Looking at Hick’s Law and Martial Arts

My Medusa EWS Instructor Jason Schultz talks about hicks law a lot. A mutual friend brought my attention to that, which is how this video was inspired. You can get ahold of Jason here:
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[@joshuaRR4720]

Another really solid video. Thank you.

[@JoelHuncar]

Thank you!

[@smjohnson1970]

I agree completely. In stressful confrontations, when you have that adrenaline dump, you can't go through a Rolodex of complex techniques to figure out what to do. Your brain and survival instincts won't let you. You need to know a few basic techniques with a high probability of working under a variety of situations. I think as you get more years of experience you can add more techniques like that to your arsenal, but you have to master a few solid techniques under lots of pressure testing and build upon what you know. Great video!

[@JoelHuncar]

Thank you! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@BalkanShipyards]

Well done, I believe in training on striking 4 major organs, head, throat/neck, solar plexus and groin. I'm short, so the low targets are great. The strikes are similar, so the choice comes down to what's open and what's at reach... So yeah, no fancy stuff, yet understand the target... The Force is with you my friend

[@JoelHuncar]

I totally agree with you on that.

[@reflexflow9088]

Great video, and really good point, Guro Joel! It is always better to have a handful of effective techniques than to have a thousand moves that you can't pull off under stress! I personally think the main issue is whatever you're going use in the street has to be practiced thousands and thousands of times to become instinctive and doing a million moves it is almost impossible to give each technique the time for it to become instinctive, that's why simple combinations drilled to death usually works best! Hick Law does make sense!

[@JoelHuncar]

Thank you Sifu!

[@michaelcariaga8512]

👍 Amen

[@JoelHuncar]

Thanks Michael!

[@vyderka]

I believe that it apllies to having too many weapons on you then choosing from this "plethora" of them in a pinch.

[@JoelHuncar]

Absolutely.

[@niallgreene5718]

Watch Michel Mulder and Lee Morrison and then you'll understand their appreciation for Hicks Law.. The way this individual is slicing up the face will land you in jail

[@JoelHuncar]

I really like Lee. I have had many great conversations with the man. You are talking about the same Lee Morrison who rod a joint workshop with Scott Babb, of Libre knife fighting? You do understand this is just showing how the same movement applies to multiple weapons? You also understand that movement without context is just movement? There are cases of individual using knives against assailants where their actions were found to be reasonable to the situaion… as well as other weapons of course. Context dictates the right or wrong action. Movement is movement until it is actually used to do violence. Then how you use a weapon like a knife really does matter. Which is something I discuss in many of my videos. What is murder in one situation may be seen as reasonable force in another. The crux is in how you use a tool not in what tool you use.