtube videos

[taai gihk yahn]

if you straddle me like a pony youre gonna get the sh1t beat out of you in real life.

not unless you have one of these:

[Drake]

if you straddle me like a pony youre gonna get the sh1t beat out of you in real life.

people dont magically stand around in a cricle cheering "woaaaaaah" like those youtube videos

All I've ever done was real life. Never stepped foot in a tournament.