Agree! When your right hand grabs on your opponent's - left wrist, - right upper lapel, your right elbow can smash onto your opponent's face. Old saying said, "It's better to take 10 punches than to take 1 elbow". Elbow strike in general is more powerful than the fist strike. [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NkTrETmoSg&feature=youtu.be"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NkTrETmoSg&feature=youtu.be[/ame]
Hmm, wouldn't it be better to grab your opponent's right wrist with your right hand? This way you have much shorter distance between your elbow and his face. Or am I wrong?
You can do that too. The difference is if you use your right hand to grab on your opponent's - right wrist and right elbow strike on his face, you are entering through your opponent's "front door" and your right elbow has to deal with his left hand. - left wrist and right elbow strike on his face, you are entering through your opponent's "side door" and your right elbow doesn't have to deal with his right hand. This is the advantage of the "side door" entry. When your opponent has left side forward and you have right side forward, you can use his leading left arm to jam his own back right arm.
You can use your elbow to block a front toe kick or side kick. You first use one of your hands to block your opponent's leg, you then drop your other elbow straight down onto his instep (if front toe kick) or ankle (if side kick). You can also let your opponent's roundhouse kick to meet your sharp elbow joint. This is the "metal" strategy that you use metal to cut into wood. It has nothing to do with MA style but has to do with MA strategy.
A certain style may emphasize on a certain strategy such as: - boxing likes to use "fire" strategy, - TKD likes to use "wood" strategy, - Taiji likes to use "water" strategy, - Hong Ga likes to use "metal" strategy, - wrestling likes to use "earth" strategy. But it doesn't prevent you to apply boxing footwork or wrestling rooting in your own style.
No it doesn't, but doing so will likely change the mechanics, tactics or the strategy, by which I mean that whenever you add something it has a domino effect on the rest of the art as you improve how things fit with the new addition. In which case you have a different style of fighting.
Yes and no - Take a "simple" style like boxing: essentially the mechanics are identical but the variations are immense. A jab is a jab, but the way Ali does it is different that Frazier, who is different from Roy Jones Jr, who is different from Willie Pep...etc BJJ is the same - Galvao is not Garcia is not Mcvicker is not Rickson So perhaps a more accurate view is that style is the system you operate in and the strategy is how you manifest and apply that system - they are related and the crossover at sometimes is so blurred as to be almost indistinguishable, but they ARE different
Semantically I would argue that the term style would make more sense if you applied it to variations in system. So each of the fighters you mentioned presents a different style of the system boxing. But it is just semantics. I think it is the variation in mechanics (movement and power generation methods), tactics (specific set piece responses) and strategy (overarching game plan from initiation to victory), that distinguishes styles/systems.
Never done tong bei or CLF. looks as if there is some overlap in mechanics and likely the techniques that go with it. No? Yes? Maybe?
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