Whether it works or not, I find watching that style of fighitng to be really boring.
If they made a video game like Tekken etc. based on grappling it would be very..very boring. I thought I would see massive Spin kicks, flips and roundhouses....hands flying in a blur like Mortal Kombat etc. Instead what I see in most of these high level Ultimate Fighting Championships is some quick grapples... suddenly someone is on the floor and then the fight is over in a minute or less. :( Kickboxing is more entertaining as a result,when compared to these 'no holds barred' fights. On Nov 29, 2007 11:55 PM, Adam Churvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247285 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
