Dirty Ground: The Tricky Space Between Sport and Combat
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Dirty Ground: The Tricky Space Between Sport and Combat
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Overview
If you fight, you fight for a goal and you fight in an environment.
In a sport environment you want to win quickly and decisively, with solid assurances that your opponent will be able to get up and compete again tomorrow.
In a combat environment you also want to win quickly and decisively, but with solid assurances that your adversary cannot get up and re-engage.
In the tricky space between sport and combat, termed "drunkle" (a commingling of the words drunk and uncle), you may be wrangling an out-of-control friend or relative, someone you need to restrain but do not want to injure. This puts the responsibility of their safety entirely on you.
Understanding these environments is vital! Appropriate use of force is codified in law and any actions that do not accommodate these rules can have severe repercussions. Your martial art techniques must be adapted to best fit the situation at hand.
The authors analyze 30 fundamental strikes, kicks and locks, and present 12 well-known sport competition forms modified for each of the three vital environments: Sport, Drunkle, and Combat.
Be Smart. Know how to adapt.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781594392115 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | YMAA Publication Center |
| Publication date: | 05/01/2013 |
| Pages: | 176 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.50(d) |
About the Author
Though now retired from Judo competition, while active in the sport Kris competed on the national and international level. He has traveled to Japan and Okinawa to train in karate and has authored several books on the martial arts, including co-authoring The Way of Kata. He has also written guest chapters for other martial arts authors and has had articles published in Traditional Karate, a magazine out of the U.K. with international readership. Kris also hosts the annual Martial University, a seminar composed of multidisciplinary martial artists, and he regularly instructs at seminars.
Kris lives in Seattle, Washington with his son Jackson.
Lawrence is the best-selling author of nine books.
A founding technical consultant to University of New Mexico’s Institute of Traditional Martial Arts, he also has written numerous articles on martial arts, self-defense, and related topics for prestigious publications such as the International Ryukyu Karate-jutsu Research Society Journal, Jissen, Fighting Arts, and Traditional Karate magazine.
Since 1970, Lawrence has studied and taught traditional Asian martial arts, medieval European combat, and modern close-quarter weapon techniques. During the 26 years he worked stadium security part-time he was involved in hundreds of violent altercations, but got paid to watch football. He is currently a senior strategist at an aerospace company where he gets to play with billions of dollars of other people’s money and make really important decisions. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his son Joey and wife Julie.
Table of Contents
Dedication v
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword Rory Miller ix
Foreword Marc MacYoung xiii
Why This Book? 1
What You Will Find in This Book 3
The Origins of This Book 3
What Will Be Covered Here 4
The Challenges of This Book 4
Who is This Book for? 5
Stand-up Fighters 5
Grapplers 5
Sport versus Combat 7
Drunkles, Druggies, Dysfunctional Relatives, and Whacked-Out Friends 11
The Morality of Fighting 15
Ability 17
Opportunity 18
Jeopardy 18
Preclusion 18
Levels of Force 19
Ethical Self-Defense 20
Justification 21
A Highly Selective Overview of Combative Arts throughout History 23
The Battlefield 24
Pankration 25
Mongolian Wrestling, Bökh 28
Indian Wrestling, Kushti 29
Burns, Gotch, and Hackenschmidt 30
Jack Dempsey, Boxer 33
Jujitsu 34
Judo 34
Samozashchita Bez Oruzhiya (Sambo) 36
Dry Fire (or How to Get Good Faster, Better, and if not Cheaper at least Mori Effectively) 37
Entry 41
The Boxer 42
The Wrestler 42
Daylight Dracula (or Hiji Ate) 43
Macro Bicallis 45
The Scientific Method 47
Finding the Fighter's Nature 50
Finding Your Fighting Nature: A Test 51
Notes on Running to/from 52
The Techniques and Degrees of Force 55
Arms and Hands 57
Head 62
Legs and Feet 63
Small Joint Manipulations 69
Grappling Techniques in Sport, Drunkle, and Combat 71
Osoto Gari 71
Ko Uchi Gari 76
Osoto Gake 82
Head and Arm Drag 87
Hammerlock/Front Chancery 93
Clothesline 97
Ogoshi 102
Uchi Mata 107
Sukui Nage 111
Hammerlock 117
Ude Hishigi Waki Gatame 122
Whizzer 127
Conclusion 133
Glossary 135
Bibliography 137
Index 139
About the Authors 143