Originally Posted by
cjurakpt
so the way to counteract this, as you say, is to train context specific as much as you possibly can, against someone that is going to give you a sufficiently high degree of interference - meaning that, if you are a beginner stiker, you not only have to adapt to a new situation, you have to deal with a variable that is trying to disrupt you as well - meaning that as a beginner, you want to weithe train against a not very good grappler, or a good one who modified what they are doing to at least give you a chance to get in some tries and have some sort of limited success - the trick here is, how long do you keep it this way, and when do you know to turn up the volume so to speak, and also how? do you, as the grappler, come in faster? stronger? add feints? use different techniques? in other words, how do you structure the prctice in order to get the best results, not only within a given practice session, but sequentially over multiple sessions (retention) and finally is there transfer if the stikre then faces a different grappler (transfer)?
on the other hand, if you are an "advanced" striker, you can focus most of your attention to adapting your delivery system to the new situation
and pay less attention to your own intrinsic mechanics, right? well, it depends: if you are a pro-boxer, it might actually b harder, because you have become so specialized at hitting a certain way, that if you take someone out of that specificity, they might actually be worse than someone with no experience - again, it depends on the individual (some people are just intrinsically are better at transferring skills) and how far outside of their box they are relative to how specific they are trained
which is why the whole "deadly arsenal of kung fu" argument doesn't work: unless you train your "eagle tears out the noodle" on a skilled grappler who is trying to not let you get near their vital parts (and I think I'm safe in saying that your average grappler has a fair idea of what it's like to get hit in the face, throat, etc. purely in context of "accidents" that happen in training and competition); the difference between punching someone in the head and poking them in the eye / clawing their throat is negligible, is that in the latter case you have much smaller target areas that the brain is reflexively designed to protect more so than pretty much any other parts of the body (same with the groin - people thin it's so easy just to kick someone there - sure, if the guy is stupid and stands still with his legs spread...); so if you want to be able to use those deadly techniques, you better have some opportunity to practice them against a live, fully-resisting opponent, or you can't really rely on those as an ace-in-the-hole