The Fork

In Chess the Fork is an offensive move that attacks 2 pieces simultaneously.

In the example here the white pawn is attacking both the black knight and bishop at the same time. If the knight moves away he will take the bishop and vice versa.

In kickboxing we use the fork with the savate fouette.

On a regular SDA you would enter, chamber and then attack the head or attack the leg.
On a fork PIA you chamber to the mid level, the median.
If the opponent guards the head, attack the leg.
If he guards the leg, attack the head.

Now try combining forks into ABCs of 2, 3 or even 4.

Speed no longer becomes a factor - you can spar at 50% or even 25% speed and still land those kicks - if you use PIA forks.

The same goes for grappling newaza.

Don't just SDA armbars, leglocks and chokes, PIA them, fork them.
Again, you can move as slow as 25% on the ground and still get the tap
- if you use PIA forks.

Now try it in the other phases of sparring:
boxing
chi sao
Judo
stickfighting

it won't be long before everyone you spar says
"I just can't catch that forker!"

Ali Quarry 2

Some of Ali's best work was in his second match with Jerry Quarry.

The fight ends with a fast jab followed by a RU-H ABC.



Reminds me of the Bruce Lee Chuck Norris match in WOTD.

Ali dancing footwork

The opening round of the Williams match again, this time to showcase his movement.

the comments are well worth listening to

2 more Bruce Lee fights scenes.

These are both unarmed and against karate men.

Look out for HIA, TC push, kina def against armbar and morote gari td.

Bruce Lee fight scenes

Check out these 2 scenes from Way Of The Dragon and Fist Of Fury.

Although they are coreographed movie fights they are the best way to see Bruce's movement, technique and athleticism.

Many of the concepts of JKD can be seen here - footwork, angles, changing of levels, timing, interception, multiple opponents, weapons, defanging, etc.






Most important of all, use these clips to study his footwork and movement - then compare them to Ali - and Fred Astaire!

Was Ali The Greatest?

Frazier beats Ali
Norton beats Ali

Foreman beats Frazier
Foreman beats Frazier again
Foreman beats Norton

Ali beats Foreman

Ali beats Frazier
Ali beats Frazier again
Ali beats Norton
Ali beats Norton again

you do the math :)

Foreman - Frazier - Norton

George Foreman - power and pressure

Foreman v Frazier 1:
Foreman's power and pressure is too much for Frazier.
Frazier goes down 6 times before the round 2 TKO.




Foreman v Norton:
Norton's unorthodox style and defence holds Foreman back for a while but in round 2 Norton's defence collases under the power and pressure of Foremans attack:




Foreman v Ali:
this footage is available in an earlier post further down the blog.
It was Ali who found a style of counter attack that successfully defended Foreman's power and pressure in attack just as it did with Liston.
Untouchable, Ali was able to set up the KO on Foreman.

Foreman v Frazier 2:

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64 hexagrams as kali drills

Now if you really want to take it that far you can learn each of the 64 drills as a hexagram.

eg:
hex 1 is heaven-heaven, called Force
hex 2 is earth-earth, called Field

(yes, you could even chain them and create a drill called Force Field)

hex 3 is thunder-water, called Sprouting
hex 15 is mountain-earth called Humbling

8 trigrams as Kali drills

When we drill hi hi hi we call it Heaven 6.
Lo lo lo is earth.

It is then possible to name the rest of the drills after the trigrams

HLH - standard - would be Fire
LHL would be water
HLL would be Lake
etc

HHH - heaven
HHL - wind
HLL - lake
HLH - fire

LHH - thunder
LHL - water
LLH - mountain
LLL - earth


you will notice the deliberation of opposites:

fire and water is obvious
as is heaven and earth

wind, substance without sound vs thunder, sound without substance is more subtle

The I Ching in Kali

An STMA innovaion is to apply the Chinese I Ching to the Filipino Martial Arts.
We do this in 6 count sinawalli.

The Heaven symbol being the unbroken single line for High Heaven strike
The Earth symbol being the broken double line for the Low Earth Strike

HHH - heaven
HHL
HLL
HLH - standard

LHH
LHL - * - the fourth variation
LLH
LLL - earth


we now have 8 drills:

HHH
HHL
HLL
HLH

LHH
LHL
LLH
LLL

the next phase is to split the count in half.

In Heaven 6 you would do HHH then HHH.
What you do in "64" is mix and match.
So you do HHH then HLH
or HHH then LLL
etc
After HHH on the left there are 8 possible trips to do on the right.

Then you go to HHL and do the same, each with 8 answers.

This gives a total of 64 possible combinations, which match the 64 hexagrams in the I Ching.

Or for those with a mathematical or computing mind binary to base 8 to hex.

I ching

Debate

Learning a Martial Art is like learning a language.

The first thing you learn is words, single words, the shape of the letters, how to spell them correctly.

After a while you have gained enough words to begin talking with people.
Then you can debate with them.
Then you can win arguments.

Having a large vocabulary is not enough.
You need to take the words you learn and string them into sentences.

No single word is powerful enough to win an argument by itself.
You need the right combination of words to form the sentences you need to express your point.

These sentences give you the power to attack and counter your opponent in the debate.

Here is a clip from Pulp Fiction, the debate between Jules and Vincent regarding Foot massage.
Each opponent attacks using his words to form sentences to make an argument.
Attack and counter.

"Yes it is"
"No it's not"
"Yes it is"
"No it's not"

Neither side can get the advantage.

Then Vincent makes the point "would you give a guy a foot massage?"
This is the killer blow, the choke that locks in and Jules "taps out".

The conversation goes on a bit after this point, but Jules has already lost and Vincent just uses the rest of the "match" to elaborate his argument with no counter from Jules.

The conversation ends when Jules concedes "that's an interesting point".



Apply Vincent's game in this debate to your boxing, kb, stickfight, wrestling, grappling.

The 3 goals

There are 3 goals to each training session:

#1 – Each student must get a great workout
#2 - Each student must learn something
#3 – Each student must have fun

Fred Astaire

Probably not what you'd expect to see following a series of clips that have included Mike Tyson, Ali, Bruce Lee, the Dog Brothers and Rickson Gracie.

When Dan Inosanto was asked if there was anyone, ever, who had better footwork than Bruce Lee his answer was "Fred Astaire".

Master John Lacoste is recognised as maybe having the greatest footwork of any escrimador ever. Again, if asked if there was anyone who could match Master Lacoste's footwork combined with the way he worked his stick the answer would be "Fred Astaire".

Watch these classic Fred Astaire clipss and you will see:
bursting forward and backward,
traversing laterally,
dropping elevation,
twisting,
pivoting,
breaking rhythm
male triangles,
female triangles,
upper and lower canines
replacements

Rickson Gracie

Rickson had a fight career of 400 fights, all wisn, no losses.
Many of those fights were on the streets of Brazil, pavement fights, not cage or ring.



300 of those fights Rickson won with the sleeper choke - hadaka jime - or the Gracie name for it "The Lion Killer".



Just as Tyson won a huge majority of his boxing matches with the rear uppercut, Rickson won with his choke. Though the range, phase and technique are completely different what they are doing is the same thing. Exactly the same thing. Think about it.

Muay Thai in Thailand

It's a lot more brutal over there

Savate vs Muay Thai

2 fight clips

Taekwondo vs Kickboxing

Kickboxer in shorts
TKD in gi pants

A great example of why the KB spin backfist is so deadly when used at the right time
How, why and when!

Muay Thai Vs Boxing

For contrast here is a fight between a thai boxer and a western boxer, a hands only fighter.

Thai boxer has punches and also has
leg kix
head kix
knees
which the boxer couldn't deal with

TKD v Muay Thai

Note the thai boxer does not use HKE or any face punches

Olympic Tae Kwon Do

To clarify some of the points brought up in Goose's diary convos, here is footage of Olympic TKD matches 2008

Full contact stick fighting - the fights and the injuries

This is a clip of full contact fights at DB meets - this is all REAL.

At the end there is footage of the injuries sustained by some who participate.

It's done a bit Jack-ass style so all injuies are taken in good humour.

Stick fighting sparring armour

Clip of dojo stick sparring - single stick, full armour.

Armour - as well as glove and men helmet students are wearing elbow pads, knee pads and shin guards. Sometimes thigh protection.

Boxing - George Foreman

Big George was one of the most powerful punchers of all time - in his early career a living, walking example of First Rule, as can be seen in the first part of this clip



He was, of course, not unbeatable, as Ali proved, and later Young.

The latter part of the clip sees him talking about him finding faith and become a minister.