'I would kick the groin if I run into a boxer.' 'I would just eye jab or even eye gouge a wrestler or the BJJ guy.' 'I would simply bite the better grappler to get him off.' I would box a wrestler and bjj the thai boxer....', and so on.
How many times we have heard all these! The issue is not statements such as the ones mentioned above, but the idea behind them, which says: there is a quick fix for all fighters. The idea used to be that I do something that the other guy doesn't know. The problem is we are not living during the 1970's! The fighting arts have evolved and many many people are well cross-trained. We have evolved from the old decades of being technique and system-centered creatures, to being top athletic fighters, [with] laser-focused mindsets. I understand that biting a good wrestler may well get him off and makes him react to it, but it wouldn't stop his ultimate intent in an all out fight if he really determined to hurt you. To bite effectively against a wrestler you better have some decent wrestling skills first. To kick a boxer in the groin is not just simply picking up your foot and kicking him, but having good distance control, foot work, and an impeccable timing and rhythm, which means training and sparring for many hours in just applying your hands and feet with the mindset of [timing and touch] and not necessarily burying the literal groin shot, or literally eye jabbing or biting your training partner (not practical or realistic). What we are saying is that groin shot in itself is not the problem-solver or the magic----- the magic is, have you sparred 1000's of hrs, sharpening your [timing and touch]------which means have you trained continuously and safely (so we don't go to hospital every time we spar), WHILE having your partner fully resisting you! It's not difficult to understand that IF I can touch your nose with my fist during a full on sparring session, then in all probability I can touch your eyes with my fingers! If during the full on sparring I can touch your inguinal with my foot, then most likely I can touch and impact your groin with my feet! If I can stabilize a good solid cross-control on the ground then I am certain I can also bite you from there. If we have not developed the necessary skills and attributes in repeatable, full resistance, safe sparring sessions, then talking about the so called deadly groin shot, eye jab and biting, is just a hypothesis, a supposition, only an idea that would most certainly disappoint us in a street fight situation! Imagining something that appears to be effective is only half the game, then the other half is practical training under full resistance.
Keep in mind also, that in a street fight, naturally a boxer knowing it's a street fight and not a boxing match---- would not keep the normal boxing range---maybe because instinctively he or she knows that other weapons (kicking, take downs, etc) may well be used! I don't think Mike Tyson trained the art of Kinamutai, yet as a professional boxer, we observe that it wasn't difficult for him to take a piece of ear off. His success of the bite wasn't the bite itself, but the fact that he could, as a boxer, safely get inside the pocket close enough to bite. Now that required excellent skills of boxing, but the bite itself was just a simple by-product. It's the same with eye jabs and groin shots.
In conclusion, I like to say that the actual [execution] of dirty stuff cannot realistically be trained on a daily basis anyway or even in one [training] session, and we can only [assume] what could happen when you implement them. In the mean time, the nasty stuff by themselves cannot be an adequate qualifier without the raw skills-development which would require safe blunt training with fully resisting training partners---over and over again, thousands of times. If we don't train the fundamentals of skill development first, which should commingled with fully resisting partners, who are, by the way doing the same thing to us simultaneously, then I have to say that our grand ideas are just a series of conjectures and assumptions, and nothing else!
Without a full spectrum of attributes- development, JKD guys should never bank on the dirty techniques! The dirty stuff are just by-product choices of a fully trained man or a woman, and should never take precedence over athletic development. If you have to use them, it's understandable, but you should [never] preoccupy majority of your time and energy on hypothetical conjectures. Any bum can be dirty-----instead utilize your time on critical skills and "don't waste yourself".
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SHAHRAM MOOSAVI