Yes, I believe the Marine Corps recently changed its approach to hand-to-hand combat by concentrating more on grappling for just this reason. I saw a couple minutes of it about a month or so ago. Made sense looking at it. Once a guy was caught, he was at the catcher's mercy, basically.
Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis President Productivity Enhancement -----Original Message----- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 6:16 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Speling Be! "From what I've heard, there's some sort of "mixed martial arts" that is more boxing with some other things thrown in to make use of the feet, but the majority of the battle is done with fists. Is this correct? Is this the stuff I see on commercials where they fight in a cage? I don't include these guys in my argument, because it looks like they are mostly boxers anyway, and they look like serious contenders. Educate me on this, will you?" Actually, from the mixed arts bouts I've watched on t.v., most of them are won with grappling. A pure boxer had better get that knock-out punch in before the grappler can step inside of his punch, grab his shoulders, throw him over the grappler's hip to the ground, wrap up the boxers arms with his legs and then pounding the head until the guy gives up. If one has not been trained in 'ground' defense and escape, I would not want to be at the mercy of a well trained grappler. The boxing and kicking is usually used to get an opening to grapple. Of course a well timed knock-out knee to the head of somebody rushing in to grab you is a pretty effective defense. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247282 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
