johnwang wrote:oragami_itto wrote:The goals of my training, in priority order:
1. Avoid conflict
2. Escape conflict
3. End conflict.
Self defense is more than just to defend yourself. Self-defense includes to protect your family members, friends, people on the street, help the weaker to fight against the stronger, ...
When someone attacks your wife, you can't avoid, escape, ...
edededed wrote:When the hands are hooked, the wrist seems to be quite tough and hard, good for striking! Some people toughen it more as well (by hitting things, etc.).
In bagua, Ma Gui was famous for wrist strikes (腕打), too; some bagua schools still teach them (training methods, techniques). But some bagua schools don't use them at all.
If you strike back without any changing of your hand shape (for speed), you will hit with the back of your hook.
johnwang wrote:This clip shows some application of 刁手 (hooking hand). I still don't think it has any knock down power.
Sometime I just find out that I may have spent so much valuable training time on someone that's not very useful. If I can relive my life again, I will not waste my time on things like this.
https://v.qq.com/x/page/k0531ia7m7u.html?
everything wrote:most cold-blooded murders and "self defense" killings aren't done by trained martial arts teachers or hobbyists or pros, although the police killing minorities out of "self defense" are obviously trained in some way.
oragami_itto wrote: You can't just go knocking people out or killing them willy nilly every time you have a conflict.
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