The Truth About the Fairbairn System of Combat: "The Mind is the Final Weapon" Reviewed
He brings up the classical, traditional Kung Fu saying about the important attributes needed to be effective, and their order of importance:
*Yi: Dan (Number one: Guts and attitude).
*Er: Li (Number two: Strength/power).
*San: Gongfu (Number three: Skill).
Which is 100% a universal truth when it comes down to real life-and-death, hand-to-hand combat/self-defense.
Jim
I bought he book. I hope that it is translated well. Have to come back and watch the last 20min of the video, I'm running out the door.
It is about the price of a pizza so if I get anything out of it - it was worth it.
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It's not only a matter of replacing closed-fist punches with open hands (as Joe Rogan has said). Properly training PALM HEEL strikes requires you to actually train them. A LOT. You will clearly understand that applying palm heel strikes requires proper positioning, proper footwork, and hip torque. You must be closer to the opponent than with an equivalent punch. If all you do is train closed-fist punches, you most likely will not be able to apply an effective palm heel strike.
In so many YouTube comments sections under videos discussing palm heel strikes, and even in some palm heel strike tutorials, it's clear that very few people actually understand or train palm heel strikes, nor have ever had real life experience actually applying them.
Palm heel strikes are extremely effective; but again, they must be properly trained and developed, until they are as natural to you as throwing a punch. And you must understand the differences in positioning and proximity to the opponent to make them work. This doesn't happen from simply watching videos, or hitting empty air.
The palm heel must be in alignment with the forearm bones for maximum effect. The palm heel should also rock forward at the wrist slightly just prior to contact (which very few people who teach palm strikes in videos ever seem to do); this adds extra "oomph" to the strike, whether it's straight into the nose, ear, temple, base of skull, or jawline; upwards / uppercut palm underneath the chin /jawline; or coming in from the side (palm heel hook), into the ear, back of ear, TMJ, jawline, or temple; or downwards, onto the nose, back of the head / base of the skull. It seems like a lot, but it's not; it's quite simple. But like many simple things, they require a considerable amount of hard work to develop them into natural and effective actions.
Many males seem more concerned about how they might look in a fight, afraid that using palm heel strikes will make them look funny and less manly. Only if you haven't trained them properly and extensively.
In self-defense, one should only be concerned with how effective something is, and shouldn't care less what it looks like. The palm strike(s) won't look stupid if the other guy goes down. However, due to ego, most guys will never train palm heel strikes, because they're not "manly-looking," or as dramatic as sports fights or in the movies. Maybe that's a good thing.
There is a sport called slap fighting, where participants take turns standing still and taking full-force slaps to the side of the face, with the flat of the palm. It's a sure path to getting CTE. But landing a strike with the heel of the palm is strictly forbidden, as is bending the elbow (as in a palm heel hook). Why is that? Because an actual palm heel hook is far more damaging than even a powerful slap that lands with the whole flat of the palm and fingers. There would be far too many broken jaws and outright KOs if palm heel hooks were allowed, and that "sport" would be done for.
In any combat sport, look for the moves that are not allowed. They are banned for a reason. Those are often the skills that are the most effective outside of the sport.
I'm mainly posting this as one example of how quickly a sudden attack can occur. Luckily, the mother was there and most likely saved both her son's and the officer's lives. The father, or whoever that other man was, did absolutely nothing to help.
Passenger Suing Uber After Video Shows Them Get Headbutted, Punched by Driver
I'm also posting this to show how sudden a physical attack can occur. NEVER allow another person to walk up into your personal space and get in your face like that. Never try to bump chests with someone to try to stand up to, or try to exert some kind of dominance to someone. The man who got KO'd was clearly willing to bump chests with the approaching driver, expecting it to be a face-to face staredown and a verbal confrontation. The driver clearly had other intentions.
I am NOT victim blaming here. I am posting this because people need to be aware that not every person you might meet will possess impulse control. Some people have flash tempers, and/or are sociopaths who will not hesitate to use physical violence, without any perceived warning or obvious setup.
Three Reasons Why Age is Just a Number in Fighting Ability
Jim
When I was around 34 to 35 years old was the last time that I seriously weight lifted, bicycle road raced and did martial arts(hapkido at Iowa State). I've probably lost more than 75% of the strength and endurance that I had at that time.
At 35, every morning just to wake up I'd do 250 to 300 situps and pushups. I could pick up 110lb dumbells and at 4 different incline angles on a bench rip off 15 reps at each angle nonstop. I was doing double sessions in weight lifting 3 days per week, single sessions 3 days per week, and resting one day per week.
On bicycle rollers at home, I used heart rate interval training, and would use the gears on my Serotta road racing bicycle to hold maximum on my heart rate, back off 10bpm for a few minutes, and then hammer it again, on and on cycling the maximum heart rate as if I were racing for 2 hours.
With my heart right now, I'd be afraid to even try to get anywhere near what I was. I am getting back into shape, but, I don't know. NO GOALS, and I am not taking any notes on progress.
I was to start escrima and arnis a month ago remotely with an instructor but I am having a hard time finding a dedicated partner. Haven't given up and I have an idea or two where I am going to get one.
I'll get there, but for me, 65 is not 35 in any way, shape or form.
I work on flexibility, warmups and taking a lot of aspirin and advil.
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