Grab vs No Grab
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 2:57 pm
It's about time for my annual gripe of people not wanting to grab.
Martial arts of course has striking and grabbing for some sort of wrestling OR control OR to throw...blah blah blah.
For the life of me I cannot figure why there are people that insist on saying that Practicing without Grabbing or limiting the rules of Grabbing is a good thing.
We as humans have opposing thumbs...shocker we reach out and grab our opponents. We don't have to do it all the time, for example when striking. But the possibility is always there. More importantly if your training does incorporate the use of grabs an how to defend VS them, I believe you're at a disadvantage.
Unless the rare occurrence of a quick knockout happens, most people will experience some sort of Grapple sooner or later. Look at any street fight footage and other than a clean knockout...somebody is getting grabbed somewhere.
Sorry that this video link needs Facebook...here as an example is a video I've been seeing viewed around on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/stuart.verity. ... 8237724591
On various pages you see comments about the grabbing going on. Bringing this back to Tai Chi what's messed up is, in the USA there's no format similar to what's going on in this video AND it's still called Push Hands. At Least to my knowledge.
Martial arts of course has striking and grabbing for some sort of wrestling OR control OR to throw...blah blah blah.
For the life of me I cannot figure why there are people that insist on saying that Practicing without Grabbing or limiting the rules of Grabbing is a good thing.
We as humans have opposing thumbs...shocker we reach out and grab our opponents. We don't have to do it all the time, for example when striking. But the possibility is always there. More importantly if your training does incorporate the use of grabs an how to defend VS them, I believe you're at a disadvantage.
Unless the rare occurrence of a quick knockout happens, most people will experience some sort of Grapple sooner or later. Look at any street fight footage and other than a clean knockout...somebody is getting grabbed somewhere.
Sorry that this video link needs Facebook...here as an example is a video I've been seeing viewed around on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/stuart.verity. ... 8237724591
On various pages you see comments about the grabbing going on. Bringing this back to Tai Chi what's messed up is, in the USA there's no format similar to what's going on in this video AND it's still called Push Hands. At Least to my knowledge.