What Should We Do If Someone Challenging Us For Duel

Based on my experience and many cases in my country: Never accept any sparring / duel fight challenge outside formal fighting tournament event.

Duel fight challenge in real life is totally different with video game or anime. In real life, there are lot of cheating often done by the challenger.

For examples:

- In 2009, Muay Thai was became trend and booming in my country. Sadly, not all Muay Thai gym owners are good person, many of them also doing ilegal side job as hired thug.

Those bad Muay Thai fighters often challenging other “rival” dojos to show off their “power”. In several cases, they also using iron plate filled Boxing glove or unpadded Boxing glove to kill their opponent (like Luis Resto and Panama Lewis case).

- Many barbarian Silat schools are also often brawls each other on street and ilegal duel fight. In many cases, the dueling fighters often using hidden weapon like pocket knife or spiked ring to piercing their opponent.

- When 1 dueling fighter cornered, his friends will come suddenly (mostly riding motorcycle) and will start attacking the rival school. The duel turn into ordinary gang brawl.

"Then what should we do if someone challenging us for duel?"

- Reject and expel him outside from our dojo. Martial art is just for cardio exercise and self defense.

- If they won’t leave, call the security or police. My Karate sensei doing this once when some Muay Thai thug came to his dojo.

- If those thugs start attacking, then it’s time to show them what we got from our training. It’s self defense situation, of course police will arrest them for assaulting our “private property” first.

Why Forced Mixed - Hybrid Martial Arts Are Bad

There are lot of martial art dojos / schools / organizations which mixing techniques from various unfitting fighting styles into their training nowadays. For examples:

- Teaching Sambo throws and Muay Thai strikes all at once in one training day forcefully.

- Teaching Qin Na jointlocks and Kenpo strikes all at once in one training day forcefully.

- Teaching Karate Kata dances and kickboxing strikes all at once in one training day forcefully.

- Teaching Jujutsu submissions and Karate strikes all at once in one training day forcefully.

- Teaching Aikido throws, Collegiate Wrestling pins and Taekwondo strikes all at once in one training day forcefully.

- Teaching Pencak Silat dances, Wrestling throws and Jeet Kune Do strikes all at once in one training day forcefully.

Well, i will not mention the name of those bad dojos one by one here (too tiring because the are too much nowadays), but you can recognize it by watching how they training at the dojo.

Why (forced mixed) hybrid martial arts are bad for our safety?

Training at force-mixed hybrid dojo is worse than someone who doing cross training at 2 dojos in same time period:

- The students will be confuse because there are no focus - no clear goal in training. In real street fight, they will frozen - can’t do anything because their brain and reflex aren’t trained.

- Overtraining symptoms like confusion, failed to focus and injuries are often happen. Of course because their training duration at dojo is 1-2 hours longer than training duration at normal dojo.

- Wasting time and money for nothing, that another disadvantage from training at those dojos (they often give us expensive training fee to make their dojos looks exclusive).

Bruce Lee once said: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10.000 kicks once, but i fear the man who has practiced 1 kick 10.000 times”. Focus is everything in martial art training.

Focus and concentration are extremely important in martial arts for a variety of reasons, including improved performance, self-defense, and mental discipline. It allows practitioners to execute techniques precisely, respond effectively to opponents, and maintain composure under pressure.

Mastering just 1 useful punching technique is far far better than mastering 100 useless punches.

Self Defense Against Multiple Attackers

There are 2 tricks to survive against multiple attackers, still better than do nothing:

- Hit nearest opponent first, mastering elbow-knee strikes & “dirty tactics” (like pressure point strikes or even bitting) are very helpful.

- Always moving. If you see any chance to escape, then run immediately (fighting is only option when you can’t run).

Dumbbell Training

Dumbbell training can significantly enhance the performance of martial artists by building strength, power, and endurance.

Integrating dumbbell work into a martial arts routine can improve balance, coordination, and explosive power, crucial for striking and grappling.

How to train using Dumbbell:

- Repeat every moves 10 counts repetition slowly. Be careful, start from lightest weight and don’t force yourself.

- If you feel strong enough after training for many weeks, add the count to 20 repetition.

- If you feel stronger enough, add the count again to 30 repetition.

- And if you feel stronger enough, the you can switch / add to heavier Dumbbell (don’t add the weight too much, don’t force yourself). 30 repetition is maximum count to doing weightlifting training effectively.

My Martial Art Background & Reason Why I Love Martial Art

People often asking about my martial art style, they also often asking how i know so many martial art theories.

I started my training since 5 years old, here the complete list of my martial art training experiences:

- 1996: Taekwondo.

- 2003: Karate Kata (focus on martial dance choreos / Kata).

- 2006: Karate (focus on fighting tournament / Kumite).

- 2009: Aikido & Kenpo (the dojo have 2 classes, i learn them both).

- 2012: Boxing, Kickboxing & Muay Thai (the club have 3 classes, i learn them all).

- 2017: Jeet Kune Do.

Outside of those dojos, i also learn other arts from my friends, open training - seminar events and various tutorials from internet. Like Kungfu, Kuntao, Wei Kuen Do, Tui Shou, Catch Wrestling and more.

Why i love martial art so much?

As 90s kid, i was raised by various martial art themed media on wuxia TV shows, video game, tokusatsu, anime and manga.

 

 

 

Not only for hobby, martial art is needed for survival here. Crime rate in my country is very high, the only way to survive is all people work and fight together to protect our town, village and neighborhood (especially to protect our children, we also teach self defense to our children).

My dream is watching all children live peacefully, play happily, healthy and also strong like Arale Chan and Ninja Hattori (my childhood heroes).

Vital Point Targets

These several easy vital point targets you can hit to knock your opponent fast.

Many of those pressure points (like throat, bladder and testicles) are very weak and can cause fatal injury if getting hit, so those weak points aren't allowed to be struck in fighting sport tournament.

1. Punches

2. Kicks

3. Elbow & Knee Strikes

4. Pressure Point Strikes