for everyone who has ever done martial arts?

Question

when some one is ounching you do all your blocks work and can you use grappaling in a fight? will itwork

Answer 1

Blocks are used for a variety of reasons. You can use a block to damage another person, to give you a second to move to your next move etc. You should not continue to block, wrapping someone up, shooting down, trapping, striking, countering, body repositioning are better ideas than continuing to block unless you are playing around.
Does grappling work? YES.
Keep in mind that in a fight you will get hit, not all of your blocks will work, not all of your strikes and/or grapples will be crisp and perfect. That is the way most fights go. You train to give yourself the best opportunities and many of them.
Best of luck.

Answer 2

I'm going to repeat something a fellow Aikidoist said here (and he was quoting a movie):

"Best block no be there."

Try this: have a friend swing a baseball bat at you. Try blocking it. Let me know just how much it hurt (and how much the hospital bill is). If you actually do this, well, there's just nothing nice to say about it.

The best block, really, is no need to block. No one trying to hit you. That being said:

Enter, evade and throw. Then run away. Throwing is optional.

Aikido teaches this. It's not the only art to do so. That's not a coincidence.

Answer 3

Street fight?
Most street fighters use their arms like clubs and just come at you swinging. They expect to get hit so it's mostly charge while swinging wildly. This is actually effective against another street fighter and may even catch a martial artist with MA sparring experience off guard.

Your best defense:
Shuffle back to create space. Block if you have to and look for an opening (there will be MANY). Then strike or shoot for a takedown.

Here's a video of this in action:

Answer 4

Blocking eh? Ever try blocking a knife or any weapon? I did and it landed me in the hospital. I was lucky my friends were with me in that bar and took the freak who attacked me to the ground and kept him there until the cops came.

So, training in karate didn't do me any favors in that bar that night. I now train in kali. It teaches you to evade your opponents punches and weapons by angling away or by redirecting the incoming threat and then crippling them all in one blink of an eye.

Yes, grappling will work but that is usually step three. In order to control the opponent by means of grappling you must first neutralize the weapon with the strategies listed above.

Remember, 9 out of 10 attacks are made with weapons. Do you think defending yourself from a knife could ever reasonably involve blocking?

Answer 5

"best block no be there."

Just to explain
I've practiced aikido for years and In my experience the verry best way to counter an attack is simply to get out of its way. And handle your opponent from a safe angle. The grapling techniques taught in Aikido do work in a fight although some are pretty elaborate and unpractical. When in a fight the simple techniques work best

Answer 6

Yes, that's what the blocking techniques were developed for, the grapalling techniques were developed for close quarters fighting, but you won't be able to defend against every attack,

eventually you're goin' to take a hit, because nobody's untouchable, ther is always a chance of getting hit, but your blocking techniques will lessen their ability to hit you, and allow you to counter attack them in return.

bringing the opponent closer for more devastating injuries. and allowing your shorter distance attacks like elbows and knees to be more effective.

if you continue training, you'll learn how to use these techniques to a better degree. you just gotta keep training and you'll find out, you're only a white belt right now, but you'll learn how to learn to use these techniques by continuous and daily practice.

Answer 7

You ask a lot of questions Ash, but that is cool most of them are always good and very geniune and honest questions. You also don't ask the same things over and over about styles etc.

To be an effective grappler you have to use effective blocking, there is a time where you have to close that distance and you don't want to take any damage doing so.

As mentioned above, the most effective blocking isn't where you are moving your arms away from you head ala karate/tkd blocks. You know where you try to actively block every shot with an attacking type of block. (Think Daniel San wash on, wash off). The most effective blocks are keeping your hands close to your head boxing style, moving and changing your levels.

You keep your head moving, arms in tight, and you can duck/parry punches and come in for any type of grappling you want. You can clinch, go for a shot, (single, double leg take down things) all kinds of things.

I get swung on A LOT. It is pretty much policy that we don't go around punching guys back, there are a lot of reasons for that which I won't go into. But you get used to it. A guy swings on me, I block, come in quick, spin him around and choke him out.

I get him outside, same thing occurs, except I might throw him and pin him with a dominate position until the cops arrive. I am usually in a sitaution where I have to deal with a guy for a period of time, it takes a while for the cops to come to our place, and I can't escape a situation since I work there. Though I may throw the guy out, and then go back inside and not deal with him.

But I find that in a fight grappling is far more effective than anything else. It is a great equalizer and it doesn't matter how drunk someone is, or if they are cranked up on drugs, you choke someone, they go out. You can play around and box with someone, but you face getting caught and taking some damage.

Best thing to me is to cover up, close the distance and get immediate control of a guy via grappling.

Wonder about the effectiveness of that? Think about it, every single law enforcement officer in the world does the very same thing, when faced with dealing with a hand to hand situation. (or they Tazer..which is nice hehe)

Also in early UFC's Royce Gracie cleaned house using that very same principle against practitioners of striking traditional martial arts.

I use grappling way more than I use striking, the same goes with Police officers. It is probably one of the most effective means of neutralizing a situation, because you cut the blood supply off to the brain, and you go out. No matter how tough, how high, or how crazy you are.

So since my arms are tight to my head, and most people punch with wide looping punches, they pretty much just hit my elbows, and then I hit them with the earth. I use an entire planet and it's gravity to hit my opponents, instead of using my fists, I use mother Earth.

So yes in my opinion my blocks (Muay Thai, Boxing, Kickboxing) work, and I use grappling almost exclusively in a fight.

Answer 8

You can use standing grappling also. A soft block can turn into a joint lock very easily, this in turn can make them open up a preferred target area. For example a wrist lock usually makes the person stick the chin out.
I caution people against grappling without proper training, you can put your self in a hazardous situation quite easily without proper technique and training.

Answer 9

No technique works 100% of the time. People are human and make mistakes. There is no such thing as perfection.

Grappling works great, provided you can get in close enough to use it, and you don't mind getting hit while you do. The same applies, there is no 100% effective technique.

Answer 10

In my experience, the best "blocks" are to have your hands up like in boxing. They will hit your forearms instead. Then you can counter punch. If you try to block, you may be to slow to counter strike. If you know how to grapple well, it may work.