Whatever makeshift weapon you resort to, strike low and hard. If the attacker is a male, hit him in the testicles. Other good spots are the shins and the kneecaps. If you're weaponless and convinced you're about to be attacked by a knife, then your options are scarce.
Most likely, you'll have to attempt to disarm the assailant with your bare hands. Don't waste time throwing punches at an attacker's head or jaw. Uyeshiba thus learns karate from Soubei Honda. Armed with newfound skills, Uyeshiba revenge fight plans go awry causing Shinbei' brother to commit suicide setting up a superbly orchestrated fight between two real brothers, Chiba vs. Chiba, with a hard-style karate vs. Though the fights are intensely riveting, it's the displays of true karate morality that is most memorable.
When Honda presents Uyeshiba with a teacher's certificate and Uyeshiba declines it because he can't afford it, Honda replies, "I don't take money when I give lessons to a man I trust. Though I can sell my skills, I can't sell my marital heart. Jiro Chiba's portrayal of Uyeshiba's martial transformation is transcendently dynamic as to how he adjusts his martial movements from one teacher and fight scene to the next.
His techniques subtly change and improve over the film's duration, which shows how Uyeshiba's aikido evolves from Japanese jujutsu to aikido's basic hand guard, fight-ready position that is modeled after the way a samurai holds his samurai sword during battle. On the surface, the movie appears to be a run of the mill, topsy turvy, grittily and cheaply made early '70s Taiwanese kung fu flick; yet it balled me over.
Imagine Led Zepplin meets Def Leppard ala Deep Purple wrapped into one group and their sole song's music is translated into the sensibility of the final fight scene. When Zhen Zheng Jiang Bin returns home, he's called a traitor, ostracized by his village and his girlfriend forsook him as his brother, a turncoat that mines red sand from a river for the Japanese, who use it to forge steel to make guns to kill Chinese.
Though the early fights resemble out-of-control windmills, they're raw and you watch them to the point of mental fracking. They're filled with unabashed desperation and overblown fantastical facial expressions associated with silent-film stars.
It's like female fans of Rod Stewart saying he's so ugly that he's cute, Jiang's fights are so sloppy that they're great. Just when you think Jiang can't get any worse the attack ante rises as Yasuaki Kurata skulks onto the screen as the nefarious nemesis from Nippon, who oozes the animalistic intensity that Sonny Chiba brought to his Street Fighter films, yet Kurata's hapkido kicks elevate the film's frays and makes Jiang look like a 20 th degree black belt in everything.
Midway through the finale, Zhen taps into his Buddha Prayer Fist, a cheesy and effective turning point in the fight as they begin battling on a fast-moving freight train with the frenzied intensity of Lee Marvin vs.
Ernest Borgnine in Hitchcock's savage barreling train skirmish in Emperor of the North The emotional sacrifice of breathless intent behind the assault asphyxiates every moment of the fight for them and us. This was a rare accomplishment in Chinese kung fu films that also featured the bewitching soundtrack of Black Magic Woman by Santana.
Overall, the fights in The Gallant are intense and well-choreographed, and Wang portrays each character and their fighting skills with dexterous prowess and violent acumen. In The Stranger , a trapped woman flees from an abusive Triad into the arms of a man Wang that's part James Bond and knight in shining armor.
He doesn't use a gun or sword instead he's armed with flaming fists and combustible kicks, and fights with tiger intensity soaked in an avalanche of bowling balls that uses up to 25 technique per shot to destroy the kingpin. The somber Stranger Attending the Tomb features Wang as a heavy-hearted prodigal son who while guarding his father's grave laments on his own sinful past, while his sister believes her brother is the last bastion of goodness in the world.
When she's threatened by a gang of grave-robbing rebels that want to loot the father's grave, with snapping dragon fists, and a pitchfork and shovel, Wang goes more berserk than Billy Jack at an OK Corral spree that is filled with wretched revenge and insane disdain.
In The Avenger , a man Wang returns home from prison after taking the rap for a treasure heist to protect two accomplices, his father-in-law, and the double-crossing Li San. While the man was away, San killed the father-in-law and heinously coveted the man's wife. With two daggers in hand, it's time to unleash a whirlwind of steel-slashing bewitchment upon San and his clan.
Never say, "Cut it out," to a former inmate with blades. However, when Ben and father use arnis to thrash two cowardly sons of the Philippines' first colonial governor Legazpi, and stop them from raping his mum, Legazpi retaliates by killing Ben's father, raping then killing his mum, and shipping Ben to Los Mananos to be executed.
Desperate to escape the storm-ravaged sinking ship, when forced to kill the captain and conquistadors blocking his way, Ben is mortally wounded. Washing up on an unchartered island he stumbles upon the old, now blind master who teaches Ben and how to make arnis sticks that can withstand sword strikes, which he needs as he prepares to battle Legazpi, his two sons and Mori, their hired deadly samurai bodyguard.
Though the muscle bound Dantes could have mimicked Lee's Enter the Dragon eskrima fights to become a Filipino Bruce Lee, he chose to using effective traditional stick fighting, applying simple disarming techniques, heaven-six double-stick maneuvers, and kali knife skills. The impressive aspect of the arnis, Spanish fencing and samurai sword action is that each fighter stuck to their respective arts. After Chief LapuLapu killed Magellan with a Filipino kampilan dagger in , natives were forbidden to carry swords.
These historical homage moments are subliminally intertwined into the film. It's a brutal yarn about two Taiwanese undercover agents Roc and Tian Hao sent to Hong Kong to stop powerful Triads and Yakuza bosses peddling opium and other vices.
It's also one of the most outstanding kung fu films I've ever seen, not because of the bizarrely effective and entertaining fight scenes, but because of two things that no other Taiwanese-made kung fu film has ever done. One, the film's most powerful scene is when Chinese boss Chen Hung-lieh proves his loyalty to the Yakuza boss by calmly breaking his own leg while chatting with him.
When the Yakuza boss offer to see him home, the Triad boss, with hypnotic calm replies, "I'll manage it alone, thank you. It's as gripping as a pair of rock-climbing shoes on flypaper.
And if that that wasn't enough, it takes a minute to realize the English dubbing is excellent. It's the beauty of shooting without sound. The Chinese actors were saying their lines in English, thus having true lip movement and then dubbing the lines later with English speakers. I did several scenes like this in Battle for the Republic of China Roc delivers his lines with a Humphrey Bogart-esque grunting lisp and glare and displays fighting savvy with the cool of Napoleon Solo.
His strait-laced posture and swanky placement of look-away kicks looks in the opposite direction a split second before making contact are alive with voodoo magic. Cheryl Harai, me. They have expanded to. I'm always looking for new subjects to write about regarding judo as well as contributions from my readers.
Please send them to gary garygoltz. While there will be many familiar faces competing at this year's World Master, there are also plenty of world class competitors making their debuts in Paulo and Joao Miyao have won every major gi title since taking the sport by storm when they were just purple belts.
The brothers rose to jiu-jitsu stardom with their insane work ethics and berimbolo back taking techniques. Their philosophies and competition results have inspired many of the new generation of jiu-jitsu athletes. Although they don't compete quite as often as they used to, look for them to be the top contenders for a Masters World title in the Master 1 light featherweight division. This will be easy enough to deal with: all you have to do is give up your things.
While it may be hard to part with some of your valuables, it will be worth your life. Phones and jewelry can be replaced, but your life and health cannot. If the person is looking to pick a fight, let them know that you have no interest in violence. If they are especially menacing or threatening, talking may not be an option, but try it anyway. If the person seems mentally unstable or under the influence of a substance, they will be far too unpredictable for you to deal with.
These are often the most dangerous kind of attackers because it is very hard to judge what they are going to do next. Try talking to them in a calm, soothing voice while backing away.
Yell for help. If you're in a public place where others may be able to help you, yell for help. Often, people on a city street or a parking lot may not realize that you're in trouble unless you make it very obvious. Yell: "Stop! While you might not be able to see anyone nearby, people may be close enough that they'll be able to tell that something is wrong.
If you hike often and are afraid of being attacked, carry a loud whistle. The sound will carry further than your voice alone. Run away if possible. The best way to defend against a knife attack is to run. Even if you know martial arts disarming tricks or you are very strong, a knife is still an unpredictable and deadly weapon. Running may seem cowardly, but it is your best chance of survival. Part 2. Make an opening to run. If you're attacked by a person with a knife, you should always try to run before fighting.
Often, however, you may seem stuck. You may be cornered or your attacker may be blocking your only exit. You'll need to disable your attacker to create an opening to run away. Strike at your attacker's throat. Going for the throat is one of the best ways to disable an attacker. With a hard strike to the throat, you'll damage the person's trachea, disrupting their breathing.
They're very likely to stop attacking you after a hard strike to the throat. If your attacker isn't close enough for you to strike at their throat, move in a bit. You'll want to be an arms-width away. Use your elbow and forearm. The harder the part of your body that you use to strike, the more effective and painful your attack will be. Your elbow is solid bone, and you'll be able to get a lot of power by striking forward with it.
Push through their throat. Using your elbow as your weapon, strike your attacker's throat. Strike as hard and as fast as you can, using the element of surprise to your advantage. If you've struck your attacker hard enough, they'll lose their ability to breathe. When they double over, run away. Kick their groin.
If your attacker is male, a kick to the groin may immediately incapacitate them. Use your knee or shin to strike them in the crotch to create an opening to run.
This technique can work with a variety of distances between you and your attacker. A shorter distance between you and the person attacking you means that a knee will be sufficient enough to make a connection. Force your knee hard into their groin. If they are an arm's length away from you, use your foot or shin. Using your shin is better, because there's more surface area to cause more damage. Extend your knee and snap your leg up into their crotch.
Once your attacker is doubled over or on the ground, run away as fast as possible. Go for your attacker's eyes. The eyes are an incredibly sensitive part of your body, and any attack focused on the eyes is sure to cause your attacker a lot of pain. You can create this lag time with some of the tactics mentioned below. Disengage - Use distance to your advantage by getting out of range.
We find in our force-on-force training that those who disengage are successful more often. If you create distance, you have more time to react when an attacker comes. If you are able to run and completely remove yourself from danger, you do not have the risk of making a mistake with your self defense techniques and suffering the consequences. If you stay in and fight, you may prevail, but you will find that the odds of you getting cut are very high.
If you disengage, then you will create some reactionary lag time during which you may be able to arm yourself or at least regain some composure enough to better handle the attack if it continues. Stun - Use a stun to disrupt your attackers ability to continue his attack and to follow your actions. A stun will help buy you time to hit your attacker again, to disengage, or to access your weapon.
A quick jab to the eyes or a slap to the face may create an opportunity for you to then follow with a more committed, but powerful strike, such as an elbow to the head or hack to the throat.
Just creating a split second of time for you to then do something else can be very useful. A stun will make it harder for your attacker to see what you are doing next. A stun may also change your attacker's role to one that is defensive, so he is reacting to you, rather than you reacting to him.
This is a crucial advantage. Get out of the way. If your attacker is coming forward, do not run backwards. He will run faster than you anyway, and you may fall down over something behind you. It will be even harder to defend yourself from the ground against a knife attack. Also, if your attacker has forward momentum in his attack, moving offline will help you gain a little time as he must change his momentum and turn towards you before continuing his attack.
Use angle - Use a change in the angle of position between you and your attacker to your advantage. Change the angle by flanking your opponent or getting behind him. In other words, if you move to his right, you get farther away from his left hand and left foot, so it takes longer for him to grab or strike you with those.
Although this delay may only last for a very brief moment, that position to the side can give you a temporary advantage and take away some of his options. You want to change the angle to limit his options, but give you more. Move and stun together - Get out of the way and stun at the same time.
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