originally published July 22nd 2015 https://www.facebook.com/notes/fcs-israel/fighting-and-footwork-in-short-go-learn-to-dance/1179025955457813
The most important thing in fighting is movement, aka footwork.
Standing up, you need three fighting stances:
Largo (long range)
Medio (medium range)
Corto (short range)
You need to move fluently in each, and fluently moving from one to the other. Short weapon, long weapon, blade, blunt, improvised…. You need fluidity in three stances, moving in each and moving fluently from one to another. As every decent entry level BJJ student can tell you – it is not the positions but moving from one to the other that gives dominance.
What kind of footwork? What kind of stances? Those that fits you, fits your body and fits your mechanics and balance. You need to have balance. You need to move easily 360°. It has to correspond with the weapon/range you are fighting in and you need to move within and from one to the other as easy as you leisurely stride down a street. And… you need to train the shit out of it. If your arms move so fast, your feet cannot keep up, you may look impressive, but…. you are not good. Train the shit out of your footwork – and try to make it fun… hint: there is a reason why there is dance in all ancient fighting cultures. Bye the way if you cannot dance (i.e., move fluently with/to a bit)…then your footwork sucks….well I’ll put it nicer: “needs more work”. Salsa, hip hop, break-dance, ballroom, jazz, whatever, if you don't dance learn how to. It'll do wonders to your combatives footwork
However much theory about fighting ranges (3 ranges, 4 ranges, 5, 7, 9 ranges and if you add drone attacks and ballistic missiles then 11 or 12 range) – you need 3 fighting stances – largo – medio – corto. Everything else is a small variation of each or transitioning from one to the other (e.g., your pistol stance should correspond with your corto stance….). If it is not simple, it simply will not happen; if you have 17 fighting stances – cool. It is just not going to work, not in a rink, not on the street. However, you will look very cool in a demo.
Oh and in case I forgot to mention – train the shit out of your footwork. And do try make it fun.
The most important thing in fighting is movement, aka footwork.
Standing up, you need three fighting stances:
Largo (long range)
Medio (medium range)
Corto (short range)
You need to move fluently in each, and fluently moving from one to the other. Short weapon, long weapon, blade, blunt, improvised…. You need fluidity in three stances, moving in each and moving fluently from one to another. As every decent entry level BJJ student can tell you – it is not the positions but moving from one to the other that gives dominance.
What kind of footwork? What kind of stances? Those that fits you, fits your body and fits your mechanics and balance. You need to have balance. You need to move easily 360°. It has to correspond with the weapon/range you are fighting in and you need to move within and from one to the other as easy as you leisurely stride down a street. And… you need to train the shit out of it. If your arms move so fast, your feet cannot keep up, you may look impressive, but…. you are not good. Train the shit out of your footwork – and try to make it fun… hint: there is a reason why there is dance in all ancient fighting cultures. Bye the way if you cannot dance (i.e., move fluently with/to a bit)…then your footwork sucks….well I’ll put it nicer: “needs more work”. Salsa, hip hop, break-dance, ballroom, jazz, whatever, if you don't dance learn how to. It'll do wonders to your combatives footwork
However much theory about fighting ranges (3 ranges, 4 ranges, 5, 7, 9 ranges and if you add drone attacks and ballistic missiles then 11 or 12 range) – you need 3 fighting stances – largo – medio – corto. Everything else is a small variation of each or transitioning from one to the other (e.g., your pistol stance should correspond with your corto stance….). If it is not simple, it simply will not happen; if you have 17 fighting stances – cool. It is just not going to work, not in a rink, not on the street. However, you will look very cool in a demo.
Oh and in case I forgot to mention – train the shit out of your footwork. And do try make it fun.
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