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One night as he was going about his rounds, some guy came up with his girlfriend and decided he would impress her by acting tough. I believe he was untrained. In any case, some words were exchanged, and he wasn't willing to back down despite my instructor calmly trying to get him to be on his way. He took some fighting stance and stepped in, but my instructor raised his leg and simply swished his foot a few centimeters in front of the man's face a few times, basically doing a quick roundhouse-hook-roundhous-hook kick combo. The gentleman promptly dropped his attitude, turned around, and walked off with his girlfriend.

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I guess your instructor told you this story? How lame,trying to put himself on a pedistal. Don't brag,if you are good others will do it for you.

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Lets give the instructor the benefit of the doubt; he could 'swish' his feet a few times inches from someone's face until proven otherwise. He could have told a taller one if he really wanted to impress.

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I guess your instructor told you this story? How lame,trying to put himself on a pedistal. Don't brag,if you are good others will do it for you.

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Pedistal? Not really. I actually heard it first from one of the shihan. The rationale behind relating it was to point out that you don't always have to actually 'get into it', even when someone is already coming at you. He never tried or claimed to be great.. though in keeping with the "others will do it for you" thing you brought up, I or any one of the people in the ryu can tell you he's great. Though, of course, you don't have to beleive it, but that's a prerogative we all have..

In any case, I rather wonder what's so hard to believe about it. Anyone that can kick at least head-high and has good balance could move their foot in front of someone's face, am I correct? I'm not saying the guy was charging blindly.. quite the opposite; he was being tentative because his motive was trying to impress his date by being 'tough', not "kill kill kill!". That's why it worked.. it gave the guy a chance to rethink, and he did.

I won't deny that a healthy amount of skeptisism is definately a good thing, but.. tall tales and fairy stories? Come on, the act of a few continuous kicks isn't terribly unbeleivable, especially if you practice kicking often. I can do it easily enough, I'm sure plenty of people on here can, as well..

Heh, all ranting aside, I'll summarize and say the story was true. Take it as you care to.

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Importance of wearing a cup, and why groin kicks aren't 100% effective all the time....


Sifu says story comming right up.....


Ok, so one day sifu told us a story, after someone got hit in the groin during sparring (I wasn't the kicker or the receiver). He was training with a group of friends one time, and two of them decided to do a little sparring. Now one of them wasn't wearing a cup, didn't feel he needed to. These two have sparred so often they can read each other's moves, and know what to expect....

So one of them ALWAYS does a straight front kick, then turns and does a back kick follow-up. The other guy (Man 2) knew this was the order of things, man 1 liked doing this combo a lot, so as kick 1 comes along, he (man 2) moves to the side and throws his own kick to the stomach (soccer style kick). Well man 1 slipped a little, and as he went right into his back kick he slid a bit, and the kick that was directed at his stomach (thrown by man 2)slipped a little below the mark.

According to sifu, after guy 1 got kicked in the goods (quite hard too), he walked around a little, fuming at the mouth, then puched two holes in the cinderblock walls. Then he fell down, threw up, and the rest of them drove guy 1 to the hospital, where he spent the next 6 months.....

Moral of the story:
1. Wear a cup

2. Shots to the groin aren't always the best for self defense...
the attacker might fall down.
Then again, the attacker might get mad, kill you, then fall down....

Best option: RUN!

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AS,

Also, remember Kancho Ashihara lost one of the twins in a sparring match in his younger years. Yep, the founder of Ashihara Karate tore his penny purse....not a nice thing to happen while sparring.

-B

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Another one bites the dust!! I am only half as likely to get racked now.

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I am only half as likely to get racked now.

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Yes, but you are twice as likely to end up with NUTHING