when, or if you caught up in a fight?

Question

do you let emotions get the better of you, or do you try and calm yourself and think rationaly

if i end up on the ground ina fight, i watched a some videos n jiu jitsu, do you think that could help me as so many people do not know what to do on the ground, what is the techniques called when a peson has got you in half guard and you lock your feet together and what is the puropse of it as i have seen many ufc, mma fighters do it,

thank you

Answer 1

Guard is what the person on the botom does. So full guard is when someone is ontop of you between your legs. Half guard is when your in the same position but one of his legs are between yours and one is ouside. The only point of locking your legs around there back hips or legs is to prevent them from moving in to a mount position. It serves not offensive purpose.
If you watch a real JuJitsu or Judo fighter you will see when they end up on thei backs like that they always go for arm locks and chokes as it is easy to transition into them from that position especially against opponants with little ground experience, including wrestlers as they don't use subbmisions.

So I reccomend highly that you do not end up on your back with someone ontop of you. And if you do just wrestle your way out of it don't try to tie them up. You'll only take more strikes to the head.

But why would you be fighting. And is that why you are in MA to learn how to fight people?... If you want to beat something do it in your room and I recomend Jergans unsented....

13 years of Judo and 5 years of Wrestling.

Answer 2

Watching a few videos of MMA could get you hurt rather than help you. First of all, in a real fight the other person isn't going to give you time to think about what technique you are going to use. The reason you train is so that the techniques become instinctive. One thing that grapplers learn early on is not to force any technique but to take what the opponent gives them. In other words, if you try to put a guy in a triangle choke and he moves his arm or shifts out of position, you have to give up the hold and move to another technique. If you try to force the technique you are likely giving him the opportunity to get an armbar or some other reversal.

If you train hard and your techniques are instinctive, you won't have time to think or be emotional. Your opponent attacks, you counter. There is no time to think about how to react because by then it's too late.

Answer 3

No, leg catching isn't dirty when we're talking about a street fight. If a kick is delivered by a grand master who in their right mind would want to even attempt to catch it? Try catching a kick delivering over 1500lbs per square inch of power with incredible speed to boot. Don’t understand what I’m saying? Then stand behind a horse elicit a response from the horse well you get my meaning now, right? If your kick can be caught then you need to reconsider a whole lot of factors. Kicks within themselves generate more power than punches and can generally be just as fast as flying fists. Depending on your skill, and experience level along with your abilities to generate power, speed and accuracy dictates the overall outcome. Generally a good rule of thumb is to attempt to dodge and maneuver out of the way of a superb kick attack and setting up (steering) your opponent either away or into your reaction. If we’re talking from a grandmaster perspective in a violent manner kicks aren’t caught it’s just as simple and plain as that unless you’ve ever ‘duked’ it out with a grandmaster with over 30 years of extreme training then you have no idea. As far as Korean TKD is concerned the martial concept is to finish the fight with one powerful action or reaction. Catch that kick and you may have also caught yourself a broken arm, wrist, and or rib cage. Not to mention dislocated shoulder, damaged pelvis area, ruptured internal organs the list goes on. The novice fighter against the novice fighter then sure it's very possible that leg catching will occur. Let’s just say that if your leg is caught it depends on the position you’re in at the time the kick has been captured. One thing is that now your opponent is either left with hands busy holding your leg and foot and or is left with one hand and either side of the torso busy holding. You on the other hand have two free fists and one leg free. But one thing is definitely for certain, you have just under a second to both recoil and attack.

Answer 4

if you are going to fight on the bottom as many jiu jitsu practitioners do, you must stay calm. This art is all about patience. You must wait for the other fighter to make a mistake and then capitilize on that mistake. The reason the fighters use guard (wrapping thier legs around the top opponent) is so they can control the other persons body with their legs or hips and remain relatively safe from long range puches. Also from this position they have many different subs (armbar, triangle choke, uma planta to name a few.

Answer 5

When you are in a fight you have to go into an aggressive controlled state triggering your "killer instinct" anything less is like going to a gun fight with a knife... you are not equipted to handle the situation because combat is 90% mental & only 10% physical. You will be in a defensive mode if you are calm and fear will set in.

If you end up on the ground in a fight you don't want to stay on the ground for long cause you don't know if your attacker has friends coming...don't confuse street fighting with the UFC cause the UFC is a sport, they can't bite, stick fingers in the eyes or use objests around them as weapons at there disposal.

Always keep you feet up when you end up on the ground and violently kick your attackers shins (lots of painful nerves there) or kick at his knees (inner or outer) this will off balance him. Also by pushing with your feet onto your attackers knees, pushes him back (try to push him into somethingso he trips up) and gives you time to get up.

Answer 6

i think your not telling the truth in regards to doing tkd or any ma.no one who trains would ask the amount of silly questions you do.if you do tkd you must have the worst sifu ever.any one knows even after 1 or 2 classes you don't let emotions control your actions.

Answer 7

I stay as calm as possible. Sometime I got so calm that I end up on verge of falling asleep after sparring or fighting.

Answer 8

It is essential to stay calm. if you let your emotions take over you will be more vulnerable. That is part of the "Do" in Tae Kwon Do.

Answer 9

Avoid the fight if at all possible. If not then your first strike should be either the groin or the eyes.

Answer 10

In eagle claw you have to be extremely relaxed but energized at the same time. But not emotional.