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 and European Sport Karate fighters 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 and Sport Karate 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 traditional Karate fighters move. No bouncing, no skipping, no stamina wasting and they are ready against leg kicks.

Pro Wrestling

Professional Wrestling/Pro Wrestling/Lucha Libre is a form of athletic - action theater art show centered around mock combat, with the premise that its the artists/performers are competitive wrestlers. The concept is similar with Wushu Taolu, using choreograped martial art/fighting moves for art performance show.

Professional wrestling did not have one single creator, it grew from 19th century European carnivals and traveling circus - theatre shows. The trio Pro Wrestling promoters known as The Gold Dust Trio (Ed "Strangler" Lewis, Billy Sandow and Toots Mondt) was important figures who revolutionized Pro Wrestling in the 1920s into modern sports entertainment we knew today.

Why 100 Chain Punches Doesn't Work In Real Fight

First, this technique created for aesthetic purpose, for action movies, for action theatre show or cartoon - video game choreos. Be logic!! Be realistic!!

Second, it powerless and the opponent feel no any pain because without you realizing it, your arm muscles are become limp by their own to produce a rapid continuous chain punches. You can’t do those punches with strong muscles.

Third, the opponent also can countering you with KO strike, you ruin your own defense.

Fourth, it wasting your stamina for nothing. In real street fight you will fight 2-3 other thugs, imagine if you ran out energy after tap-tap-tap-tapping just 1 thug and you ran out energy to fight other thugs or escape. You will be killed!!

In real Kungfu or Boxing fight, 2-3 punches combo is maximum numbers normal human can do in real fight. Even 1 accurate punch is far far better and realistic.

Sport Karate

Sport Karate (スポーツ空手) is modern sport version of Karate which created for fighting sport tournament.

Japan Karate Association (JKA) established the first structured Sport Karate competition rules in 1964. Unlike traditional Karate which more focus on hand strikes and self defense, the training syllabus in Sport Karate teach both punches and kicks balancedly without deadly techniques (like Back Chop and Chop Swing) imitating the concept of Indian Sport Kickboxing basic syllabus.

The Difference Between Jab Punch & Cross Punch

Simple, both punches are same linear straight punch type but they have different range.

Jab/Lead Hand Straight Punch used for long range punch, it has longer reach like this.

Cross/Rear Hand Punch used for short range punch, it has shorter reach but very useful when you can’t launch a Jab Punch.

Same answer with the different between Round Kick and Hook Kick, both kicks are same horizontal swing kick type but their range are different.

Hook Kick/Lead Swing Kick used for long range.

Round Kick/Rear Swing Kick used for close range.

Why Object Breaking Is Useless In Real Fight

Object Breaking/Board Breaking/Brick Breaking/Tameshiwari (whatever they call it, it just same circus-attraction thing) is a show off demonstration where the “Martial Master” destroying the hard object using their “Kung Flu”.

Will it work for real fight? No!!

First, they use cheap and weak materials for their show off circus. If you challenge them to destroying a wall/building/tree with their “Kung Flu”, of course they can’t.

Second, they place the targets on special position so they can break in easier. Like giving a space on every stack of objects and place the object below their hip line so they can swing their strike longer and more powerful.

Third, even if they feel any pain (or their mental reject the pain sensation/lying to themself delusionally after listening their sensei’s delusional teaching), their blood vessel and other internal organs inside their hand won’t lie:

Fourth, this training is waste more money to buy those materials.

Rather than wasting your times-stamina-money to learn useless technique, why you didn’t use your precious time to learn real useful techniques instead? Like Blocking, Trapping or Intercepting?

No wonder why most martial art schools won’t teach this, wasting time and money. Like Bruce Lee and Bolo Yeung said:

Firefighter’s Door Breaking training is totally different. They use different techniques, special equipment and they didn’t hurt their own body.