Jeet Kune Do

Wing Chun
Boxing
(fencing concept)
Savate

Kali
Muay Thai
Jujutsu
Wrestling

Absorb what is useful
Discard what is useless
Add what is specifically your own

The truth is outside all fixed patterns

Using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation

It's just a name, don't fuss over it

Bruce Lee fight scenes

These are movie fights but the skills are real.

Bruce's use of savate, boxing and Wing Chun is showcased here.

fight against Chuck Norris from Way Of The Dragon




v O Hara in Enter The Dragon

Savate clips

savate training session




savate fight footage

Muay Thai clips

Thai KO:


Thai match clips:

Ali and middleweights

When comparing fighters you cannot compare Ali to any other heavyweight.
He is unique. No other fighter in that weight class could move the way he did or punch so fast. We need to compare Ali to middleweights and the other lighter divisions to find another similar fighter.

The first obvious one is Sugar Ray Robinson



The second, more modern example is Roy Jones Jr



Both these fighters had style and class and, like Ali, were real showmen.
RJJ used to taunt his opponents, dominating mentally as well as physically.
And in many ways RJJ like is a lighter Tyson.

Ali savate

Watch the posted vids of Ali's style:

footwork
upper body evasion
lightning fast jab
fast punches and quick combinations
long looping left hook

Now look at savate:

long fast fouette round kicks
kicks that land high and low, all levels with stinging precison
fast kick combinations

If Ali was a kickboxer he would be a savateur.

After applying Ali's counter-attack style in the boxing phase on pads and in sparring, apply his style to your savate phase.

Rumble, young tiger, rumble.

Tyson Thai boxing

Watch the posted vids of Tyson's style:

power and forward pressure
close range punches to head and body
close range combinations

Now look at Muay Thai:

powerful punches
knees to body both long and clinch
lo powerful hacking leg kicks

If Tyson was a kickboxer he would be a Thai boxer.

After applying Tyson's attack style in the boxing phase on pads and in sparring, apply his style to your Thai phase.

Muhammad Ali vs Cleveland Williams

One of Ali's greatest fights. We see here his speed, his fast jab, his footwork, and his upper body evasiveness. But most of all we see, for the first time, his explosive punching power, with both hands.

In round 1 he is all evasive and speedy.

In round 2 he is explosive, putting Williams down 3 times.

In round 3 Ali wins by TKO.

This is Ali's 7th title defence since he won the belt from Liston almost 3 years befoe.

Ali is in his prime and absolute best here, in November 1966 aged 24



Ali had two more successful title defences before being stripped of the belt in April 1967.

Boxing

This is Western boxing, hands only fighting.

The main tools are:
Jab, Cross, Hook, Uppercut

The target is the head, the purpose is the knockout.

With lead and rear hooks and uppercuts, this generates 6 basic punches. You learn and practice these on the pads, then try them out in sparring.

Drilling is progressive:

Basic punches - the "big 6"
Defences
Attack combinations
Defensive combinations
Sparring



FWA - Five ways of attack

SDA - Lo jab and cross
ABD - Attack by drawing - draw lo punch and counter hi
PDA - Progressive Indirect Attack - fake lo hit hi
ABC - Attack by combination - app of focus pad drills

HIA - hand immobilisation attack - trapping in boxing


FWD - 5 ways of defence

parry
evade - slip, roll, duck, bob and weave, snapback
block (constantine)

distance - step back and return

interception

Muay Thai - the 3 Thai "kata"

Thai drills - 3 "Thai Kata"

Obviously Thai drills start on the Thai pads.

We have a couple of long ABCs, which are like Japanese budo kata, which means something different from Okinawan and karate meaning of kata.

Along with the Krabi drill, these are important "kata" for the learning of Muay Thai

All members need to know these 3 "Thai kata"

Punch kata:
Jab, cross, Hook, Elbow, Knee, double dte

henka:
Jab, cross, elbow, elbow, Knee, double dte

Kick kata:
Push kick, round kick, knee, clinch 2 knees, 2 elbows, kradot knee

Krabi:
5 step drill

4 endings:
strike with round kick,
kradot strike,
power strike,
double strike and push kick

Muay Thai - Thai boxing

With KB we have taken our drilling mainly from karate and boxing.

Thai boxing takes training methods from Muay Thai, a different MA.

This involves the use of the knee, and training on the Thai pads.


Thai CRA

In the kb we play the Thai knee phase.

In Thai, there is knee sparring where you tie up and fight with just knees, which is an important phase of Thai and a great skill in itself. If the opponent goes to the floor in knee spar, in Thai you break.

In MMA, VT or Street, you would follow in with a strike - a drop knee or kick.

The Thai "throw" is called a "thum" and is a very effective throw for VT or the street.


Thai pad ABCs

Jab, Cross
Double kao
Double dte
J,C,H, Dte, kao
J, C, salute, H, Kao


J, C, dte
C, sok
H, sok
c, kao
tiip, C, H, C


We drill the Thai dte to the leg then arm - "thigh and bi".
We drill the tiip to the body
We drill the "rainbow" kick which sits between.

We drill these in lines, on the pads, then bring out in sparring.

For knees we use the gum sao style block, drill pads, then in sparring court the "set up" clinch and use knees.

After a while the use of knees in sparring become automatic.

The Power Kick

I have demonstrated this in class a few times, so I'm going to break it down for easy reference.

This is a description of the plyometric components of the round kick.

1. The step

2. The hip

3. The thigh

4. The calf

Practice each of these 4 components as show, then add them together for aggregate power. Develop on pads and maybe bag.

In combat we are looking to land this kick to the outside of the attacker's thigh to drop him to the floor and immobilise him.

Stick fighting

This involves the skills built in the stick drills from Kali, Eskrima, Silat, and Krabi Krabong.

Like Kendo, we spar in armour.

Strikes are made to:

men - helmet
Do - body, though we also include the arms in stick
kote - wrists

Sune - we also strike to shins and knee - this is not done in standard kendo sparring, but it is done with naginata

We then remove the body armour.

We then remove the gloves

We then spar with just a fencing mask to protect the teeth and eyes (and nose for those of you who haven't had a break yet)

We also spar nunchaku - with the foam chucks, though in armour we can use rattan chux.

FMA - Filipino Martial Arts

At STMA we tap the FMA for the core of our wepons training. These systems have unarmed combat that is drawn directly from the weapons training, which makes them unique in MA.

Kali-Eskrima

The core art. Kali is a blade art while Eskrima is a stick art. As we train with stix, there is not much obvious difference between Kali and Eskrima at the lower levels.

K-E is seperated into sub-systems.

Sinawalli - fighting with two sticks. This is done at the long or largo range.

Serrada - close range single stick art that moves through the ranges of largo, medio and corto.

Largo Mano - long range stick. Often done with the longer 3 foot stick. Builds to longer weapons including sword, staff and spear.

Kadena de mano - knife and hand art - drills include knife to knife, knife to hand, and hand to hand. The hand to hand combat develops from the knife drilling.

Pekiti tersia
One of the Filipino knife systems I trained in extensively which has some great drills relative to kadena de mano and knife training and defence.


Unarmed combat systems:

Panatukan
Filipino boxing, developed from kadena de mano. Has much more use of trapping and destruction than Western boxing. Fills the ground between boxing and Wing Chun. If you are having trouble making your traps work in boxing phase, panatukan has the answers. The knife defence training makes the boxing much more sensitive and effective.

Sikaran
Filipino kickboxing, similar to Muay Thai but much more evasive and sneaky.

Pananjakman
The art of low line kicking, similar to kempo, atemijutsu or koshijutsu. A training phase, becomes an art in it's own right at a higher level.


I don't want to overload you by thinking there are lots of different arts to learn. Quite the opposite - we may well only use 10% of an art like panatukan at a certain level, but we will use it to bridge the gap between boxing and Wing chun and knife to empty hand.

At the higher levels you can start to learn the differences between these different systems.

The Straight Blast

The Straight Blast.
Jik Chun Choy.

Taken from Wing Chun, after the entry phase, whether a WC entry, slip and jab from boxing, or Kali nerve destruction, we launch a chain of straight punches to the opponent's centreline as we drive forwards.

Power and pressure.

According to Bruce Lee, this technique turns "martial artists" into pedestrians.

From belt up we are doing Wing Chun.
From the belt down we are using the driving footwork of Krabi - or thinking outside the MA box, we are doing the 100m sprint from athletics track and field.

Longest weapon to closest target

This is a Combat Concept.

It means what it says:

Use your low lead kick to hit the opponent's leg as he steps into range.

Use your lead jab to his face, or eye jab to the eye as he moves in.

Best seen by in savate's bas kicks and boxing's jab.

Ali victories

Ali greatest victories were against Liston and Foreman.
Both men were undefeated, had never been knocked down, and were feared for their close range power.

Ali v Liston:
When the young Clay challenged Liston for the title, nobody gave him a chance.
Ali beat him and took the title.
In the re-match, Ali put Liston down for the first time in his career.

See footage here:
http://whitetigermartialarts.blogspot.com/2011/01/ali-v-liston.html


Ali v Foreman:
In the case of Foreman, he had won 2nd round KOs against both Frazier and Norton.
Both Frazier and Norton had previously gone the distance with Ali and beaten him.
Nobody, on paper, gave Ali a chance against Big George.
Ali completely outboxed Foreman and took his title at The Rumble In The Jungle.

See Ali-Foreman footage here:
http://whitetigermartialarts.blogspot.com/2011/01/ali-ko-foreman-rumble-in-jungle.html

Ali v Tyson:
A match we never got to see but would all probably have liked to.
Having seen the way Ali took care of Liston and Foreman how do you think he would have handled Tyson?

Marco Ruas

Marco Ruas - "The King of the Streets".

One of the first Vale Tudo fighters and one of the best of all time.
First UFC appearence in UFC 7, which he won.
The first fighter to properly cross train Thai boxing and striking styles with the grappling styles and founded what is today called "MMA"

Marco highlight reel:




Marco v Pat Smith.
Marco gets him with the heel hook just as Shamrock did

The Mount

In UFC 1 Royce "fought" a boxer.
The boxer's strategy was to wear a glove on his jabbing hand so he didn't hurt his bare fist with all the jabs he would land.
Royce closes the gap and gets the boxer to the mat and then mounts.
The boxer taps before Royce applies a lock or choke.



If you achieve the Mount and can stay there the man on the bottom is beaten even before you make him submit.

Punching in KB

Those who have studied this K1 KO montage clip will have noticed the high porportions of boxing used and the KOs done with a punch

http://whitetigermartialarts.blogspot.com/2010/12/kickboxing-kos.html

When a KO kick happens it is usually with a Thai round kick, either the classic dte or "rainbow" version, with the "knuckle" of the shin.

There are a couple of occasions where the foot is used for a KO.

We also see Thai leg kicks and the occasional knee.

Something to think about.

Ali KO Foreman The Rumble In The Jungle

Ali KO Foreman round 8
The Rumble In The Jungle


The KO in slo-mo



The Rumble In The Jungle:








and finally the fight as depicted in the Will Smith film.
Again, a bit of an indulgence but it so well done it's worth watching for a different perspective

Ali v Frazier

With 3 epic fights between Ali and Frazier we'll load the footage over time to allow students to take it in progressively.

Ali vs. Frazier I 1971 - The Fight Of The Century (part1)

also known as "Smokin Joe's Finest Hour"

Frazier bobs and weaves to avoid Ali's fast jab and powerful hook while going for Ali's body with his own hooks.




Joe Frazier -vs- Muhammad Ali II 1/28/74 (abc) part 1

The Rematch

Ai v Norton

Ali fought Norton 3 times.
Norton's unorthodox style gave Ali more problems than perhapa anybody in their first match when Noro beat him. By the second match Ali was dominant.

Fight footage is available broken into several sections over the three matches, and will be uploaded soon.

Muhammad ALI -VS- Ken Norton II 9/10/73 part 1

Ali v Liston

Ali KOs Liston with what became known as the "phantom punch" in their rematch.


Here is HD slow mo we can see what really happened:



Ali-Liston 1 1964


pt 2


pt 3


pt 4
as Liston didn't come out for round 7 there actually isn't a part 4

Here is the Ali-Liston first fight as depicted in the Will Smith film.
This is a bit of an indulgence as it isn't "real", but it's so well done and gives an interesting perspective, so we'll add it here - and it's a bit of fun


{more fight footage to follow}

Ali

The Greatest.

Ali was only put down 3 times in his prime - each time by a left hook:
Henry Cooper
Joe Frazier
Ken Norton
(the Wepner fight was Ali slipping, Wepner never put him down)

Ali wins title from Liston
beat him in rematch
Ali 2 - Liston 0

Ali has title taken away from him.

Ali lost his title match against champion Frazier at "The Fight Of The Century"
Frazier lost to Foreman before Ali could rematch - 2nd round KO
Ali went ahead with Frazier match and beat him

Ali loses to Norton
Norton breaks Ali's jaw in the process
Ali has rematch - wins

Norton challenges Foreman - Norton KO'd in second round

Ali fights Foreman and wins title at "The Rumble In The Jungle"
Ali 1 - Foreman 0

Ali has third match with Frazier, wins again - "The Thriller in Manila"
Ali 2 - Frazier 1

Ali Norton 3 - Ali wins
Ali 2 - Norton 1

Ali loses title to Leon Spinks
Rematch - Ali wins title back
Ali has won the title 3 times
Ali retires

In 1980 Ali comes out of retirement to challenge champion Larry Holmes, but loses.

1981 Ali's last fight is against Trevor Berbick.

Ali's record was 56 wins (37 KO), 5 losses, 0 draws.

Most people agree Ali never should have lost to Spinks.
He should never have come out of retirement against Holmes and Berbick.
Had this been the case, Ali would have logged only 2 losses - Norton and Frazier.
His wins would have been 56 after Spinks, 57 if he had still done the rematch.

Brutal UFC KO

Crucifix and multiple elbow

UFC Remco Judo UFC2

Remco Pardoel, huge Judo man fights Orlando Weit, Thai World Champion UFC2.
Clinch happens early with no Thai kicks or punches thrown and goes to the floor with no knees.
Remco performs a variation of makikomi.
On the ground he fails to get the kesa gatame or a lock and finishes with elbow strikes. Interestingly he abandons all Judo newaza and finishes the Thai fighter with a Thai move.




Royce vs Remco.
Royce gets the td, takes the back, gets the choke.
Remcos size, strength and huge weight advantage count for nothing against Royce's superior skill and technique.

Royce Gracie - Ken Shamrock UFC1

A now classic match.
Similar to the Shamrock-Smith match, Ken ends up in Royce's Guard and goes for the leglock. Royce however rides up, and manages not to get in Shamrock's own guard.
As Shamrock turns to kneel, Royce keeps his hook in and gains a choke.

Royce Gracie v Smith UFC2

The Final of UFC 2 sees Royce defeat Pat Smith by a ground n pound

Shamrock v Smith UFC1

Smith establishes Guard but Shamrock breaks it and goes for the achilles before progressing to the ankle lock to get the submission.

Pat Smith v Scott Morris UFC 2

An early example of Mount and ground n pound

UFC

The early UFCs were based on the Vale Tudo matches in Brazil where "anything goes" and "the rules are there are no rules".

Rorion Gracie's original vision was an open contest where any fighter from any background could face any other fighter with no time limit, no weight category, no protection, no rules.

What is now called MMA today, as can be seen in modern UFC among other events, had it's origins in this brutal Vale Tudo.

Have a look at some of the early UFC matches that have a great significance on the way everyone trains and fights today.