Wushu Watch: The Dumbest Ideas in Martial Arts
70s London in an image.
Opening Karate Defence and Attack by Keinosuke Enoeda and John Chisholm on a random page, I was treated to this escape from that most dangerous of all holds, the Full Nelson:
Step one, be Full Nelsoned. Step two, stamp on the foot. Step three, grab the groin. You have now escaped the Full Nelson.
Turn the page and there’s nothing. That’s the escape from the Full Nelson. Stamp on the foot, then somehow get your hand down to the attacker’s groin. The very thing which makes the Full Nelson so valuable is that even an untrained boob can keep his victims arms way up in the air and away from his crotch.
Held at gunpoint in your living room? Crescent kick that sucker and send it sliding across the room, then fight the attacker for it.
Or better yet, side kick without putting the foot down.
But it gets better.
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Judo DoJo
Judo (meaning "gentle way") is a modern martial art, combat and Olympic sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano . Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the objective is to either throw or takedown an opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue an opponent with a pin, or force an opponent to submit with a joint lock or a choke. Strikes and thrusts by hands and feet as well as weapons defenses are a part of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms (kata,) and are not allowed in judo competition or free practice. A judo practitioner is called a judoka.
