Real Stickfighting

Thank you Tuhon Bill. Your answer was exactly what I was looking for! My training partner came over tonight with a tire and a rope. Both are mounted on the mulberry tree in the front yard. Hitting the suspended tire from different angles is much different than swinging in plain air. :-)

It has been a fascinating pursuit in trying to find the best "high-percentage" techniques to use with the Cane. Your comments have been valuable to me in this pursuit....

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Chad:

Sorry for not replying sooner. I got so busy that I completely forgot i'd said anything in this thread ;)

When I said that we train for them and then don't go looking for them, what I meant was that we learn joint locks. They work and we know it because we put each other into them to learn how to apply them.

But we also train for, when in actual combat, not expecting to get any of them in. We try to end the fight as fast as possible, usually with a destruction of their strike followed by a flurry of strikes of our own. However, if the opportunity should present itself- - -we parry a punch and happen to trap their hand, for example, then we start the cycle of pressure points/joint locks. We train to never expect to be able to use anything, but to be able to use anything instantly should the opportunity arise. A good example is that my instructor is always saying he doesn't use kicks in a real fight. Kicks put you off balance. However, if the opponent gives you an opening where you can safely kick him, he gets kicked.

We do train realistically - -with and without pads and with and without weapons. In fact, none of our training is non-realistic - -- everything has application to real fighting. We don't even enter tournaments because we aren't well liked by them - - -we train for real combat situations, which is a much higher level of aggression than tournament sparring allows.

 
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