Re: Is it easier to take a Judo guy down than a boxer down?
Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 5:00 pm
Try it again!
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kenneth fish wrote:I would agree about the mindset - its not something that most boxers think about - they are training to fight other boxers, not wrestlers.
On another note, one of my students was teaching at the FBI. He was harassed by another instructor, a BJJ guy. My student got tired of it and basically said "ok, lets see what you've got". The BJJ guy tried numerous attacks, trying to bring my student down. It ended with my student cold cocking the guy (who seemed to think that it was unfair....)
WuGuy wrote:A good hand strike is fast, much faster than a takedown. And most takedowns require that you get your chin in range, and no matter how well practiced your takedown, all it takes is a relatively small hook to the chin to shake your brain enough to send you to dreamland. Boxers train to hit whatever part of their opponent gets in range, but how many grapplers practice their takedowns against someone who's skillfully trying to knock them out the instant their chin is in range?
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Russell
johnwang wrote:If in the next 20 Gung Li fight that nobody can take him down then what conclusion can we draw from it? Does that mean a guy with strong rooting can do without ground fight experience?
johnwang wrote:If in the next 20 Gung Li fight that nobody can take him down then what conclusion can we draw from it? Does that mean a guy with strong rooting can do without ground fight experience?