| The most commom mistakes martial artists make in the ring? | | Out of the December Black Belt Magazine - What are your thoughts????
1/ Predictable technique selection
2/ Signaling your opponent
3/ Hacking away without reacting to your opponent
4/ Not using fakes well
5/ Staying out of range
6/ Throwing complicated techniques for no reason
7/ Attacking with no potential for damage
Does anyone have any more to add?
What types of techniques have you found to be tried and tested in the ring?
Can anyone add any remedies to the above 'common mistakes'?
J
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| | I also thought that 'pacing' oneself to be important. If you go flat out at the beginning and get blocked with not many positive scoring aspects, you may get a little fatigued in the later parts of the rounds? Nothing worse than ending up 'out on your feet' when there is still a lot of time left in the round, suddenly your technique is not so sound and your defenses can open up.
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| | One of the things I think is quite often a big issue is that people don't use combinations or set ups properly, rather they just throw a bunch of individual techniques. If you throw a technique and it gets blocked or missed you must be prepared to get going with something else, another technique and then another and so on until you do get that clean scoring shot.
I guess that's really a combination of 1, 3, 4 and 6. 6 In particular as I've regularly seen fighters throw something like a spinning heel out of the blue with nothing before it and nothing after it, basically just seems like wasted energy unless it has been set up. Now slightly more bruised than before. |
| | 8/ Too concerned about not blocking an attack. You can't block every attack. You just need to ensure that you come back with an attck even if you don't block your opponent's attack. |
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