flbk8597 (August 23, 2008 at 2:56 pm)

All the punching and kicking techniques in MMA are good, as are the takedown counters, clinch breaking & escaping manoevres and escapes from ground attacks, if you fuck it up.

flbk8597 (August 23, 2008 at 2:52 pm)

I thinking is great MMA, the guys that compete in it are hard as nails, but in my own MA training, I always look at it from a self-defence perspective. There are a lot techniques in MMA sport that is great for self-defence, but it is important to determine which ones work and which ones will get you killed.

flbk8597 (August 23, 2008 at 2:48 pm)

Techniques I don't like are Muay Thai clinch and knee; in a fast and furicous street attack it is too risky, and ties you up - clinches may give you better control over an attacker, but that means by some measure they have control of you as well. Besides when there are three of his mates tanking it in at you, is clinching someone a good idea?!

flbk8597 (August 23, 2008 at 2:44 pm)

Keep the distance right; I'm not saying people should not have a chat with strangers on a night out, that's paranoia, just be cautious and alert when doing so. the binding and grappling techniques that are in fashion are so dangerous for the user. MMA contains such techniques, but if you adopt the sprawl and brawl strategy it is possible to be a very capable street fighter. Guys like Bas Rutten and Chuck Liddell (Who are just a hard bastards :D ) can take on a few guys at once no problem.

flbk8597 (August 23, 2008 at 2:21 pm)

Fairbairn-Sykes dagger has a slim stilletto design so it can stab all the way down to the axillery artery unobstructed, no surgeon in the world can save someone if they get cut there - not even if they were lying on the table inside an operating theatre at the moment the cut is made. (And if you get caught with a knife designed for killing, then you most certain would be in deep shit.)

CrimsonCrux (August 22, 2008 at 10:27 pm)

Most stabbings carried out in the street are done by the humble kitchen knife, that's why I (can't advocate the use and carrying of a bladed object as that would be illegal) like the ol' USMC pattern Ka-Bar. Very scary when the other guy's wielding stainless steel as thick as a few sheets of paper. A lot of fighters advocate the Fairbyrne-Sykes but defending the ownership of a purely combatant knife is a little hard these days.

CrimsonCrux (August 22, 2008 at 10:01 pm)

Yeah, I could in all honesty say that if someone pulled a knife out and flashed it about I would be in the right mind to either fight or flee depending on circumstance but would find it hard to do anything against a blade stabbed at the last minute. I also don't like these binding and grappling techniques marketed about a lot because they put you too close to a rogue slip-up IMO.

flbk8597 (August 22, 2008 at 9:52 pm)

Minimum safe distance for a handgun defence against a knife attacker is 21 feet, it takes on average 21 feet of distance to draw cock and aim a handgun, any closer you are looking at a CQC situation.

flbk8597 (August 22, 2008 at 9:47 pm)

Any night I am out and get approached by people for spare change, cigarettes, a light, directions, etc. I never take my eyes off them nor do I let them stand too close to me. Good thing to do, which I do second nature is when talking to someone, is to check if I can see their entire body all the way down to the feet by peripheral vision without looking down away from their face - if I cannot see their feet, then I know they are standing too close to me.

flbk8597 (August 22, 2008 at 9:39 pm)

That's what makes it scary, assassin style methods are the norm. If someone wants to kill you with a knife they aren't going to let you know they have a knife, because they want to use it successfully.