Having been stabbed a couple of times, man, you'n have weapons. Someone pulls a blade on me I'm taking off like a bat outta hell!
Grappling per se, or can I divide between standing and groundwork here? I'd go with groundwork>striking>standing grappling. I'm good at groundwork where I can throw my raw physical attributes around, but I SUCK SUCK SUCK at stand up grappling. Can't win a round to save my life.
now why? So my next question would be why? i'll go first. I love to grapple for numerous reasons. I love how i can be fully reliant on my since of touch to tell me whats going on. I can literally know what your going for and where just by being that close. I love the versatility of how you wish to handle the situation by grappling. Like how i can simply restrain you. or take you down and leave, or take you down apply a choke or arm lock, or take you down and ground and pound I completely control what goes on. I think this is why most places make a form of grappling the training of choice for military personal and police officials. I love how its truly as dangerous or gentle as you want it to be i can sparr or roll in tournaments and be highly aggressive with my opponent and as longs we honor the tap nobody is serious injured. though its nots it by know means what will see you out of every altercation, i love it for what it is even with its faults.
so, the why of it... well, for one, i don't really like grappling, per se, as i'm entirely unused to it and have crap balance when not moving, as well as not having any idea of how to attack with grappling techniques. teach me proper grappling and that might change. secondly, i'm 5 feet tall and 55 kilograms. i'd much rather punch you, thank you very much. third, punching people in the face is IMMENSELY satisfying :evil:
I love it too. Have you ever snapped an arm though? That's very satisfying on a whole different level :evil:
the schadenfreude is stong in this one. nope, but i always wanted to see if i could break someone's sternum.
Full on break probably not but I did see someone get a cracked sternum once and that was in sparring... with gloves on! Not pretty.
nice! that reminds me, i still need to make a small sand or rice bag to train fingertips and my second row of knuckles.
I'm pretty decent at some aspects of grappling (qinna and a bit of Aikido and Judo), but I much prefer striking.
Just get a cheap plastic bucket or waste paper bin and fill it with rice - that's what mine is. Mine has a lid so if I kick it over the rice doesn't go everywhere!
Grapple - standing and ground. It's where I have the biggest advantage. It feels like there are so many more things to do from grappling than strking - but that may be my in experience from striking talking.