Stevethulhu
Studiously Indifferent
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You were questioning the video, which asks, what are you training for and does the style you're training in support it?Just for your first point.
Like it or not, that what street fighting looks like... 'Train hard fight easy' as the Marines would say. Most people don't want to train like that because it hurts and tests your metal. You don't have to do it for every session, but students should do it from time to time so at least they know what they are up against when the time comes.
BTW - very very easy to say 'put a joint lock' on someone who's actually trying to punch your head off or bottle you. If you're a police officer or bouncer then you have to do it as part of your job legally. But if you're a private citizen you have to use whatever works at the time.
Secondly,
Very odd... I never actually questioned people's motives for training, why would I? Not sure where you got that from... 'm not questioning the motives of why people train. If you do it as a hobby, sport or for fitness that's totally cool! But if you do it for self-defence then IMO you need to know what it entails. I'm only being sceptical about the fact that he himself said that 'traditional Okinawan Karate' works for self-defence and bloody kata of all things!
As for 'putting a joint lock on,' that's not at all what I meant. I don't have to kick the side of your knee that hard to render you unable to stand. And elbows are a hell of a lot harder than fists. I didn't see either being employed, just a lot of wild swings and splatters of blood. With some shirt grabbing.
As for military training, I think we can all agree that Royal Marines are some people you don't want to mess with. Yet when showing off their skills at this demo, they manage not to actually spill any blood. Unlike the guys in that video you linked, who were just brawling.