Greg J wrote:Hmmm...
No disrespect intended, but the only advantage to keeping the same distance that I can see would be for cooperative drilling.
Best,
Greg
Bao wrote:Agree in general about keeping track of and adjust distance. But against a knife maintaining punching distance feels a bit off.
Off balancing was a bit different... Off balance by hitting. Punching the opponent seems to be the important method here. Would rather call just call that “hitting the guy.” He will obviously be off balance if he gets hit.
zrm wrote:Bao wrote:Agree in general about keeping track of and adjust distance. But against a knife maintaining punching distance feels a bit off.
Off balancing was a bit different... Off balance by hitting. Punching the opponent seems to be the important method here. Would rather call just call that “hitting the guy.” He will obviously be off balance if he gets hit.
My understanding (I could be wrong) is that the empty hand techniques in silat are a direct extension of the knife techniques. It operates under the assumption that any empty hand could actually be holding a hidden blade or can reach a blade at any time during an encounter. So they are really drilling knife on knife and keeping that distance, rather than empty hand on knife, despite what is shown.
Striking to off balance as a set up for following strikes, rather than striking to directly harm is something that is not explored enough, imo.
middleway wrote:Maintaining arm distance with an opponent is extremely hard. I would like to understand how the concept can be translated to someone applying constant forward pressure rather than a single punch as shown.
I have seen a number of occasions in real fights where one person basically ran over the other with punches pretty much the same as seen below.
Bao wrote:Off balancing was a bit different... Off balance by hitting. Punching the opponent seems to be the important method here. Would rather call just call that “hitting the guy.” He will obviously be off balance if he gets hit.
marvin8 wrote:Bao wrote:Off balancing was a bit different... Off balance by hitting. Punching the opponent seems to be the important method here. Would rather call just call that “hitting the guy.” He will obviously be off balance if he gets hit.
The method is more to get opponent to react, read/anticipate the opponent's reactions and move in position to counter the reaction(s). Sweep opponent's leg in the opposite direction of where his upper body is moving. Stay a step ahead of opponent and constantly off balanced or at least out of position.
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