I really think that you are making comments about your own training Acer. So what is the point?acer wrote:Imagine dealing with all that and only training against straight punches...Suicide!!!!!!The self defence reason also fizzles away. Anyone with experience in random violence will tell you that it frequently chaotic, unpredictable, sometimes sudden, sometimes with a fear and intimidation preamble, ill-disciplined, ugly and probably most importantly, psychologically crushing and paralysis-inducing. That last one; you can have all the defences against hooks you want but if you haven’t got the tools to mentally switch on you will lose
Now despite desperate attempts by so-called Reality Based Self Defence instructors to create some kind of scenarios to induce that level of pressure it is impossible to teach to most people to really ‘switch on’, without some major mental reprogramming
Imagine if you train only against straight punches then...
There are so many articles about that and so many practitioners of internal martial arts that based on that and claim why their way of training is superior and better for the human body than the other systems (they including karate as the other systems too as we all know)Taking the low road and living in a perpetual state of hyped up anxiety and constantly firing up your adrenal glands will kill you over time,
The psychology in a real fight is very important no doubt...But really,how in Wado you learn to ''switch on''?
If you feel so restricted go and do something else. Dealing with swing punches has its own logic, know the logic and you have the situation sewn up. Of course you can still get caught out. Don’t you ever use haito uchi in sparring? We use it all the time, well I say that, but the problem with it is that it is so damn easy to spot because a straight line is the shortest distance between two points.
Was teaching furiken uchi as part of 8th kyu syllabus for about eighteen years, guess by the standards you set that must make me a complete amateur?
And for the last time, I don’t teach only defences against straight punches, if your Sensei does then please have a word with him if it annoys you so much. I don’t know how many ways I can explain this.
I reckon that when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
I really am bored with this now.
Tim