i get your meaning mate. and i am aware that you feel it's better to get
back up. and i too like the free form drill [that involved hands]-
i'm only re-stating your point so you don't think it's some kind of a rebuttle,
but rather an explanation for my strong'ish stance as to why my bollocks meter
registered high.
i just have a gag reflex to ground fighting because one isn't really
getting away--a point especially pertinant for women attacked.
if someone is a big oaf and--to take the assault point of focus which
is two bodies in a lock, one of which non compliant...horizontal just
seems like a place i wouldn't want to be. what's to stop him from simply
getting down on the ground with the hypothetical girl and sort of
grappling his way into escalating the assault.
don't get me wrong, a well placed kick from the ground might make
a shit load of sense--but to me only as a pause whilst i get the f&*^
back up and run/fight/whatever. and it's not as though i would be against such
training if it represents a sort of 'open window' of opportunity. i'm against that
it's the focus--as if a magic new drill to learn. a trendy new agey style called
'native american ground fighting'. i almost think that the main practitioner might
not be too bad at it--because of his athleticism, long legs, sensibility that lends to
break dancer-ish moves. i rather doubt that it can be passed along and consumed
by the masses, to include short rolly polly guys, etc...
and i get that if it were possible, it'd be terrific if one could generate a kick in an
elevator before all the possible space was eaten up, but the range. holy moses,
it's be like putting the cobra and mongoose in the box. the mongoose uses range,
in a box the cobra wins.
more of a response than you bargained for i reckon, and not directed at you, but
sometimes i only right a line or two but secretly hide an avalanche--this is just
one of those subjects.
to balance all this diatribe, the hand free form drills i saw seemed exceptional.
it's sort of weird to give up on that and start flopping around like a porpoise. this is
all way to hypothetical, i'd like to admit since this type of response has yet to happen
to me in an altercation. having said that, my first thought would be to kick legs, stomp
feet, upset the break dancing and keep stomping and kicking. but admittedly, i'm
working almost entirely off of theory.
when i was in karate, some police ju-jitsu guys would come down from new york
and show us all this stuff. i liked them and enjoyed the class. they taught me alot.
the only time i started to sort of close up was during the hermit crab ground fighting.
i just couldn't digest it.
so, in fairness, maybe it's a block. a flaw in my genetic make-up
. i only have a
handful of pressure tests from which to draw, and many more sports style fights...but
what i recall is that the one on the bottom, paid for it.
but these weren't trained people, so maybe i'm getting into straw hat territory now.
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