0:22 "the truth is somewhere in the middle" Ah yes, of course, it is. It wouldn't be a Hard2Hurt video if the answer wasn't "no, except for when it's yes".
I'm a sanda fighter and kung fu practictioner, I've always uses some traditional techniques in the exact same way you've explained them and they've always worked. People should stop judging martial arts they didn't even studied, so great content man!
I’ve had similar findings when sparring, was surprised at how many wing chun traps I was able to pull off from training it, but unless you counterattack on the first bridge you make and are very aggressive with it, you will get herded around and of course picked apart, most wing chun people are obsessed with looking perfect and also don’t train with enough power, which destroys them. Ironic since the entire system is built for counters but no one uses them well, I also played around with the bong sao as a shell too, great stance similar to the philly shell. Also thank you for explaining the difference between gloves and bare knuckle, you can’t believe the hordes of people who tell me if you can’t do it with boxing gloves you can’t do it bare knuckle, and wing chun is all about wrist mobility, wild.
@@philiphartshorn facts bro. It hurts to see people trash wing chun so much when it actually has some good techniques in it. Alot of the time people who learn wing chun just want to set up the perfect fight like u see in movies but pretty sure traditionally it would be used to find easier counters off parties.
@@maxzhao8331 Have you ever done a pushup in a fight? The argument doesn't work. The forms are the baseline dance to build the technique and train your body. Bruce Lee first learned wing chun and it was evident anytime you saw him fight. I doubt anyone here would say he was trash without trolling of course.
I may not be a “fighter” but I did start learning wing chun and started using its theoretical applications with some Muay Thai practical methods and when I goof around and spar with my friends I find myself doing loads better. But they are even more untrained then I am lol
It pisses me off when people say there's only one way to do things. Fighting is like Chess. Sure you don't want to use your queen to take a pawn but sometimes its a valid strategy.
My understanding is that capturing a hanging pawn with your queen can be okay. Just don't leave your queen hanging afterwards! That can ruin your whole day. And don't capture a protected pawn with your queen or that'll ruin your whole entire week.
@@rabiesbiter5681 he means a queen sacrifice situation, where you sac the queen for the pawn and gain an advantage, probably be for checkmate, or some kind of overwhelming advantage
I think I get the analogy you’re trying to make, but I don’t think any chess match with players of a certain level of skill you’d see a queen take a pawn... the situations you would use this “move” would be to force specific movements from your opponents king, and probably to win.. in actual fighting, and I’m not the most personally experienced but from my own experiences and watching fights since the 90s, you can be decent and improve your skills at what your opponents might do; but there are no “guarantees”. You can’t say 100% if I do ‘x’ he’s in check mate (or knocked out, incapacitated, etc) you win. In chess you can absolutely, should be forcing your opponents to make specific moves to be successful. You try to do this as someone in a fight, or any intelligent endeavor, but you have to be open to surprise to be successful. If you know how the chess board works, and the mechanics of all the pieces... like I said I think I get the point you’re trying to make. Cheers.
@@hard2hurt They were nicer than the gloves they wore in Jack Johnson`s day, have you ever seen a Johnson fight on youtube? I think he ws parrying wrong like how you advised not to on this vid, despite him having a great rep for defense etc.
You nailed it. It can be very effective once in a while particularly as a surprise. If you go searching for a trap or try too many times, you’ll usually get tagged by a good boxer. I find it easier to trap guys who have a rigid high guard. George Foreman, back in the 70s, used to trap hands all of the time very effectively.
Sure, coming from below the elbows to raise them, it can bridge the whole upper body and let's you shift them whole in the direction you want them to return in. 🙏
Hi Mike (i am still here! but i am just less active with the comments : P) this is very good topic! and as you say, the truth is between. traditionals like to blocking because they dont have big gloves as a shield and boxers/kickboxers have big gloves so they like to parry. when i moved from wingchun to boxing i had a hard time because i wanted to block all punches - it was not easy - and every time i finish training with red face after maaaany punches : P heh when i was training wing chun my trainer said that i can not do more than 3 block and after them i have to go forward... because if i am going to just blocking and go back then i creating "open door" for him to keep attacking me when he is going forward all the time so i have to break his rhythm. and most of the people like to do combos with 2-4 moves (like 1,1,2 lowkick etc) so i should do block-block and go forward (ofc is not easy to do it...and you need training for it - and this is sad part about WC schools that not so many have sparrings sooo this is why many wing chun guys are super suprice when they get beat up when they fight another style because they do only chisao or some drills in the distance where is not passible to get punch - then ofc you can feel like you are like IP Man in the movies when EVERYTHING is cool and noone can touch you - but the truth is difrent : D heh) . soo is as you said ... truth is somewhere between (sorry for my english - is still suck : P)
The Kung fu stuff has many interesting drills, but very few sifus try to teach or improve these movements and the aplications on real fight are almost lost. Such a shame. Great video Mr Mike
@Darth Yautja There are some full contact competitions for Kung Fu, such as Lei Tai. In my experience the people who train for that tend to be pretty good, well-rounded fighters. Trapping can be useful but you have to understand the context of it in order for it to be useful. It's basically to create an opening to counter, or to get some control in order to reposition, either to create an angle, or to attempt to take the opponent's back. Handfighting in boxing uses some very similar concepts, so I imagine that some of it likely seemed to be a bit redundant. Sparring is absolutely crucial to any martial art, but Kung Fu does it quite a lot more than people give it credit for. There are a lot of charlatans out there who use the name Kung Fu to make money, and never take part in sparring of any kind, but there's also an entire competitive community of really great fighters. It seems like you landed somewhere in the middle, where you had a legitimate instructor who just didn't care much about sparring until he saw how much his students were lagging behind.
There's definately two modes in fighting, open and closed hand techniques. Couldn't see any knife palm chop strikes but plenty of chance to close the opponents guard to make them. Economy of movement in close in encounters can be greatly improved with Wing Chun especially when there is nowhere left to move in your stance 🙏
Just feels like morons like you and this guy, and joe rogan who is a fake who I also had the distinct displeasure of working with, are all just a bunch of group think braus trying to discredit and dumb down martial arts Hard 2 hurt is easy to hurt, loves to stay in the pocket and bang, what a moron, stupidest and most harmful style and approach to the arts. Nice guy, bit of an idiot though
@@danplasma Yes, traps generally don't call for a bang. It's a mentality factor that gruels them to what is true. In life it's one big ride for survival 🙏
I feel like I see it a lot more in Muay Thai than MMA, but you’re right anytime I see it they’re never holding on for very long. It’s almost always to trap the wrists/hands and immediately pull them down so they can come over top with an elbow or to pull their opponent into a knee
My old karate instructor used to do a thing where he'd suddenly charge in and trap/knock down your guard in a rolling kind of way that immediately transitioned into a flurry of head punches. It was pretty hard to deal with! He was also quite a big guy though, and I think this is a significant factor.
This is always my biggest complaint with boxing gloves because my trapping skills go out the window on the plus side it does make me work my movement more because half my defense just became null by the marshmallows on my hands
The key to successful Wing Chun trapping is to move to the outside simultaneously, trap and strike at the same time, and use it to set up big hits like a double lap sao into a dbl eye gouge/headbutt or a tan sao into a finger jab. If you stay in the center like a lot of Wing Chun guys, you'll get overrun. Big reason why they got destroyed by the MMA guy. They stood in front and got wrecked by a physically stronger fighter.
Your channel just keeps getting better, as a former wing chunner, now judoka, I love videos like this that pressure test the art, because the classes never did.
I love the cross trapping, it's one of those things I've learned from Mike that really worked for me while sparring. But yes, you gotta' practice it, shadow box it, drill it, and fail it a few times. Woah, I know, too much work, right?
Top analysis 👍. I hope you get to experience some guys who use their Wing Chun well. There are many McDojos that teach very basic drills and concepts for years focusing too much on hand technique and not enough on body mechanics and pressure. Wing Chun is basically a dirty boxing style. When you make contact you need to use your structure to disrupt and unbalance your opponent and ideally strike at the same time if possible. Alan Orr and David Blackley are great pragmatic Wing Chun instructors/fighters worth looking up on UA-cam. Both are really skilled and humble guys to train with in person
Hey, found your channel recently and love your videos. I am new to boxing and your videos about right stances and fighting really helped me. Big thumps up from slovakia 🇸🇰
Another thing I learned in Kung Fu I learned (specifically Shaolin) is the speed at which you “check” their hands. You kind of intuitively knew that, but you can’t rush in otherwise you get a different reaction than if you lightly tap in.
Nice one! What also works very well for me (with gloves), is checking a left hand/jab with the right and punching a left handed jab myself just at the same time.
I spent a lot of time thiking about Wing Chun, and I came to the conclusion that all of it was built on forward pressure into the clinch. Every thing you do with your arms is a set up for stepping in with an elbow, and every thing you do with your legs is a low kick because it's the most efficient form of distance control and the only techniques that transfer into the clinch. It's all out or all in, there is no pocket for Wing Chin.
@Cliven Longsight I agree the better you get the less important techniques and combos are. You just roll with what comes, find the gaps to strike and control the other person's centre of gravity/momentum
There an advantage that you dont need to be the first to engage. A deflection sets up your stance and the rest usually means they dont get another shot at you or atleast it might serve for a pinning trap 🙏 You can't assume that the strike isn't real, the more real it is the more advantage it can serve you to counteract it.
I like this, your telling something that wing chun guys struggle with. We call it "chasing the hands" we're you are more worried about trying to catch the hands rather than hitting the guy! Also, it's in the form, when a block goes to the side then forward, you used it in this clip at 1:00. Also, standing and blocking with out punching is like saying, I'm going to stand and only use head movement, so thanks for the video, it's great
I do hand trapping all the time. Where people mess up is that they plan on doing hand trapping. Fighting is all about target of opportunity. That’s why you don’t have only one bag of tricks. Even boxing has different strategies for that reason. Trapping is a VERY effective technique when the opportunity presents itself.
I've been in wing chun for about ten years and I've heard this from masters, from multiple lineages and we trained it in mine Trap once maybe twice when closing distance, trap to break their guard, then strike. Grapple, whatever you have to do, you use it to get your attack in not to stop yourself getting attacked. Wing chun is made for offense. That's why silva failed with his jkd (that and only doing it a couple months) and why furgeson did well when he used a lap sao to break his oppenents guard and follow through with a strike
I really incorporating wingchun with my other striking. My boxing coach was good at teaching wingchun and kali, and using mitts to combine wingchun trapping and boxing/kickboxing combinations. It did relatively well when I started using it in sparring. Granted it was with people a little less experience than me.
Yes, thank you, Mike. From my own personal experience, everything you said is 1000% true. Kung Fu was my first primary art and when I transitioned to Western style boxing, Judo, MT AND MMA I thought trapping was BS until I realized I was waiting for the opponent to come to me. When I realized as you demoed here that you can go to the opponent yourself and trap offensively the light bulb went off. You referred to it here as checking but the way I describe it is that instead of throwing a punch I am throwing a hand trap. And since they are effectively the same up until the very last second at the point of contact, practically nobody can tell when I am trapping and when I am hitting g allowing me to effectively mix it up. The only way this works, however, is exactly as you said -- you better have hands the opponent respects first.
The fist time I encountered hand parries is when my dad taught me a trick to use as a last resort kinda thing just to get the opportunity to open the other person up to strikes. I later came across wing chun and took some techniques from that (though I never actually learned wing chun).
@@hard2hurt You don't get it do you? You give yourself your rank then set up your school as Great Grand Master Mike! Even better give yourself a Chinese name and buy a pair of silk PJs 😉
I never thought of that open hand style of “checking the hands” would work for a small person in boxing. Foreman’s old fights, well I guess they are all old now, but his fights from when he was young he did that open hand extended guard. It allowed him to destroy arguably one of the greatest heavyweight divisions since we’ve kept good enough records to really know this stuff. For big guys watch those fights for effective ways to use these techniques in competition... Foreman pulled out the old style a bit for the Moorer fight too.
I agree that the truth is somewhere in the middle. There are two other things that you could also explore: 1) Parry and attack at the same time. This is a very common technique in CMA. 2) Use combinations of parrying and attacking in a sequence of no more than three or four. These have to be varied and not just repeated. 3) Adding in circular attacks and attacks from different angles, usually with parts of the hand and arm not typically used in MMA. 4) I personally never use a straight arm to grab their hands. I use special weight training to make my parries strong enough to unbalance them, then attack them repeatedly and overwhelm them. 5) Parry their attack, then move to their side or behind them and transition into locks, chokes and throws. Most Wingchun guys never spar and thus can't use this stuff when they have to start from no-contact. Most Chinese styles have a lot of trapping. I would go as far as saying that if practitioners do not employ trapping that they are not doing Gongfu.
As a kung fu guy who made the switch to Muay Thai , I found it can work in very limited scenarios but as you said you must throw something back once you have a opportunity or have a plan and back it up . Love ya videos dude ! Keep it up you beast !
Another thing gravelly overlooked is using complex traps or using a frontal assault when trapping. This system prides itself on more of a path of least resistance approach. As a wing chun practitioner for a few years, I've noticed a major issue with the system is the training methodology. At a certain point you have to make the system your own. And practitioners with open minds and a good level of ability use wing chun concepts with boxing or kickboxing techniques. Also. The Muk yan jong and form is the perfect example of this approach I just mentioned. Don't knock, my guy. Love the vids though.
4:35 « Just touch it just touch it » While reaching all the way to intercept and push. Good video though. About “just touching” the parries : You’re quite on point that in general, one shouldn’t move the hand much while parrying so as not to leave an opening. That being said I feel that there is one exception to this rule. You can reach/push far away (arm’s length even) if you do it to attack at the same time and while moving forward aggressively. For exemple, if the other guy (ortho vs ortho) throws a cross you can parry/stiff push his cross with your lead hand to your right and kinda stuff it across his body. (A lot easier if you parry deep near the elbow). If you do that while moving directly towards him or diagonally to the left, you’re messing his whole structure while leaving a big opening for you. I have a feeling that’s how the big wide blocks were used in many traditional martial arts, in a very aggressive manner. As soon as you touch/intercept the punch you move forward deeply with your block and stuff him/unbalance his structure.
It's definately in the middle. You never know if the guy's going to fully extend and you can't rely on predetermined moves like in chi sao. Mixing trapping with boxing (or whatever) is a better way to fight.
Dominick Izzo (ex-cop, does Wing Chun) talked about finding a coach that teaches how to move forward while fighting, and about how some coaches don't teach their students the full style, to keep them from opening their own gym.
Haha a lot of the wing chun guys need to hear this, as im one myself i was always told 2sticks 1sound so if you are parrying blocking trapping you should be striking at the same time👊
Love this. Insightful and funny as always. Quick question, Wing chun in the context of grappling? Something I've noticed/realised from like watching Ramsey Dewey is, a lot of the wing chun forms seem to make more sense in a context of grappling. Standing grappling defense to be precise. For example that classic "elbow block" though seems functional as a potential means of blocking seems to work better as building frame for if a big bully tries to get you in a clinch.
@Serpentine Fire that's the thing. A lot of Chinese TMA have lost their original context and meaning due to the process of time and lack of writings. I speculate that the original context and application of Wing Chun is building frames and countering someone when they like grab you in a collar tie or they try to clinch up. I don't think Wing chun is about striking and parrying and all that modern interpretation. The issue is, I don't have a wrestling and grappling background to test my newest speculation. And every time I ask someone from the MMA community to try it, they just brush me off and tell me Wing Chun is BS xD
@@perrenchan6600 Food for thought... Dominick Izzo has a strong wrestling background and he says he always approached Wing Chun with a wrestling mindset and it's worked wonders for him.
@@perrenchan6600 Correct ℹ️ concept re: TMA WingChun origin., Designed 🔧 specific for counters, by women being *restrained / dominated by oppresiVe indiviDuals., From original Shaolin forms., adapted *grappling included.
The best use I've had for trapping is in ten plus years as a bouncer, diffusing drunks in close quarters. I've done it. It works. I also cross train in a whole bunch of styles and realize W.C. isn't a complete system.
I found trapping useful also to create openings in the guard with opponents that are really defensive. Basically you just move out of the way the arm/hand and then hit. Is simple and many people doesn't know how to deal with that. I think a video about this could be interesting.
Trapping is a paradox because some schools teach the patti-cake, completely forget about striking but espouse that you attack and defend the same time. 'Don't chase the hands' but the whole class is drills to flap your arms.
Kung fu as an unarmed art is about 150 years old and really started changing once firearms became cheaper. Before that it was mostly for armed combat. For traps as they were originally done think more like covering both arms with a shield and stabbing with a sword. Hand position was not that important or intricate, but footwork and striking while in motion (body checking) was a much bigger part of their strategies. Think Limenchenko with knives rather than squaring off with sticky hands.
. wing chun is stay ahead of your opponents timing parts of it is in chi sau which is a drill chi gerk which is wing chun leg trapping and fast hands utilize all 4 of these and you stand a chance
you can kind of do it in MMA gloves or barehanded if your fast but it's always a good idea to cover your face and chin and dodge. Always try to cut some kind of angle if you can
Would you consider the long guard taught in muay thai as hand trapping cuz when i use the long guard i tend to use it to parry trap and control the vision of my opponent would love your opinions on it
handtrapping seems to be much more effective when your opponent is on the ground or has their back against the wall, because they have no where to go. Tyler casselman has a few videos where he's trying to apply some WC stuff in the guard, it seems pretty useful for handfighting.
the reason all those heal siting wing chun students do that is probably because they either didn't get taught how to properly strike between blocks or they get caught up in this matrix idea of blocking for ever, and they forget to answer back, that's what asking hand or man sao is all about, it's about counter striking, it's literally kung fu's answer to boxing's in fighting but with a few grabs and kicks thrown in, the idea is, the attacker WILL attack you with a couple punches, probly a one two or hooks or something, you will then use the front hand to deflect that attack, and either use the other hand to strike, or use it to deflect the NEXT attack and if it seems like theirs no time for a punch you throw a straight kick instead, either to the gut or the groin, cuz in the street anything goes, now the problem is, a lot of wing chun schools only teach it as more exercise than anything, they don't teach it in a combat orientation, but it can be useful as a combat art, like karate it's all about what you train for, no one who knows anything about real fighting is gonna sit their and use the blocking drills as their way of fighting an opponent just like how in boxing their are drills you use to get motor functions down to a reactionary timing, you don't go in using these drills as the techniques for your fighting you use the techniques you practiced on the pads, honestly that's what many wing chun schools are missing, pad work, put the student against a boxer, or someone with pads, let them feel a hit or two, teach them combos just like in boxing so that their ready when a fight happens, you don't just teach a boxer, how to stick and move and then go, "ok go hit the heavy bag, run, and then practice the stick and move and you'll be ready" you gotta teach them combos, how to react to situations and how to deal with certain types of fighters, it's why boxers used to watch tapes of their opponents, so they could train against that style of boxing, give a valid, experienced wing chun practitioner some real fight training and show him a video of another fighter in another style, then teach him how to defend against and attack that style using wing chun and then send him into ring, i'm sure the outcome will be much better than these amateur videos of kids heel sitting and trying to slap fight
Kung Fu guy here. One who wasn't fooled for a minute by Fake Mace. And this was honestly the absolute best Kung Fu demonstration I've seen on UA-cam. Seriously. If people want to do Kung Fu, that's fine, but they should learn to make it work. Otherwise all that's left is a bunch of stupid Maoist dancing. Seriously, if you want to learn hand trapping, be willing to get a couple dings and bruises. You were showing basic concepts every flavor of Kung Fu preaches to be effective, but which 90% of Kung Fu practitioners are too frugal to invest in a jar of Tiger Balm and put to the test. Thank you for showing people what it takes to really learn.
A lot of the stuff in this video makes me think of fencing. You could be the greatest defensive swordsman in all of history but if you can't learn to counter you'll just lose the fight a little later. I guess with swords the effectiveness of strong guards and parrying is just much more apparent.
The biggest thing even it comes to the bend trapping is u gotta put in the time in the sensitivity training just like the clinch in muay thai The tactile sensitivity is a skill that is developed with hours & years of training.... like u see when see a muay Khao fight someone and just destroy them in the clinch is the same way u feel going against a high level wing chun guy IF they properly pressure tested their art but sadly majority don't but that doesn't mean the art isn't effective
Yes. Exactly. Real trapping doesn't look like it looks in a Donnie Yen movie. But real striking doesn't look like it does in a Van Damme movie either. Trapping is an amplifier/enabler for striking. At the right time and in the right combination it can be decisive (especially if you're fighting a guy who is not expecting it)...but its not a substitute. If you can't create advantage with it in one or two movements, then clinch, shoot, punch your way out, or evade and reset. It always baffles me why people think Wing Chun (which I bring up because Wing Chun is known for traps) isn't practical. At its core, Wing Chun is just the style of dirty boxing native to coastal southern China.
Icey Mike, shout out. First of all I'm age 58, a martial arts "hobbyist". My last formal instruction was out of a home gym with an older instructor with 40 years Wing Chun training and teaching experience. He teaches modified W.C. concepts that deals with circular strikes unlike the traditional straight ahead W.C. Masters we've watched getting beaten downs on videos. *His trapping is the real deal BUT even he'll tell you that trapping usually works for just entries and stand up grappling, not a pit-patter of blocking of coming attacks. He has some training UA-cam videos at: wingchunkungfu4sd. Maybe I can get him to try and call in your broadcast. BEEN LOVING YOUR PODCAST!!! Thx!
In my own personal experience with Kung Fu, at least with the style of it I learned, this principle you laid out is often followed in many of the techniques that get taught, it's just utilized as a defensive tool much more often than an offensive one. The whole idea of trapping the hand is to get an opening for your own attack, or to exercise some control while getting to a better position. Oftentimes these techniques will be accompanied by a step off center, either to create an angle or to take an opponent's back. You see this somewhat often in full contact Kung Fu competitions such as Lei Tai. If you're only sitting back and handfighting with someone, you're only doing half a technique and you're accomplishing nothing, in addition to that, you're keeping yourself in a bad position rather than working to improve it. Boxing also does handfighting in somewhat similar situations. The only issue I can see with utilizing it aggressively like this, (that is to say stepping forward to grab both wrists) and likely the reason I haven't seen it much, is that it seems like it can leave you very open if your opponent doesn't stay right there with his hands up. Even if you condition him well and get him to cover up, the opponent can still take a step back or to the side and exploit the exposed position you might leave yourself in. It certainly can work, but it seems like a lot of risk for not much reward.
In most cases you can’t hold his hands or arms. More likely would be better to move his arms up or down to create an opportunity to set something up. This all has to happen in an instance. You won’t be able to move and hold his arms in an ideal position for you for much time at all
0:22 "the truth is somewhere in the middle"
Ah yes, of course, it is. It wouldn't be a Hard2Hurt video if the answer wasn't "no, except for when it's yes".
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I'm a sanda fighter and kung fu practictioner, I've always uses some traditional techniques in the exact same way you've explained them and they've always worked. People should stop judging martial arts they didn't even studied, so great content man!
Are you still buddies with Sergio? I'd love to see more videos with him when the world is back to normal
I’ve had similar findings when sparring, was surprised at how many wing chun traps I was able to pull off from training it, but unless you counterattack on the first bridge you make and are very aggressive with it, you will get herded around and of course picked apart, most wing chun people are obsessed with looking perfect and also don’t train with enough power, which destroys them. Ironic since the entire system is built for counters but no one uses them well, I also played around with the bong sao as a shell too, great stance similar to the philly shell. Also thank you for explaining the difference between gloves and bare knuckle, you can’t believe the hordes of people who tell me if you can’t do it with boxing gloves you can’t do it bare knuckle, and wing chun is all about wrist mobility, wild.
Not quite understanding how wing chun works, bud
diz deck I won the first international wing chun tournament at the Shaolin temple in China and have full permission to teach it.
@@philiphartshorn facts bro. It hurts to see people trash wing chun so much when it actually has some good techniques in it. Alot of the time people who learn wing chun just want to set up the perfect fight like u see in movies but pretty sure traditionally it would be used to find easier counters off parties.
@@maxzhao8331 Have you ever done a pushup in a fight? The argument doesn't work. The forms are the baseline dance to build the technique and train your body. Bruce Lee first learned wing chun and it was evident anytime you saw him fight. I doubt anyone here would say he was trash without trolling of course.
I may not be a “fighter” but I did start learning wing chun and started using its theoretical applications with some Muay Thai practical methods and when I goof around and spar with my friends I find myself doing loads better. But they are even more untrained then I am lol
It pisses me off when people say there's only one way to do things. Fighting is like Chess. Sure you don't want to use your queen to take a pawn but sometimes its a valid strategy.
My understanding is that capturing a hanging pawn with your queen can be okay. Just don't leave your queen hanging afterwards! That can ruin your whole day. And don't capture a protected pawn with your queen or that'll ruin your whole entire week.
@@rabiesbiter5681 he means a queen sacrifice situation, where you sac the queen for the pawn and gain an advantage, probably be for checkmate, or some kind of overwhelming advantage
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That's a good point! Thank you. I always find chess problems that call for deliberate queen sacrifice to be the hardest to solve.
The thing is it's very rare and usually the result of a scramble from a mistake.
I think I get the analogy you’re trying to make, but I don’t think any chess match with players of a certain level of skill you’d see a queen take a pawn... the situations you would use this “move” would be to force specific movements from your opponents king, and probably to win.. in actual fighting, and I’m not the most personally experienced but from my own experiences and watching fights since the 90s, you can be decent and improve your skills at what your opponents might do; but there are no “guarantees”. You can’t say 100% if I do ‘x’ he’s in check mate (or knocked out, incapacitated, etc) you win. In chess you can absolutely, should be forcing your opponents to make specific moves to be successful. You try to do this as someone in a fight, or any intelligent endeavor, but you have to be open to surprise to be successful. If you know how the chess board works, and the mechanics of all the pieces... like I said I think I get the point you’re trying to make. Cheers.
My dad and I were just sitting here watching and both said that those are some really nice gloves! The S5's
They do look good don't they?
@@hard2hurt Absolutely!
@@hard2hurt They were nicer than the gloves they wore in Jack Johnson`s day, have you ever seen a Johnson fight on youtube? I think he ws parrying wrong like how you advised not to on this vid, despite him having a great rep for defense etc.
You're dad sounds cool
@C b Yikes! You sound like a disgruntled ex.
You nailed it. It can be very effective once in a while particularly as a surprise. If you go searching for a trap or try too many times, you’ll usually get tagged by a good boxer. I find it easier to trap guys who have a rigid high guard. George Foreman, back in the 70s, used to trap hands all of the time very effectively.
For an MMA example, Jon Jones traps hands a lot and sometimes throws an elbow. Nearly knocked out Rashad Evans that way.
Just check out Lomochenko
Sure, coming from below the elbows to raise them, it can bridge the whole upper body and let's you shift them whole in the direction you want them to return in. 🙏
Hi Mike (i am still here! but i am just less active with the comments : P)
this is very good topic! and as you say, the truth is between. traditionals like to blocking because they dont have big gloves as a shield and boxers/kickboxers have big gloves so they like to parry.
when i moved from wingchun to boxing i had a hard time because i wanted to block all punches - it was not easy - and every time i finish training with red face after maaaany punches : P heh
when i was training wing chun my trainer said that i can not do more than 3 block and after them i have to go forward... because if i am going to just blocking and go back then i creating "open door" for him to keep attacking me when he is going forward all the time so i have to break his rhythm. and most of the people like to do combos with 2-4 moves (like 1,1,2 lowkick etc) so i should do block-block and go forward (ofc is not easy to do it...and you need training for it - and this is sad part about WC schools that not so many have sparrings sooo this is why many wing chun guys are super suprice when they get beat up when they fight another style because they do only chisao or some drills in the distance where is not passible to get punch - then ofc you can feel like you are like IP Man in the movies when EVERYTHING is cool and noone can touch you - but the truth is difrent : D heh) .
soo is as you said ... truth is somewhere between
(sorry for my english - is still suck : P)
The Kung fu stuff has many interesting drills, but very few sifus try to teach or improve these movements and the aplications on real fight are almost lost. Such a shame. Great video Mr Mike
@Darth Yautja There are some full contact competitions for Kung Fu, such as Lei Tai. In my experience the people who train for that tend to be pretty good, well-rounded fighters. Trapping can be useful but you have to understand the context of it in order for it to be useful. It's basically to create an opening to counter, or to get some control in order to reposition, either to create an angle, or to attempt to take the opponent's back. Handfighting in boxing uses some very similar concepts, so I imagine that some of it likely seemed to be a bit redundant.
Sparring is absolutely crucial to any martial art, but Kung Fu does it quite a lot more than people give it credit for. There are a lot of charlatans out there who use the name Kung Fu to make money, and never take part in sparring of any kind, but there's also an entire competitive community of really great fighters. It seems like you landed somewhere in the middle, where you had a legitimate instructor who just didn't care much about sparring until he saw how much his students were lagging behind.
There's definately two modes in fighting, open and closed hand techniques.
Couldn't see any knife palm chop strikes but plenty of chance to close the opponents guard to make them.
Economy of movement in close in encounters can be greatly improved with Wing Chun especially when there is nowhere left to move in your stance 🙏
Just feels like morons like you and this guy, and joe rogan who is a fake who I also had the distinct displeasure of working with, are all just a bunch of group think braus trying to discredit and dumb down martial arts
Hard 2 hurt is easy to hurt, loves to stay in the pocket and bang, what a moron, stupidest and most harmful style and approach to the arts.
Nice guy, bit of an idiot though
@@danplasma Yes, traps generally don't call for a bang.
It's a mentality factor that gruels them to what is true.
In life it's one big ride for survival 🙏
"they say they cant hear you"
Nate at one half of a decibel: yeah whatever
no hate i'm also quiet.
That punch at 7:20 was actually pretty Wing Chun, lol
3:24 "I can't just keep doing it forever" he says after he blocks and parries 12 punches
Lol keep in mind that is slow friendly and with him standing still and only Punching…
LMFAOOOOOO
That’s why they call him Icy lol
A similar tactic is used by many russian boxers like Lomachenko where the opponents guard is pulled down by the opposite hand to set up a punch.
Not only do you have to back up your trapping with striking/boxing, you also have to set it up properly. Good vid, Mike!
I feel like I see it a lot more in Muay Thai than MMA, but you’re right anytime I see it they’re never holding on for very long. It’s almost always to trap the wrists/hands and immediately pull them down so they can come over top with an elbow or to pull their opponent into a knee
Get Sergio back in here to show some of his Hand-trapping techniques. Great video, Mike.
Points fighters do that a lot slap the glove down and come right back with over hand or superman punch
My old karate instructor used to do a thing where he'd suddenly charge in and trap/knock down your guard in a rolling kind of way that immediately transitioned into a flurry of head punches. It was pretty hard to deal with!
He was also quite a big guy though, and I think this is a significant factor.
This is always my biggest complaint with boxing gloves because my trapping skills go out the window on the plus side it does make me work my movement more because half my defense just became null by the marshmallows on my hands
Haha I think we all like the wing chun part at the end 😂 Go Ip Man get the bad guys woohoo 😜😉
You can tell Mike is having more fun than usual while filming this video. 4:54
The key to successful Wing Chun trapping is to move to the outside simultaneously, trap and strike at the same time, and use it to set up big hits like a double lap sao into a dbl eye gouge/headbutt or a tan sao into a finger jab. If you stay in the center like a lot of Wing Chun guys, you'll get overrun. Big reason why they got destroyed by the MMA guy. They stood in front and got wrecked by a physically stronger fighter.
Your channel just keeps getting better, as a former wing chunner, now judoka, I love videos like this that pressure test the art, because the classes never did.
I like the mash and the pressing offense strategy, just don't forget the reap 🙏
Nice usage of gate on the freestyle punches with boxing stance...
Trapping alone to win a fight is like satisfying a woman by showcasing your condom-purchasing skills: It's not gonna happen.
What about roberto duran? I would still consider it trapping.
Hahaha fuck yes 😂
Lmao.
Daniel Cormier extends his hands alot
Love the ol' skip-the-rock parry counter.
It's my favorite
I love the cross trapping, it's one of those things I've learned from Mike that really worked for me while sparring.
But yes, you gotta' practice it, shadow box it, drill it, and fail it a few times.
Woah, I know, too much work, right?
This channel is awesome it covers everything and is one of the most realistic and accurate martial art channels in youtube.
Top analysis 👍. I hope you get to experience some guys who use their Wing Chun well. There are many McDojos that teach very basic drills and concepts for years focusing too much on hand technique and not enough on body mechanics and pressure.
Wing Chun is basically a dirty boxing style. When you make contact you need to use your structure to disrupt and unbalance your opponent and ideally strike at the same time if possible.
Alan Orr and David Blackley are great pragmatic Wing Chun instructors/fighters worth looking up on UA-cam. Both are really skilled and humble guys to train with in person
Hey, found your channel recently and love your videos. I am new to boxing and your videos about right stances and fighting really helped me. Big thumps up from slovakia 🇸🇰
I have found that hand checks and traps etc. to come naturally in weapon sparring.
Another thing I learned in Kung Fu I learned (specifically Shaolin) is the speed at which you “check” their hands. You kind of intuitively knew that, but you can’t rush in otherwise you get a different reaction than if you lightly tap in.
Yeah if you do it in a nonthreatening way it works better.
Nice one! What also works very well for me (with gloves), is checking a left hand/jab with the right and punching a left handed jab myself just at the same time.
I spent a lot of time thiking about Wing Chun, and I came to the conclusion that all of it was built on forward pressure into the clinch. Every thing you do with your arms is a set up for stepping in with an elbow, and every thing you do with your legs is a low kick because it's the most efficient form of distance control and the only techniques that transfer into the clinch.
It's all out or all in, there is no pocket for Wing Chin.
Close range techniques and forward pressure
@Cliven Longsight I agree the better you get the less important techniques and combos are. You just roll with what comes, find the gaps to strike and control the other person's centre of gravity/momentum
There an advantage that you dont need to be the first to engage. A deflection sets up your stance and the rest usually means they dont get another shot at you or atleast it might serve for a pinning trap 🙏 You can't assume that the strike isn't real, the more real it is the more advantage it can serve you to counteract it.
Every time I go to look something up I can’t find any videos then you always pop up with the perfect vid I don’t know how you do it 😂
You don't need to grab to trap, or even reach out. Just hit. Once you make contact you trap.
Dude - I need to get out there. I've got a lot of good trapping drills that actually work. Good video - a balanced approach to actual "handtraps"
Glad to see this (what should be) common sense being put out there.
I like this, your telling something that wing chun guys struggle with. We call it "chasing the hands" we're you are more worried about trying to catch the hands rather than hitting the guy! Also, it's in the form, when a block goes to the side then forward, you used it in this clip at 1:00. Also, standing and blocking with out punching is like saying, I'm going to stand and only use head movement, so thanks for the video, it's great
I do hand trapping all the time. Where people mess up is that they plan on doing hand trapping. Fighting is all about target of opportunity. That’s why you don’t have only one bag of tricks.
Even boxing has different strategies for that reason.
Trapping is a VERY effective technique when the opportunity presents itself.
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The truth is somewhere in the middle is the most accurate statement I've heard in a long time...
I've been in wing chun for about ten years and I've heard this from masters, from multiple lineages and we trained it in mine
Trap once maybe twice when closing distance, trap to break their guard, then strike. Grapple, whatever you have to do, you use it to get your attack in not to stop yourself getting attacked. Wing chun is made for offense. That's why silva failed with his jkd (that and only doing it a couple months) and why furgeson did well when he used a lap sao to break his oppenents guard and follow through with a strike
I really incorporating wingchun with my other striking. My boxing coach was good at teaching wingchun and kali, and using mitts to combine wingchun trapping and boxing/kickboxing combinations. It did relatively well when I started using it in sparring. Granted it was with people a little less experience than me.
Yes, thank you, Mike. From my own personal experience, everything you said is 1000% true. Kung Fu was my first primary art and when I transitioned to Western style boxing, Judo, MT AND MMA I thought trapping was BS until I realized I was waiting for the opponent to come to me. When I realized as you demoed here that you can go to the opponent yourself and trap offensively the light bulb went off. You referred to it here as checking but the way I describe it is that instead of throwing a punch I am throwing a hand trap. And since they are effectively the same up until the very last second at the point of contact, practically nobody can tell when I am trapping and when I am hitting g allowing me to effectively mix it up. The only way this works, however, is exactly as you said -- you better have hands the opponent respects first.
The fist time I encountered hand parries is when my dad taught me a trick to use as a last resort kinda thing just to get the opportunity to open the other person up to strikes. I later came across wing chun and took some techniques from that (though I never actually learned wing chun).
Is Icy Mike one of the best kung fu master on youtube? Yes, yes he is :D
They need to go ahead and give me my rank
@@hard2hurt how bout' Ubber Nija Fu Master 3rd Class?
@@hard2hurt You don't get it do you? You give yourself your rank then set up your school as Great Grand Master Mike!
Even better give yourself a Chinese name and buy a pair of silk PJs 😉
Reminds me of people early on in sword fighting you gotta do a attack your control is never gonna be as good as you think it is .
I never thought of that open hand style of “checking the hands” would work for a small person in boxing. Foreman’s old fights, well I guess they are all old now, but his fights from when he was young he did that open hand extended guard. It allowed him to destroy arguably one of the greatest heavyweight divisions since we’ve kept good enough records to really know this stuff. For big guys watch those fights for effective ways to use these techniques in competition... Foreman pulled out the old style a bit for the Moorer fight too.
I agree that the truth is somewhere in the middle. There are two other things that you could also explore:
1) Parry and attack at the same time. This is a very common technique in CMA.
2) Use combinations of parrying and attacking in a sequence of no more than three or four. These have to be varied and not just repeated.
3) Adding in circular attacks and attacks from different angles, usually with parts of the hand and arm not typically used in MMA.
4) I personally never use a straight arm to grab their hands. I use special weight training to make my parries strong enough to unbalance them, then attack them repeatedly and overwhelm them.
5) Parry their attack, then move to their side or behind them and transition into locks, chokes and throws.
Most Wingchun guys never spar and thus can't use this stuff when they have to start from no-contact. Most Chinese styles have a lot of trapping. I would go as far as saying that if practitioners do not employ trapping that they are not doing Gongfu.
The hand you check PAK SAO with. Should go from his bridge where we check it, and that same hand should go to target.
As a kung fu guy who made the switch to Muay Thai , I found it can work in very limited scenarios but as you said you must throw something back once you have a opportunity or have a plan and back it up . Love ya videos dude ! Keep it up you beast !
Another thing gravelly overlooked is using complex traps or using a frontal assault when trapping. This system prides itself on more of a path of least resistance approach.
As a wing chun practitioner for a few years, I've noticed a major issue with the system is the training methodology. At a certain point you have to make the system your own. And practitioners with open minds and a good level of ability use wing chun concepts with boxing or kickboxing techniques.
Also. The Muk yan jong and form is the perfect example of this approach I just mentioned. Don't knock, my guy. Love the vids though.
4:35
« Just touch it just touch it »
While reaching all the way to intercept and push.
Good video though.
About “just touching” the parries :
You’re quite on point that in general, one shouldn’t move the hand much while parrying so as not to leave an opening. That being said I feel that there is one exception to this rule.
You can reach/push far away (arm’s length even) if you do it to attack at the same time and while moving forward aggressively. For exemple, if the other guy (ortho vs ortho) throws a cross you can parry/stiff push his cross with your lead hand to your right and kinda stuff it across his body. (A lot easier if you parry deep near the elbow). If you do that while moving directly towards him or diagonally to the left, you’re messing his whole structure while leaving a big opening for you.
I have a feeling that’s how the big wide blocks were used in many traditional martial arts, in a very aggressive manner. As soon as you touch/intercept the punch you move forward deeply with your block and stuff him/unbalance his structure.
It's definately in the middle. You never know if the guy's going to fully extend and you can't rely on predetermined moves like in chi sao. Mixing trapping with boxing (or whatever) is a better way to fight.
Dominick Izzo (ex-cop, does Wing Chun) talked about finding a coach that teaches how to move forward while fighting, and about how some coaches don't teach their students the full style, to keep them from opening their own gym.
i'm using 4:55 as my new notification alert
Trapping has application in Boxing Gloves,but it is best used in MMA Gloves or just straight up Bare Knuckle.
Haha a lot of the wing chun guys need to hear this, as im one myself i was always told 2sticks 1sound so if you are parrying blocking trapping you should be striking at the same time👊
Love this. Insightful and funny as always.
Quick question, Wing chun in the context of grappling? Something I've noticed/realised from like watching Ramsey Dewey is, a lot of the wing chun forms seem to make more sense in a context of grappling. Standing grappling defense to be precise. For example that classic "elbow block" though seems functional as a potential means of blocking seems to work better as building frame for if a big bully tries to get you in a clinch.
@Serpentine Fire that's the thing. A lot of Chinese TMA have lost their original context and meaning due to the process of time and lack of writings. I speculate that the original context and application of Wing Chun is building frames and countering someone when they like grab you in a collar tie or they try to clinch up. I don't think Wing chun is about striking and parrying and all that modern interpretation. The issue is, I don't have a wrestling and grappling background to test my newest speculation. And every time I ask someone from the MMA community to try it, they just brush me off and tell me Wing Chun is BS xD
@@perrenchan6600 Food for thought... Dominick Izzo has a strong wrestling background and he says he always approached Wing Chun with a wrestling mindset and it's worked wonders for him.
@@perrenchan6600 Correct ℹ️ concept re: TMA WingChun origin.,
Designed 🔧 specific for counters, by women being *restrained / dominated by oppresiVe indiviDuals., From original Shaolin forms., adapted *grappling included.
The best use I've had for trapping is in ten plus years as a bouncer, diffusing drunks in close quarters. I've done it. It works. I also cross train in a whole bunch of styles and realize W.C. isn't a complete system.
I found trapping useful also to create openings in the guard with opponents that are really defensive. Basically you just move out of the way the arm/hand and then hit. Is simple and many people doesn't know how to deal with that. I think a video about this could be interesting.
Trapping is a paradox because some schools teach the patti-cake, completely forget about striking but espouse that you attack and defend the same time. 'Don't chase the hands' but the whole class is drills to flap your arms.
Great video. When is the next podcast gonna be?
Seems like the parry and hand traps need to setup the strikes.
Also, if you grip wrist, you should pull across body. If they twist out, is perfect chance for you to hit face.
Push his elbow down and into his body when the distance and position is right. Massive advantage and a very useful skill in fights.
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Kung fu as an unarmed art is about 150 years old and really started changing once firearms became cheaper. Before that it was mostly for armed combat. For traps as they were originally done think more like covering both arms with a shield and stabbing with a sword. Hand position was not that important or intricate, but footwork and striking while in motion (body checking) was a much bigger part of their strategies. Think Limenchenko with knives rather than squaring off with sticky hands.
. wing chun is stay ahead of your opponents timing parts of it is in chi sau which is a drill chi gerk which is wing chun leg trapping and fast hands utilize all 4 of these and you stand a chance
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you can kind of do it in MMA gloves or barehanded if your fast but it's always a good idea to cover your face and chin and dodge. Always try to cut some kind of angle if you can
Good video keep up the good work
Would you consider the long guard taught in muay thai as hand trapping cuz when i use the long guard i tend to use it to parry trap and control the vision of my opponent would love your opinions on it
handtrapping seems to be much more effective when your opponent is on the ground or has their back against the wall, because they have no where to go. Tyler casselman has a few videos where he's trying to apply some WC stuff in the guard, it seems pretty useful for handfighting.
the reason all those heal siting wing chun students do that is probably because they either didn't get taught how to properly strike between blocks or they get caught up in this matrix idea of blocking for ever, and they forget to answer back, that's what asking hand or man sao is all about, it's about counter striking, it's literally kung fu's answer to boxing's in fighting but with a few grabs and kicks thrown in, the idea is, the attacker WILL attack you with a couple punches, probly a one two or hooks or something, you will then use the front hand to deflect that attack, and either use the other hand to strike, or use it to deflect the NEXT attack and if it seems like theirs no time for a punch you throw a straight kick instead, either to the gut or the groin, cuz in the street anything goes, now the problem is, a lot of wing chun schools only teach it as more exercise than anything, they don't teach it in a combat orientation, but it can be useful as a combat art, like karate it's all about what you train for, no one who knows anything about real fighting is gonna sit their and use the blocking drills as their way of fighting an opponent just like how in boxing their are drills you use to get motor functions down to a reactionary timing, you don't go in using these drills as the techniques for your fighting you use the techniques you practiced on the pads, honestly that's what many wing chun schools are missing, pad work, put the student against a boxer, or someone with pads, let them feel a hit or two, teach them combos just like in boxing so that their ready when a fight happens, you don't just teach a boxer, how to stick and move and then go, "ok go hit the heavy bag, run, and then practice the stick and move and you'll be ready" you gotta teach them combos, how to react to situations and how to deal with certain types of fighters, it's why boxers used to watch tapes of their opponents, so they could train against that style of boxing, give a valid, experienced wing chun practitioner some real fight training and show him a video of another fighter in another style, then teach him how to defend against and attack that style using wing chun and then send him into ring, i'm sure the outcome will be much better than these amateur videos of kids heel sitting and trying to slap fight
Watch a old George foreman fight he hand checks a lot
Kung Fu guy here. One who wasn't fooled for a minute by Fake Mace. And this was honestly the absolute best Kung Fu demonstration I've seen on UA-cam. Seriously. If people want to do Kung Fu, that's fine, but they should learn to make it work. Otherwise all that's left is a bunch of stupid Maoist dancing. Seriously, if you want to learn hand trapping, be willing to get a couple dings and bruises. You were showing basic concepts every flavor of Kung Fu preaches to be effective, but which 90% of Kung Fu practitioners are too frugal to invest in a jar of Tiger Balm and put to the test. Thank you for showing people what it takes to really learn.
When someone has no clue about ving tsun, he should not talk about it. Period!
No hammer fist after parring? Dont you like it?
Try in inside elbow to someone’s forearm, doubt they’ll continue to hook. Just imagine how good it can happen to when your breaking arms
Hey, is not your dirty ”answering the phone” clinch a form of hand trapping?
A lot of the stuff in this video makes me think of fencing. You could be the greatest defensive swordsman in all of history but if you can't learn to counter you'll just lose the fight a little later.
I guess with swords the effectiveness of strong guards and parrying is just much more apparent.
I've trained in the Kung Fu styles and I agreed with what you said. Cool video
DC all about the hand trap. No matter how many shots he takes to the face
The biggest thing even it comes to the bend trapping is u gotta put in the time in the sensitivity training just like the clinch in muay thai
The tactile sensitivity is a skill that is developed with hours & years of training.... like u see when see a muay Khao fight someone and just destroy them in the clinch is the same way u feel going against a high level wing chun guy IF they properly pressure tested their art but sadly majority don't but that doesn't mean the art isn't effective
Next time on hard 2 hurt: Are Real Things even a real thing?
Yes. Exactly.
Real trapping doesn't look like it looks in a Donnie Yen movie. But real striking doesn't look like it does in a Van Damme movie either.
Trapping is an amplifier/enabler for striking. At the right time and in the right combination it can be decisive (especially if you're fighting a guy who is not expecting it)...but its not a substitute. If you can't create advantage with it in one or two movements, then clinch, shoot, punch your way out, or evade and reset.
It always baffles me why people think Wing Chun (which I bring up because Wing Chun is known for traps) isn't practical. At its core, Wing Chun is just the style of dirty boxing native to coastal southern China.
Mike doin that 52 Blocks!
Icey Mike, shout out. First of all I'm age 58, a martial arts "hobbyist". My last formal instruction was out of a home gym with an older instructor with 40 years Wing Chun training and teaching experience. He teaches modified W.C. concepts that deals with circular strikes unlike the traditional straight ahead W.C. Masters we've watched getting beaten downs on videos. *His trapping is the real deal BUT even he'll tell you that trapping usually works for just entries and stand up grappling, not a pit-patter of blocking of coming attacks. He has some training UA-cam videos at: wingchunkungfu4sd. Maybe I can get him to try and call in your broadcast. BEEN LOVING YOUR PODCAST!!! Thx!
2:54 we call that hand check a PAK SAO. Now try using it as an attack. Slap his bridge hand slap his face. Double it up. Add an elbow after
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George Foreman used to do that, didn't he?
Trap a hand is a very lucky situation.... in fact JKD talks about intercept, not trap, the same in wingchung ....
Man there is way more to it and its nothing how you explained it. But I understand. That's how everyone online thinks it is like.
In my own personal experience with Kung Fu, at least with the style of it I learned, this principle you laid out is often followed in many of the techniques that get taught, it's just utilized as a defensive tool much more often than an offensive one. The whole idea of trapping the hand is to get an opening for your own attack, or to exercise some control while getting to a better position. Oftentimes these techniques will be accompanied by a step off center, either to create an angle or to take an opponent's back. You see this somewhat often in full contact Kung Fu competitions such as Lei Tai.
If you're only sitting back and handfighting with someone, you're only doing half a technique and you're accomplishing nothing, in addition to that, you're keeping yourself in a bad position rather than working to improve it. Boxing also does handfighting in somewhat similar situations.
The only issue I can see with utilizing it aggressively like this, (that is to say stepping forward to grab both wrists) and likely the reason I haven't seen it much, is that it seems like it can leave you very open if your opponent doesn't stay right there with his hands up. Even if you condition him well and get him to cover up, the opponent can still take a step back or to the side and exploit the exposed position you might leave yourself in. It certainly can work, but it seems like a lot of risk for not much reward.
In most cases you can’t hold his hands or arms. More likely would be better to move his arms up or down to create an opportunity to set something up. This all has to happen in an instance. You won’t be able to move and hold his arms in an ideal position for you for much time at all