@@michael9300 Exactly - all martial arts have similarities because they ALL have the same sources - either India and then China or Wherever the Greeks got their systems from. Would be so good to be able to see back in time and find the true points of origin for these early arts.
@@tatumergo3931 I think it is both. There were definitely interchanges of ideas. Even one army fighting another provides an interchange of ideas for the survivors. But yes I agree that there is limitations to what humans can do due to their physiology. There is reasonably solid evidence of Indian martial artists traveling to China and teaching monks fighting which was the beginning of the Shoalin systems. Much of the current martial systems the world knows came from this origin - Karate, Kung Fu, All of Jujitsu, Muay Thai etc.
@@tatumergo3931 I am definitely old enough to know the commercial. But I do not live in the US. So the only Miller Light commercials I have seen were on those funniest commercial shows or the internet. But I was born in the early 1970's so I am guessing I am old enough.
People who criticise CrossFit - well the founder of CrossFit is also one of the biggest pioneers of stand up fighting and ground based fighting. I love the spear method and have used it to tap Bjj Blackbelts and manage distance with elite level strikers
@Drone Strike Not bullshit at all! Hate to burst your bubble but Bjj is just copying stuff that’s been around for ages! I went to a Bjj club in the U.K. and really beat everyone up from blue to black. My background is CrossFit, the Spear and Krav Maga. They compliment each other perfectly
Sometimes the SPEAR position looks like a wrestlers sprawl off a leg shot. And the wrestlers sprawl is the number 1 most used defensive move. And that is why the SPEAR system makes sense. I believe the best way to handle fear of a punch or knife attack is to do it full contact with protective gear for safety. You have to put your student in actual danger of getting knocked out or stabbed with the training knife. Only then will he feel truly confident against a street assault. I can tell you as a 31 year street cop that fear is often times never even factor. An attacked can be so fast there is no time for an emotional reaction, only a physical reaction. You just react. The anticipation of violence will create fear. The guy standing there telling you what he will do to you can create fear & it has to be managed so you don't over react or under react. But in the end skill, real skill , full contact skills will happen weather your feeling fear, anger or your caught off guard with no time for emotional reaction. But Tony Blauer's system is essential for cops. If you can't avoid the first punch all your skills have little value because you got K.O'd. Flinch training is great stuff. Great job, Tony. Check out my Scenario Drills against the fist & the blade for skill building.
There is a system where flinching is ELIMINATED and the first reaction is an appropriate defense-offense (simultaneous)..Now you meditate on that. Disadvantage of the flinch is if they fake the attack then you are screwed.
I tend to immediately follow up this sort of flinch with strikes if they have not attacked but faked. Then you have the initiative and they have initiated violence by faking. Not 100% - nothing ever is. There is always a what if for every possible move. Just some are higher percentage than others.
I don't know about a system that's based on reacting to an attack. Reacting will always put you one step behind. An in a life an death situation that could be dangerous
Around 84% of all robberies, assaults, car jackings rapes and murders are ambush in nature. You will always have to react, even if its from situational awareness.
The only other option would be to attack first. Which has serious legal issues. So unless you are going to run - which in many cases you cannot you will have to react or be the aggressor - which will make you the asshole in the eyes of the law.
Do people seriously pay this guy to learn self defense?? Jesus. You can learn shit that actually works from a fucking blue belt in jiu-jitsu and it would be 100X more useful.
Good luck finding a martial BJJ school. The majority are now 100% sports oriented. It is a nice fun art. But not that useful unless the fight goes to ground and your opponent is going to stick to grappling rules. Very few BJJ schools do any actual pressure testing against actual striking.
seems legit because i've done 2 years of combatives based on a similar system and when he said you try to do this sparring againt a thai boxer your going to get yoir ass kicked. i now do boxing and muay thai. starting wrestling soon. combatives teaches you mindset and awareness. martial arts and boxing teach you timing and diatance. and you will never learn timing and distance if you dont spar. i think you need a good combination of both combatives and martial arts
This instruction is only good for total amateurs who do not have the perseverance to train in a TRADITIONAL Martial Art believing they can learn to defend themselves attending 2 or 3 crash-courses. It is a shame that the "instructors" and self appointed "experts" (of doubtful or non-existent qualification) take full advantage of their ignorance and inability to endure proper training.
Nope - this instruction is just like any other - you need to practice these techniques thousands of times for many hundreds of hours or they are just as useless as any other technique. There are no techniques or systems that will work in real world situations without proper training time and pressure testing.
@@VestigialHead Only concession I can make to my original criticism is that this short video may not be representative of what goes on in the complete course. But as someone of 40+ years of Traditional Martial Arts training under my (black) belt I fear that this type of training is bound to do more harm than good. And I still have serious doubts about the qualifications of those "instructors". They look like ex street-brawlers to me, not exactly suitable to teach.
@@78a67h Unless you have literally put in hundreds of hours pressure testing these particular techniques you have no method of judging them useful or not. Nothing here is overly complex or fine motor skill. So you cannot use that as a criticism. I HAVE pressure tested similar techniques and they certainly do work in real fights. Not claiming they are somehow super effective or better than other possibilities - just stating outright that twitch type responses are some of the fastest and definitely reliable when properly pressure tested. I hope you realise that every single technique from any martial art is not effective until the individual has actually put in the time pressure testing each technique in live sparring. Learning through forms or set pieces or controlled drills is fine to initially learn the positions and techniques. But unless you then take that to real sparring you will not be able to use them in real combat or combat sports. The instructor here has decades of JKD experience and is not just some brawler. Not sure how much live sparring he personally has done though. But the ideas he is showing here are certainly sound.
@@VestigialHead So I was correct in my judgement. JKD I am afraid is not a recognised traditional Martial Art. It was developed by BL and evidently it worked for him because he was a top-notch athlete. BL didn't even have time to improve and enhance it because of his untimely demise. From surviving original footage (not BL choreographed fight scenes from a movie) BL students appearing to practice with him were pretty much useless (including the famous Hollywood actors) and could not even match the skills of a 2 month beginner student of a traditional Martial Arts style. All I can say then is "good luck" to the aspiring "students".
@@78a67h HAHAHA wow you are one of those typically delusional Traditionalists huh? I bet you have never pressure tested any of your technique yet you still think it will work in a real fight. Mate I have a lifetime of traditional and combat sport training. While I love traditional martial arts for their asthetics and vibe they are NOT as effective for actual fighting unless they add real full contact sparring. Same with JKD. Same with Karate, same with Tai Kwon Do, all version of Kung Fu. In fact every single martial art in existence. So claiming that a JKD instructor can not even match skills with a 2 month beginner is just absolute ignorance. It all depends on the individuals and how much pressure testing they have done. Although no 2 month beginner in any art will have even an ounce of the skill of any black belt whether or not they have pressure tested or not. But that is irrelevant. Because skill in technique is NOT what makes someone a good fighter. You can have the best side kick and the best reverse punch and the fastest block on the planet and still cannot fight for shit if you have not pressure tested your skills.
