Originally Posted by
wiz cool c
anyone with fighting experience knows it is definitely better to have both grappling and striking in your arsenal, that’s why kung fu systems have throws locks and escapes[with cross training filling in the gaps]. But it really depends on a lot of things whether you end up in on the ground or in a clinch. In the early 90s the Gracies were selling there style and claiming 90 something percent of all fights end on the ground. In my own personal experience it is about 50 % of the time.
The last six real fights I have been, in three needed on the ground. One I struck a guy with an open hand strike in the throat he went down rolled onto his stomach and I kneeled behind him and choked him out[he started the fight, I gave him many opportunities to let it end peacefully]
the other was when I was working at a gym back in new York and the manager[a high ranking black belt in an eclectic style jumped me from behind] I wound up on my back on a table with him in my open guard, and arm bared him with him yelling in agony till the fight was broken up. That fight can be verified, just go to the 92nd street Y on the upper east side of Manhattan and ask one of the old trainers about a fight that took place between manager David and a trainer named Chris.
The other took place in what they call a lady bar in Beijing when I first moved to china, they tried to scam me to buy a bunch of drinks,in a little KTV room down a long hall and down some tall flight of stairs. When I refused to pay one guy tried grabbing my I used a baguazhang double handed strike/shove and sent him into the KTV machine, the other guy little bigger and more fit started coming at me. I was bit nervous [spoke no Chinese at the time, and didn’t’t know if people cary weapons or what in china] so I backed up and tripped onto the sofa and he came at me,I kept him at bay with open guard my feet keeping him away at his hips, when he got closer every time I would kick him in the face a few times. The fight ended with the hooker slapping me while I kick the one guy in the face and the other guy I shoved into the KTV machine yelling go go, from a distance. I wound up giving the manager something like 300 rmb just to get out of there quickly.
by the way these are real stories not fantasies, as far fetched as they may sound. anyone doubting their authenticity feel free to go to my facebook page[chris friedman] and see the unusual life i live, many of my real life experiences could easily be misinterpretated to be kungfuhero guy type of fantasies.