I like your demonstration of this, along with your no nonsense explanation of how and why the technique works. Good stuff.

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Phoenicius Infinius Infensas thanks for commenting! Appreciate it!

Good video Tom. You are right there are so many subtle aspects to locks. I tend to look at the principles they teach rather than looking at them in isolation. Relating them to weapons is also a great way to get a deeper understanding.

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Aikiflow thank you!

Love the stick tied to the post... don't we all do this!?💓👍😊

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Life, Garden & Hapkido we do 😊

I like this but why dont we see these types of moves in MMA?

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Joe Bob MMA focuses on a small subset of striking techniques - the most robust, simple to implement tools, because they don’t break down under pressure, and they can be executed with gloves. Boxing tools win out in the cage. MMA is a great laboratory for striking skills, but there’s a lot they ignore.

Thanks very much it solve the little gap in aikido wristlock

Hey Tom, Good explanation! I like the application of basic principles to the rope a lot. Got to know your channel because of your rope dart techniques. I really like the application of a belt in self defense, as it is a legal weapon that you carry with yourself most of the time. However, it is rare to find good training material and even more to find a dojo to train that stuff. I think your videos contain the knowledge for an advanced martial artist to easily understand and apply the techniques you use :) I would really appreciate more videos like this! Cheers!

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Denbo3 thanks bud, I appreciate the comment! I’ll try to keep contributing!

Anyone practicing Chen taiji wondering why "three steps backwards" is listed as one of the "moves" of the long form, it is precisely that hand movement that is repeated in that movement. It's not "just" walking backwards.

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Ben Wright yes! 😊

Great video, Tom! Whew! We would have been here sooner, but we’ve been SUPER-busy! We just finished technical shooting on an instructional video about a submission called...I’m not making this up...The Huckleberry. Sounds funny, but this vicious move will tear your arm right out of socket. Love the sash-work-very cool. Don’t you just love the mma questions? Why don’t we see this and that in mma?-LOL! Yeah, like why do we see weight divisions in mma if mma is so real? There are no weight divisions in a real fight...lol...no refs...no medics on stand-by...remember when that one McGregor fight turned into a brawl and McGregor (supposedly one of the baddest dudes on the planet) just stood there and got suckered punched by some chump who jumped into the cage...guess he wasn’t ready for the real thing...it comes fast and unexpected...no one says “Are you ready? Go!” In a real fight...lol. But if there wasn’t a sucker born every minute Dana White’s Pro-Wrestling show would have gone out of business long ago...lol.

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks guys, great to see ya! I appreciate it. And yes, love the MMA questions, lol. The Huckleberry sounds badass! That name literally adds insult to injury. lol.

Enjoyed the video. Evolving what I am glimpsing at over what was popular in movies and such for awhile. A book about Sparta (300), everything about Korea, and Japanese. Japanese specifically what was Bushido and their warrior culture. I feel your the only thing kung fu I will learn from besides Bruce Lee movies.

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Steven DeLoach well done on the deep dive study Steven, it will pay off!

Hi Tom! Enjoy hearing what's on your articulating intelligent mind; thanks for sharing. Keeping my comments brief for a change, the slap in Wing Chun (as you have demonstrated) has many variations and even more duel (and sum) reasonings behind them. As one hard parrying slap, could be used to unbalance and desensitise that area of the arm. Or the parrying slap might be very gentle indeed, where the opponent's bodie's defence mechanism doesn't react instinctively to the threat and is easily slipped and bypassed. The parry might be a sticking one, where the opponent becomes occupied with it and leaving themselves vulnerable in other areas. The parry might just be used for gauging distance and or a reference point, for strategic reasons and purposes. The parry could be used as a springboard effective for a stike or other techniques. The parry could also be used as an Intercepting manoeuvre to interrupt or to knock off course incoming strikes. The shock hit sticking parry, could be used just to cause a reaction to take it further from there on how to precede. As for many the parry is just that, without the need for added deceptive interpretations. As am sure, with my little list, off the top of my head about parrying, is just skimming the surface of this subject, that have been ingrained in to me over the years.

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

JIN TAO AL WING CHUN thanks bud! and indeed, many intercepts in wing Chun! This one is kind of an all-purpose shit-kicker 😃

@starshipdjs7524

4 жыл бұрын

Really Tom from my background, their is no need for me to be doubtful of the effectiveness of your techniques. As easily the concept of a cravate instead of a sash, made with piano wire (or razor wire) attached to two small sticks, in the hands of an expert can become somewhat of a super capable killing machine.

@starshipdjs7524

4 жыл бұрын

More variations of the sash technique shown can be applied with Nunchucks and the two handle wood and wire cheese cutter.

Great Video Tom! Are you still planning on releasing a cane DVD?

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Tyler Blake Art hi Tyler, not any time soon, I’m afraid. But I’ll keep it in mind.

I like these videos, detailed information on trapping with soft weapons is hard to find. I would love to know your thoughts on strategies for soft weapons against other weapons such as a stick or a knife.

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Dantick09 thanks for commenting. I can’t say I have strategies against other weapons. I’m not sure it’s an ideal way to allocate effort/attention for training with this tool, due to the volumes of practice needed to becoming proficient. And depends on the soft weapon material... leather, chain, etc. both can provide shielding and assault against blades, but offer little advantage over sticks, oddly enough. Let me give some thought to see if there are generalities I can come up with!

#$&! Yeah ! Love it.

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Synge Man 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Intetesting concepts. So in essence it looks like you're pulling them slightly off their structure with a cupped hand rather than just grabbing like it can mistakenly appear. That's probably what opens up that little window of time while they're still overextended for you to apply something a bit more technical like a lock & throw, huh?

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

LoneSnivy exactly! It’s hard to see if you’re not looking for it. And it didn’t occur to me to explain the actually trap. You’re right, it’s not a ‘grab’, but more of a heavy loose hand that wraps and sticks on impact. It can be quite painful.

Another great video Tom, I've noticed you pronounce the word "parry" in an interesting way, I'd love to know where you picked that up

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Jimm GreenHarvest thanks. And lol, I didn’t know I pronounced it differently!

The grabbing portion you showed is prominent in Shaolin qi xing and chang hu xinyimen quan that i practice. Are you also a practitioner of these two forms??

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Swapnil kumar not those specifically, but but trained in multiple arts that apply it. 🙏🏻

@swapnilkumar1379

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShaolinRopeDart You should make a video discussing qin na , its reality vs how its shown in those instructional videos.

@iammichael1094

4 жыл бұрын

@@swapnilkumar1379 Reality as my first Hapkido instructor said... you first kick groin or finger jab throat. 😉

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

Swapnil kumar I’ll consider that, thanks. Good Chin na is rare, but when you find it, it’s highly practical.

@swapnilkumar1379

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShaolinRopeDart It is , indeed.

Why don't we see these techniques in MMA?

@ShaolinRopeDart

4 жыл бұрын

rudai123 MMA focuses on a small subset of striking techniques - the most robust, simple to implement tools, because they don’t break down under pressure, and they can be executed with gloves. Boxing tools win out in the cage. MMA is a great laboratory for striking skills, but there’s a lot they ignore.

@rudai123

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShaolinRopeDart tapping wrists/hands up also stop any chance of a wrist lock. But I would still think there would be more trapping techniques in MMA.

@iammichael1094

4 жыл бұрын

@@rudai123 Because trapping is a fine motor skills set that takes years to work under pressure by a select few who are willing to put in the work. In my experience, you will not be catching a boxers punch as it's too fast at the outset. You will have to wait until your opponent tires and throws at a slower pace or you catch it in the guard position by their face. In the end it's a perfect blending of two opponents energies that once in a while will luckily occur in some situations. I have done it once in the street off a push which is slower. This stuff works best after you strike your opponent in a vital area of the neck, eyes, or groin which shuts down their resistance.

@ShaolinRopeDart

3 жыл бұрын

@@rudai123 I’d love to see more as well, but I’ve trained with MMA fighters at times, and the aggression/pace of entry (on their part) can force you to minimize your strategies. If someone is striking you on the street, and they’re not highly trained, trapping can help rapidly control them with minimal damage to both. But if you know that person can/will change levels and integrate feints than trapping can lead to over commitments to the limbs, while missing the core intention. They really just require ALOT of practice.

@ShaolinRopeDart

3 жыл бұрын

@@iammichael1094 great response!

Gonna have to pass on this one bud. Great kata though.

@ShaolinRopeDart

3 жыл бұрын

It’s understandable - this one requires ALOT of drilling and free sparring to be at all relevant. I’d put most of them into the “connoisseur’s” camp.