UFC 68 Tim Sylvia vs Randy Couture Video

[TURBO2GO]

Yep, he pokes people in the eyes. Kempo is all about eye pokes :wink:

yeah on two occasions I have put kenpo teachers to sleep when they were going for my eyes to show me "real self defense not that UFC stuff". I have even had an instructor bite me. I am not kidding.

Oh and one one occasion, I had an arm bar on a new student that came from small circle Japanese Jiujitsu and instead of defending like I showed him, he was pressing his thumb into my calf... I stopped and said "what are you doing?!!" and he said "its a pressure point". So I put the arm bar on and made him think about that strategy while he was tapping. It was quite funny. I didn't see him try the pressure points anymore.

 

[TURBO2GO]

Haha thanks a lot for the advice. I'm learning it as a form of self-defense just so I would feel more confident should a situation arise. I'm really not confrontational by nature, and I'll always avoid violence unless it's absolutely necessary to defend myself or family/friends.

The beauty of ground fighting is that few people know ANYTHING about it but almost anyone can throw a punch. If you are against a much bigger guy, who is usually the one that will try to start something, even a punch or two can do a lot of damage. I would avoid duking it out with anyone if can be. Most people will instictively throw a right hook/haymaker as they are righties. If you practice ducking under and taking the back and going to a rear naked choke from there, you are in good shape.

A lot of my friends watch MMA and think they can fight because they have seen it on TV. They try this weak guard when on the ground, I pass in 2 seconds. I suggest at the very least you learn the positions of guard, side control and mount. A non-trained fighter will give that to you. That puts you in a great position. BJJ is very safe because you can put someone to sleep or disable their joints but not really hurt them unless you want to. "Soft art" is the original definition of jiujitsu. But don't waste time on the Japanese style too much.

 

[TurboLexus]

TURBO, great advice man, your experience is apparent. If I had to recommend one discipline for the 'real world' it would be boxing. My old man started sparring with me at a very young age, you wouldn't believe how small my first pair of gloves was. I'm only 5'10" 180 lbs, but striking has served me well. I grew up in a crappy neighborhood and was a skinny white kid, had to deal with some tough situations. I do not advocate violence except as a last resort, but if I didn't know how to defend myself I would've taken some bad beatings. Still caught a couple :smile: .
BTW, i've never had a guy try to poke my eye or even choke me out in a fight, but I have found that a quickly/tightly applied Guillotine is real effective at slowing someone's momentum, especially if they don't even know enough to turn the chin into the chest.

 

[TURBO2GO]

I have received several PM's so I will post this:

Boxing is great I agree. Problem with boxing is that it ends with a clinch. You then wait for the ref to seperate you. No ref in a real fight. The clinch is just where Muaythai starts. But the tactics of boxing are honed to a very high level now and as far as pure punching, nothing is better.

To those guys that wonder about arts like Japanese Karate, Chinese Kung Fu, or Korean Tae Kwon Do, or even Judo, I will say this. These arts are very watered down because they became sport. They originaly used to be very effective but in competition, which is based on tests, belts, points, and other tactics for an academy to charge a student money, they lost their effectiveness. Because of sport slowly over the years the most dangerous moves were filtered out so as to not hurt another student. Today's student is tomorrow's teacher... and so he grows up not even knowing the essence of the art. Over a period of a hundred years an art goes from devestating to nothing but a facade. BJJ and Muaythai have managed to keep their purity, in part because of fighting in Thailand, and in Brazil mainly because of the Gracie family and their continued refining of the Japanese style by actual fights.