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Two things:
1) David beat Goliath in this case size did not matter.
2) I have found from my own sparring with various sized opponents that I have a harder time with smaller opponents. Why? Smaller doesnt always equal faster, but usually they are quicker than I am so I have to compensate for thier speed. Also I would like to point out that most of my best well placed strikes have been when a smaller opponent is \”disengaging\” from me. Why? Because they drop their guard for just long enough for that good whack.
Miko,
Your right timing your sprawl is very important. However if you are sprawling late than instead of sprawling you should be doing your breakfall and going into the guard (hopefully).
Its all about situation. (IMO and from wrestling experience) Sprawls are usually used as a preventative measure. Now there are times when you can break a leg capture with a sprawl, but a it should more often then not be used to keep your legs from being grabbed while at the same time placing you in a dominate position at the beginning of ground work (if it does go to the ground that is).
What may help is this
a) Make sure if your clenching, knee-striking, anything in the \”he is close enough to grab your leg\” range that you have a fore-arm or something between you to prevent the \”tackle\”
b) When you sprawl make sure you are throwing your feed back behind you and using your opponents push forward to keep you standing…if he is already in the process of grabbing your legs this will cause him to fall down with you on top in a dominant position, and the ability to escape/use your toes to get into an even better position.
c) When we work sprawl practice at my school we usually do a drill were you and your partner are given a limited amount of space (say a few square feet on the floor) and you take turns just trying to touch each others knees while the other tries to prevent it. This accomplishes two things, it works on your timing AND it confines you to a small area where you must move your feet instead of your whole body.
I hope you get better soon and are able to get back in there.
I just recent ate a cross right to the nose at our \”fight night\” with our brother school. So I learned that blocking with your nose is not a very effective technique. Gotta love battle scars hehe.
no offense meant but, sounds like you didnt pull your legs out far enough when you sprawled.
(coming from a wrestling background) I have never known these kind of injuries to happen when people sprawled during matches/practices.
A good sprawl should be shooting your legs back and falling with your upper body on top of your opponent. It SHOULD keep your legs/feet out from under the pile.
I didnt see it so I couldnt judge correctly, but it does sound like improper technique.
Again no offense meant, just objective opinion.
Similar things here. I have been through both the level 1 and the level 2 test….but I am getting ready to move and still have no \”certificate\”. I really dont want to be stuck in beginner/level 1 or 2 training classes (except for when I choose to go to work on my basics) when I move.
I would like to be able to pick up where I left off and only attend the lower level classes as a workout/refresher.
If any of that makes sense.
Personally I would use a combination of things. Get a gun and take classes at your local gun range on how to use it, get a big dog (Pitbull/Rottwieler my reccomendation), get a restraining order, get the cops involved, and get some self defense training (Krav or Not).
Sounds like this guy is one knife short of a whole kitchen set. I would avoid him as much as possible to prevent any harm to yourself.
Holy crap! Yep that would pretty much go how I would figure it would. The key with Knife attacks is recognizing the weapon. Then you add in the difficulty of defending against that threat.
Unlike some…I have been my instructors \”Demonstration Dummy\” many a times. He is small…he is short…but I would enjoy watching someone attack him. It would be like watching a chuck norris film.
I liked the final fight in his brothers office. My personal favorite..the stomp to the throat for the kill. That WAS AWESOME!
American Taekwondo Association (ATA) has a partnership with KMAA (if I am not mistaken) so alot of their schools have certified Krav instructors.
Kelly Lebrock used to be HOOOOOOT….I remember having dreams about her after I saw Weird science the first time.
Just a difference of opinion. To me pain is what lets us know we are still alive. A pulled muscle though painful is simply what it is a pulled muscle.
Your talking to a guy who played rugby for 2 years and was proud of the black and blue bruises (covering my entire shoulders), the knee gashes, the cuts on the legs from cleats, from playing the 8 man position after every game.
Your also talking to a guy who cut his finger to the bone with a carpenters knife, wrapped it up good and tight and kept working. After I got done I went to the hospital and had 6 stitches.
To me, you pull a muscle in Krav then you need to keep going. If you stop because your hurt you are training your mind that pain = stop. Then what happens if you get cut when someone attacks you with a knife on the street, or you take a bullet to a not so sensitive area when doing gun defense on the street.
Only time in Krav have I stopped to attend to an injury in class. And that time was when doing a roundkick in sparring and my opponent blocked with his elbow point to my ankle. I could barely walk let alone continue with class afterward. I went to the doc, had it checked out, got the ok to keep going. Next week I was back full time with a heavily wrapped and extremely sore ankle. Even when I dropped a trailor hitch from a fully loaded trailor on my knee I still went to class.
Im not saying train with serious injuries, I am saying that you shouldnt train yourself to stop because of a little pain like a pulled muscle.
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|But what happens if in a real life Self Defense situation you pull a back muscle. You going to lie down? Personally I think your instructor was right. Besides, pulled muscles arent really an injury IMO, and I personally just work through the pain when it happens to me.
