Long Pole Fighting

Long pole is variation of long staff fighting technique where the fighter hold the staff/spear on the lower end position, to make it striking reach longer than basic middle grip position. Similar with short staff and two handed sword holding technique.

It has same fighting technique with long spears and often used as training / competition weapon by ancient spearmen worldwide.

Can Open Handed Fighting Styles Work With Boxing Glove?

People often asking this:

“Can open handed fighting styles like Kungfu, Kuntao, Silat or Koppo work with Boxing glove?”

Boxing glove is still number one choice choosen by most fighting tournament organizers because this fighting glove model is safest. Unlike opened fingers glove model used in MMA events, Boxing glove very helpful to prevent any cheats like eye gouge, throat chop or hair pulling.

See these photos taken from Silat - kungfu - Kuntao fighting tournaments, they use Boxing glove without any problem right?

And the price is cheaper, seriously!! Although it looks bigger than MMA glove, the fact is a Boxing glove design requires less material and stitching, it balloon shaped padding is also cheaper and softer.

How To Fight With Long Dress & Tight Skirt

Many people often ask me this:

"How to do Takewondo kicks while wearing long dress/tight skirt?".

Martial arts which focus on high kicks like Taekkyon, Karate or Savate were created in the countries where their women historically wore trouser (like in Northern China) or loose skirt (like in France, Japan and Korea) that allow them to doing high kicks like these:

Meanwhile, martial arts which focus on hand strikes and low kicks like Boxing, Nanpai Kungfu and Hokkien Kuntao were created in the countries where their people historically wore long dress or robe. Can’t do high kicks? No problem:

As Taekwondo, Kickboxing and Hokkien Kuntao practitioner myself, i will honest:

- Taekwondo (kicking style) have longer reach and powerful kicks, but it’s close range combat skill very horrible. Good for long range, bad for close range.

- Hokkien Kuntao (punching style) have shorter reach and weaker strikes, but it’s close range combat skill very good. Good for close range, bad for long range.

- Kickboxing (balanced striking style) teach both punches and kicks 50:50 portion but the striking power is not 100% perfect if compared with martial arts that train punching or kick focusly. It have half quality of leg fighting and half quality of hand fighting.

So the conclusion is:

- Punching style martial arts like Boxing and Kuntao are best choice for self defense while wearing long dress and tight skirt.

- Balanced striking style martial arts like Kickboxing and Karate are still good, but their close range technique are limited and far far fewer than real close range combat arts.

Why Bouncing Footwork Is Useless In Real Fight

Bouncing Footwork is a martial art footwork technique where the fighter standing on the front toes and do skipping-like jump. This technique began it popularity since 90s where lot of Korean Taekwondo think this footwork make their mobility more agile.

Sadly, Bouncing Footwork isn’t work for real street fight on in open MMA tournament events. Why?

In Taekwondo tournaments, kicking opponent’s leg isn’t permitted, thats why Taekwondo fighters aren’t worry to using this footwork at their own events. In open MMA events where you will fight against opponents from various dojos like Muay Thai-Kungfu-Kickboxing-Silat or event Brazilian Jujutsu, they will strike your leg and you will fall.

In real street fight, you will fight 2-3 attackers. In Taekwondo tournament, Bouncing Footwork is consume lot of your stamina and breath, imagine if you ran out of breath while fighting 3 thugs and also have no power left in your body to escape. The End.

Look how Muay Thai and Karate fighters move. No bouncing, no skipping, no stamina wasting and they are ready against leg kicks.