A Turkish man gets in an argument and ends up taking on about 8 guys at once and wins

[Hardball]

Partially because you waste a lot of energy by staying tense, but also because I like to smother punches with the palms of my hands.

You mean incoming punches? Parry?

[Sagacious Lu]

You mean incoming punches? Parry?

Yes, sometimes it's easier to knock them out of the way, sometimes it's easier to smother them, but that's what I'm talking about.

[Hardball]

Yes, sometimes it's easier to knock them out of the way, sometimes it's easier to smother them, but that's what I'm talking about.

I go for the light deflection.

[bigred389]

And IMO, if bare handed, parry/deflections all work MUCH better with an open hand.

[darrianation]

Do you guys need a refresher in specialist vs. generalist again? The last time I ranted on that some folks got all out of sorts (hehe).

[DickHardman]

Do you guys need a refresher in specialist vs. generalist again? The last time I ranted on that some folks got all out of sorts (hehe).

go for it. aside from my supplemental insurance thread, we havent had any exciting discussions lately.

[gregimotis]

go for it. aside from my supplemental insurance thread, we havent had any exciting discussions lately.

My man DH is right. Lets have your rant Darrianation

[DickHardman]

My man DH is right. Lets have your rant Darrianation

remember, inflation is another reason you may need supplemental coverage. over time, inflation can substantially reduce the purchasing power of your life insurance dollar.

[Hardball]

remember, inflation is another reason you may need supplemental coverage. over time, inflation can substantially reduce the purchasing power of your life insurance dollar.

I have whole life and term...............I'm worth more dead than alive.........Plus accidental plus job coverage.

[treelizard]

I've been sitting in my seat eagerly awaiting another Darrianation rant as well.

[Tant01]

Exaggerated numbers and skill

I saw him knock down a couple of guys but not eight men? Looked like a highlight clip played over and over again.

The guy knew what he was doing but the "attackers" clearly did not.

[darrianation]

Oh alright I'll explain what I mean...

A specialist discipline is one that has limited range of operation and function. As an example karate or boxing are specialist disciplines because they are only useful at a specific range from the threat and offer limited options (limited to striking). If the threat is to far away to reach with a punch or a kick for instance boxing or karate is of little use. If the threat is to close maybe in a grappling situation boxing doesn’t offer many options.

The same goes for grappling such as in BJJ, wrestling, judo, etc; they simply are limited as to the range from the threat and do not offer the practitioner much in the way of anything outside of a specific range. In other words boxing, karate, etc, as good as they are at answering certain problems they only offer solutions within a restricted set of parameters.

You can look at almost any single discipline in this same regard even weapons based disciplines including firearms because most are limited either by range from the threat or the type of threat or both. If the threat is outside of parameters the discipline looses its robustness. A specialist discipline simply does not offer a wide range of tactical options.

The generalist is a guy who can fight with his hands, on the ground, with a knife, with a gun and he can deal with threats from the stand off range to the bad breath range and even more importantly he can transition from one range to another and from weapon to weapon safely and smoothly. He has more tactical options.

The generalist may not be as good of boxer as the guy who specifically trains for boxing, he may not be as good of a wrestler as the guy who trains only for wrestling, he may not be as skilled with a knife as the guy who spends all his time training with the knife, and he may not be as good of marksman on cardboard targets as the guy who trains day in and day out and competes in marksmanship tournaments but he is good at all those things. The generalist is the guy who can take the most potent and most practical list from the specialist disciplines and tie them smoothly together for a formidable fighting skill set that has workable solutions at all ranges from the threat including multiple and armed threats.


But still the video was fun to watch.

[darrianation]

I just want to add,

I think most of us strive to obtain some degree of skill in multiple disciplines so we can have a broader base. The controversy comes (as I alluded to earlier) when someone takes offense because he is told their particular style/system isn’t good for self-defense, say Judo for example. Judo besides being a great sport is also very good for self-defense as long as the problem being presented falls within a specific given set of parameters. The problem lays in the fact that criminal assaults do not happen in a vacuum and they all to often fall outside any one set of given parameters.

[treelizard]

Somebody pos rep this guy; I tried to but it won't let me.

[Hardball]

I hit him for at least 6 or 7 points.