Alpine,
I am sure you have looked at the Geoff Thompson stuff. Geoffs stuff is very good. What I like about Hocks system is he takes it one step further.he takes it to a new level...he aways asks the question "What if".
For example "What if" you were on a plane and it got hijacked and there were sleepers on board and the terrorists wanted to crash the plane into a building. This could be the worst possible scenario..rather then saying "**** theres nothing we do"..there is always a possible way out of a crisis..do you see what I mean ?.
Hock is coming over from the US in April to run a worse case scenario seminar. Will send u the details maybe u can come along.
Hocks system again is very reality based similiar to your system. Hocks belief is that in order to be a total warrior one has to become proficient with the hand, stick, knife and gun.
In order to defend against a knife one has to understand how the knife can be used, same as stick and gun. You'll notice some of Hocks stuff is based on the filipino based systems especially the knife and stick.
I am not one of these nutters who collects knives, guns nothing like that..I just want to beable to understand how someone can use a weapon against me..since the threat is not the weapon its the user.
Very often people are put of my the ugliness of the reality systems and would rather go and study a system like Wushu that is very 'Jet Li'..and the forms look so beautiful.
I am rabbiting on again about my thoughts again
When people ask me "Are u a good fighter" I say "No but I am a good Lover"
Originally posted by Alpine
English,
We throw stuff on the floor, swear loudly even use simulated blood for knife defence and apache/kali knife work.
But you can't beat a bit of a kicking for adrenaline dumping. If you look at systems like KM they do indeed use moves that are natural, same on Jim Wagner stuff, it's all instictual + situational awareness.
I have met many Karate guys both in and out of the training environment and I feel it's one of the least effective MA for street defence, yet of course there is always the exceptional guy out there who would kick anyones butt, karate or not.
Saw your club website, looks similar in many ways to ours with the reality based approach.
Hey English, I've been around long enough to know that there are millions of guys who could floor me easy, either by power, speed, technique, aggression, luck.... every man's got to know his limitations, and I don't feel lucky.l
You could probably too, but I talk a good fight.
