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.

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.

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.