I cannot, for the life of me, ever convince anyone that KM is bullshit. If you can't spar and you can't compete, you will freeze up and spaz out if you ever had to use it in a real situation. If it really came time to gouge someone's eye 1) eyes are really small if it's already tricky to punch someone's head 2) you'll really upset someone if you miss 3) you'd probably hesitate once you made contact because YOU DONT PRACTICE IT. Same with the groin. Every minute of KM practice is better spent on BJJ or Muay Thai, but also consider other alternatives if you need to defend yourself. Opportunities to use martial arts are so incredibly rare compared to situations that you can walk, run, diffuse, be with a group, give up your wallet, etc.
To my understanding no. I know nobody is going to spar groin kicks and eye gouges. They might do kickboxing and grappling depending on the gym, maybe even those mock knives and guns. Personally, I don't put much stock into martial arts against weapons and kickboxing is better done at a kickboxing gym - there'd be less woowoo and "yeah, that wouldn't have worked cause I would have ripped your balls off"
I cannot, for the life of me, ever convince anyone that KM is bullshit. If you can't spar and you can't compete, you will freeze up and spaz out if you ever had to use it in a real situation. If it really came time to gouge someone's eye 1) eyes are really small if it's already tricky to punch someone's head 2) you'll really upset someone if you miss 3) you'd probably hesitate once you made contact because YOU DONT PRACTICE IT. Same with the groin. Every minute of KM practice is better spent on BJJ or Muay Thai, but also consider other alternatives if you need to defend yourself. Opportunities to use martial arts are so incredibly rare compared to situations that you can walk, run, diffuse, be with a group, give up your wallet, etc.
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Wait, they dont spar?
To my understanding no. I know nobody is going to spar groin kicks and eye gouges. They might do kickboxing and grappling depending on the gym, maybe even those mock knives and guns. Personally, I don't put much stock into martial arts against weapons and kickboxing is better done at a kickboxing gym - there'd be less woowoo and "yeah, that wouldn't have worked cause I would have ripped your balls off"