responses to the cowboy punch

[Daniel]

Double-tap....center/center-right of mass.....from modified Isosceles, right lead. I recommend .45 ACP, semi-automatic, regular load and Hydrashocks if you're worried about penetration threat to bystanders.

Well, that would of course be the mild response. The overkill would be smiling gently and saying, "Want a daiquiri?" Or, if it´s a Hell´s Angel, say, "Lost your Honda?"

...this thread...this thread is fun. One of those LOL threads. Good work.



D.

Sarcasm. Oh yeah, like that´ll work.

[Andy_S]

Fuck me, did McKinley really write that? I must have missed it when I suggested my "McKinley solution." Pretty close, though, eh?

[JusticeZero]

If one of my students hasn't figured out how to esquiva and respond to a slow, very high, linear, highly committed attack after a couple of months, I really need to question my credentials. Any sort of esquiva will move completely out of the target area of that attack and set up for something else.

[Chris McKinley]

JZ,

For those of us unfamiliar with the glossary of Capoeira, would you mind providing some degree of objective description of what esquiva is please?

[Darthwing Teorist]

You should always expect a flurry, otherwise you're just sparring

Truth

The sad thing is, it's hard to find people who can replicate the intensity, speed and ill-intent involved when, for instance, a 200+lb hockey player or logger cuts loose after having a few drinks. But it definitely helps to have training partners who can give you that level of emulation, and who can portray the mental/emotional component in the types of attacks one is most likely to encounter at their work, or where ever- when you actually start believing your training partner really is the enemy

This is very difficult psychologically to do properly. I like this kind of training, it is eye opening and empowering but I often dread it before, unless I was either off from training for a while or I feel particularly macho. In either cases, the testing resets my illusions. We do this not too often, as testing. We then work on one or more weak areas discovered during testing.

[JusticeZero]

JZ,

For those of us unfamiliar with the glossary of Capoeira, would you mind providing some degree of objective description of what esquiva is please?

Sorry.. very basic stuff, so I forget to explain..
Esquiva is the general term for an evasive footwork movement, usually incorporating a level drop, often taking the form of lunging the head and shoulders forward and down with the line of a circular attack or off line of a linear combined with a step into a deep stance. It is identical to, if normally exaggerated forms of, the same stepping work used in the rest of the footwork to work with off angles and the like, and most of the flow drills I do involves transitioning from esquiva to attack of various forms, with the esquiva preferably used directly to gain a more advantageous position.

[JusticeZero]

Apologies.. on review, when I was thinking back over the Regional forms, I realized that the defining characteristic was that of changing shape to conform to the non-threatened space, rather than footwork.. though the footwork is still central.

[johnrieber]

attach and pulldown on a strong diagonal, followed by a-spitting yer chaw of t'baccy into the opponent's eyes.