The Difference Between Knowing Techniques & Actually Getting Them to Work 

Here's my two cents. You are right in what you are saying with your message. More techniques, allow you an option to have a variety of attacks. You do need those that will work for you always, but people make mistakes and sometimes you see that opportunity to use that one fancy technique. Learning more and sparing allows you to see when the chance to use that one fancy move is! As much as I hate to use MMA as an example. Most of their fights are kicking and boxing, but something happens and boom! Everyone is like Holy $#!+ did you see that!!!! I personally prefer to have more tools in my tool box than the other guy, to give me that slight advantage, if the opportunity presents itself. Good message brotha.

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."- Bruce Lee

it´s outrageous a channel like this with only 9k. As always very useful video!

"They laugh at the law. The rich ones who buy it and twist it to their whims. The other ones, who have nothing to lose, who don't care about themselves, or other people. All the ones who think they're above the law, or outside it, or beyond it. They know all the law is good for is to keep good people in line. And they all laugh. They laugh at the law. But they don't laugh at me" - Frank Castle

Learnng many techniques I feel is good for neuroplasicity, flexibilty to adjust different situations, ability to be creative pulling from your training techniques, etc. I know the saying jack of all trades, master of none, but also there is the saying of being a one trick pony. 'Learning' many techniques is different from 'relying' on many techniques. There is another saying, ' learn everything, then forget it'. That means, have many things to pull from, and let your subconscious and intuitive brain know what and when to use them.

Someone else on here quoted the famous Bruce Lee "10,000 kicks" line. But as far as the rampant technique collection in BJJ, a lot of which is 100% necessary and a lot of which is a waste, I love the quote from Jean Jaque Machado, "You need to learn 10,000 moves so you can learn you only need one move."

Absolutely agree

I have seen some of these kata folks who can use their techniques very effectively. I do agree that too many techniques is a problem. Master the basics always. I also think that you better have some grappling skills. When you end up on the ground you better know something about ground fighting or you are toast. So, for the most part, I agree with you.

Good points overall. I often say that you have two types of techniques... your "bread and butter" and your "hail mary" techniques. That's a fairly common phrase I would imagine. You have your techniques that work for you really well in most circumstances and that you use most of the time. The rest you practice in case your usual techniques are just not working and you need something else that maybe will work better in that circumstance. I think it's also useful to know as many techniques as you can so that if someone pulls something on you, you have at least seen it before and might be able to counter it. However, it's still best to rely on a few techniques that you know well and that work well for you rather than try and master too many.

loving this, very informative and helpful.

DAM GOOD VIDEO BROTHER! You hit the nail right on the button. You should always train this way.

Great video! Just like competitive judoka who might know a whole variety of throws but run maybe 2-3 in a chain if they don't work for a match.

Been kickboxing for years, multiple styles, in self defense situations it just always comes back to punches, knees and clinch.

I like it, when you have a technique, and if that fails, you got a back-up technique. For example, you try to defeat a guy with a knives and managed to grab his forearm. 1) you try to do a hyperextension throw on him, but he immediately pulls his arm in 2) you go with his movement for a different throw, where you pass under his arm, but he keeps his arm against his torso 3) you push his arm against his torso to trap it and punch him across the chin

all absolutely true for MA, MS-- but the reason a lot of dedicated selfdef instructors (who COMPLETELY broke from MA, MS) teach: "attack first, & keep attacking, until the perp is disabled (seriously injured)", is, that such is ALL that is TECHNICALLY reqd for 'success' in applying violence (as evidenced by 99.9% of violent criminals, ie, close to ZERO skill sets)-- & the dedication, time, expense, etc, reqd for success in MA, MS, is NOT realistic for most selfdef students

Hallo Stephan, endlich mal ein Kanal der weiss wovon er spricht. Ich bin jetzt 50 Jahre alt und ich sehe das mein Umfeld um mich herum sich verändert hat, es ist nicht so das ich jetzt Angst hätte noch in der Nacht über die Straße zu gehen , aber es würde mir doch etwas mehr Selbstsicherheit geben wenn ich wüßte wie ich mich mit fünfzig Jahren auf der Straße als als newbie Verteidigen könnte. Was würdest Du mir da in meinem Alter als neu Einsteiger an SV empfehlen ? Lg. aus Hamburg Andreas B.

When someone puts you in a gulliotine always go to the side right? I always remembered "make a human plus sign" side shift to the side

Five stars !! 😊

The omoplata consistently doesn't work for me

Man, you should do a collaboration vid with Nick Drossos. Your Self Defense approach is very similar to his... "Keep it the most realistically possible without fancy shit that can get you killed in the streets"

in essence, Roger Gracie FTW.

Talky talk

I can't run I walk with a cane so I have no choice but to stick my fingers in their eyes punch to the throat, behind the ear , back of the head or walk into my opponent with my 266 lb weight with a punch to the solar plex thats' about it other than that my 2.5 years of Judo muscle memory ...it's all I have and I don't have many other choices .

Most of the training injuries in Martial Arts come from sparring.

No offense but this guy doesn't look like he can fight.