A Must Have Self Defense Technique

[@sjd7810]

In any striking art a good understanding of footwork ( and having good footwork) is pretty damned essential and, IMO, one that is greatly overlooked ( particularly in my area of expertise in Wing Chun). Regardless of your background the guys here make excellent points 👍 I'd also say to go take a look at 52 blocks... Their footwork is incredible

[@tonyjepson6035]

Ever seen a fight in a packed pub ? Amazing how much space suddenly seems to appear. Footwork and balance are everything.

[@terrynichols4614]

Very good explanation and counter to practice before doing Forms. My Form comes out of nowhere & my body twist back & sideways 1/2 step ( because I know they are faster& hit harder) and SURPRISE SURPRISE the strong man!

[@ab5olut3zero95]

It took you months to teach me decent footwork. Been practicing JKD, after you taught me, for over a decade. I still practice these fundamentals. Thanks Jason n Aaron!

[@JKDandWingChun]

Great to hear from ya, Torrey. Those were some great days back then...and a much smaller school than I used to have. Anyway, glad you’re watching and thanks for your continued service too.

[@johnluongo4230]

Simple and to the point. Excellent. Balance, footwork, distance, timing and accuracy. Every sport requires it. Every self defense technique also.

[@jamesbrick250]

Glad to be one of the first few to watch this 😁

[@JEM-fo6rs]

Really Good video, so glad you mentioned footwork with the jab, very important step. It’s those subtle footwork adjustments that common folk just do see or get. I often tell my guys “ be just out of range, but in range”. I’m just referring to the footwork you just used. Slight back half steps and shuffle steps are huge in the right hands.

[@benjaminpujols1914]

Yeah I agree shuffling moving around is very hard takes a lot of cardio a lot of muscle strength little tiny muscle fibers that we normally don't use so you definitely have to train just for footwork alone let alone anything else to add to it

[@kevionrogers2605]

Footwork is so fundamental that some of my instructors that was the first thing we worked, because it is the noble gentle art of self-defense and it is the displacements of the body with the footwork that is the foundation of defense whether with the mitten, boot, baton, jacket, cane, cudgel, staff, sword, or saber. It was from saber fencing that helped me to figure out how to use karate blocks and Arnis that gave me the reaction timing. Boxing tied all of the theories into a relatively safe practice, which allows one to experiment with them. Though from my experience with striking arts is that it allows some with higher pain tolerances to not appreciate the footwork, which is why I still think that st least a season of Fencing and Greco-roman wrestling are idea to condition the fundamental theories of self-defense into a person. Wing Chun Kuen, Boxing are the meta-skill set between Fencing & Greco-Roman Wrestling, so if you understand the limits then you can appreciate and define the intermediate skill sets better.

[@mikeruddell6091]

Another great keep it simple lesson.

[@DarkAristocrat]

I love this. I also agree that the key to successful defense - and offense for that matter is good and proper footwork. Sure you can train to take hits in MMA and boxing, but in street situations, we should train not to get hit at all, and footwork is the way to do that.

[@royakard8536]

The key to any successful fighting strategy is simplicity. On the streets you'll be counted lucky if that much works under stress and or surprise.

[@jimmiefloydjr8945]

Very good Sifu

[@ibrahimmuhammedakoob6017]

Great video, this is basic footwork yet very important in any fight. The idea of hopping is a very bad idea especially if fighting someone with good kicking and sweeping ability, and you probably don't know the skill set of your apponent in a street fight. That is why this technique works.

[@warriorstkdify]

Great insight, thanks Sifu

[@sankizm2923]

Again superb stuff Sifu. 🙏

[@ramondiaz2851]

Footwork is the essence of combat!!!

[@ruiseartalcorn]

Awesome stuff! :)

[@ramondiaz2851]

I learned that push shuffle from Ron Balicki's videos of JKD.

[@SenseiEmmett]

Love when it's done slowly he's spot on, but then they move around a bit light sparring and the training partner is landing 3 times more punches 😂 but I do agree footwork is important

[@petertsui888888]

In a lift but will improve my footwork

[@gematriot]

So much stuff to notice... :P

[@starshipdjs7524]

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[@TonyqTNT]

That's why the late Bruce Lee had the rear heel raised so he could be so agile with the rear foot!!!

[@arthurwatts1680]

'Stupid stuff' is pretty much ALL I've seen in real world street fights, and I've yet to see anyone in a demonstration replicate how ridiculous a lot of it really is. People literally running in to throw a punch or kick then back-pedalling as quickly as possible to avoid getting hit themselves. A bizarre 'lean back while throwing a haymaker' attack that often connects with some unfortunate's head, and the list goes on. Alcohol plays a big part in it, but increasingly its a group of gutless wonders attacking one or two people and that's completely un-Australian. We've progressively deteriorated to the point where you can see virtually anything that happens on the worst cities in the US and Europe repeated in one of our cities within weeks of the footage appearing on the news. I get that training requires the development of good technique but just as important is the ability to keep your head while people are screaming obscenities and trying to emulate a gang attack in LA or wherever.

[@philjchow]

Is it better to shuffle back at an angle or straight back? I would think at an angle?

[@kevionrogers2605]

It matters if they are charging, lunging, or dashing forward. If the foe is conservative with their strike then all that matter is to get out of the arc get out of range. It is the same principle that allows the snap back (a slip that goes straight back) to work.

[@sbdr.1241]

With all due respect where im from a 1 on 1 fight is as rare as hitting the multimillion lottery, its always 1 vs 5, 10+ if you cant fight dirty you'll be carried out by emt's guaranteed.

[@smiley-qb3nt]

Which makes footwork even more important

[@rne02]

The day that muggers, murders and rapists get into a fighting stance and agree to spar with their victims to see who is the most skilled fighter is the day you should begin teaching self defence. Until you should stop because you quite clearly have absolute no understand what-so-ever of the realities of criminal violence. What you are doing is taking the violence you do understand (skilled martial artists agreeing to take part in consensual fights in the ring) and then pretending that this is how criminals will attack, so that you can pretend your solutions to consensual fighting is also the solution for criminal violence. It is not. Criminals do not fight their victims because the two things criminals most fear are getting caught and getting hurt. Instead they will use deception, they will approach their intended victim and ask for directions, or for the time, and then when you are distracted they attacked with non-telegraphed pre emptive strikes that will take you out of the game before you even realised you were playing. When you are laid in the street regaining consciousness after being blindsided there will be no doubt who is the better fighter, it is you, but he was the better criminal, and criminal violence is NOT the same as men agree to tae part in a fight. You will not get a chance to use your fancy footwork, as he will not get into a fighting stance and warn you he is going to hit you. Further if YOU have time to get into a fighting stance, then you have time to leave, and therefore by deciding to stay and fight you are no longer legally defending yourself as you have chosen to take part in a consensual fight. Men agreeing to take part in fights in the street to settle arguments over women, beer, money or parking spaces has absolutely NOTHING to do with self defence. Self defence is legal, street fighting is illegal. So as well as not understanding the realities of criminal violence, you also do not understand self defence law. Therefore you should stop teaching what you clearly do not understand. Teaching marital arts in jeans is not teaching self defence. Teaching men how to win consensual street fights is not self defence, pretending that criminals will attack in the same way your training partner does in the dojo or the ring during a sparring session is not teaching self defence. Educate yourself:- THE FIVE THINGS MARTIAL ARTISTS GET WRONG ABOUT SELF DEFENCE kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2jJe2yQod-KnLM