Steve Morris, the legendary British martial arts coach, who knows a thing or two about street fights, is very critical of Tony Blauer's method. Morris's No Holds Barred website has a wealth of information on the subject.
I follow 4 of them. The Spear guy I know of and respect immensely. Just don't follow his page. Have a friend that practices and trains the method. Funny I keep trying to get my martial arts buddies to watch the academy of ideas channel all the time. Thank you for posting. Now I'm going to go eat some carrot cake cheers!
I love your channel and do sub to the 1st 3 channels you promote here. However I gotta diss Blauer's "understanding" of the "science" of combat and self-defence. It is just plain wrong in many areas. His whole schtick about flinch reaction and his solution is ignorant nonsense, scientifically disproved and martially ineffective. Simplifying one's trained reaction to attack to be a direct jamming "spear" entry is inefficient and likely to fail against heavier, armed and/or lately perceived attacks. Get off the line of attack already.
I just checked it out, it’s “OK” stuff, but much too sport based for self defense. What specifically do I mean? Context: A defensive fight, in a sudden violent encounter that you can’t avoid, no rules, because they might kill you. After watching several videos, I observe that he tends to - Not kick the groin when that target presents. Not kick the knee when that target presents. Stays “in the pocket” instead of just outside of range, he’s not mobile enough. Simultaneously blocks a punch and creates a frame with his forearm, when an eye jab target is wide open. He doesn’t use Jack Dempsey’s power line principle. Looks like Silat influences. I stopped watching after that.
I was already following the first three. Now I have two new channels to watch. Thank you for the recommendations and for your own quality content.
Steve Morris, the legendary British martial arts coach, who knows a thing or two about street fights, is very critical of Tony Blauer's method. Morris's No Holds Barred website has a wealth of information on the subject.
Thank you Maitre Crown for the recommendations, just the thing for the post holiday feasting food coma!
Thank you
I know and like the first 3.
Let’s see the others
3 out of 6 ain’t bad, thanks for sharing them.
I follow 4 of them. The Spear guy I know of and respect immensely. Just don't follow his page. Have a friend that practices and trains the method. Funny I keep trying to get my martial arts buddies to watch the academy of ideas channel all the time. Thank you for posting. Now I'm going to go eat some carrot cake cheers!
Huge surprise, im not quite a fan of the karate nerd
I love your channel and do sub to the 1st 3 channels you promote here. However I gotta diss Blauer's "understanding" of the "science" of combat and self-defence. It is just plain wrong in many areas. His whole schtick about flinch reaction and his solution is ignorant nonsense, scientifically disproved and martially ineffective. Simplifying one's trained reaction to attack to be a direct jamming "spear" entry is inefficient and likely to fail against heavier, armed and/or lately perceived attacks. Get off the line of attack already.
I just checked it out, it’s “OK” stuff, but much too sport based for self defense.
What specifically do I mean?
Context: A defensive fight, in a sudden violent encounter that you can’t avoid, no rules, because they might kill you.
After watching several videos, I observe that he tends to -
Not kick the groin when that target presents.
Not kick the knee when that target presents.
Stays “in the pocket” instead of just outside of range, he’s not mobile enough.
Simultaneously blocks a punch and creates a frame with his forearm, when an eye jab target is wide open.
He doesn’t use Jack Dempsey’s power line principle.
Looks like Silat influences.
I stopped watching after that.