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aikido and daito ryu seminar this weekend!
Bruise competition!
Reblog with a photo or description of your best martial arts bruise and how you got it.
I present to you,
The first time I broke my foot (left):
and the second time I broke my foot (right):
Both were earned by tripping on my own feet.
OMG those are huge bruises, that must’ve hurt 😱
Every time I train for competitions I end up with big dark bruises on my hips from all the falls (so many falls), those are the most impressive and constant on my body
Second most impressive might be this one from last year’s nationals
It was such a dumb hit I don’t even know how it got so big 😅
The funniest one I have is this one that looks like a face 😂
I always joke that it’s the face I make when I realize I have to roll out of technique 😂 I’m pretty sure I got that bruise from rolling, too 😂
I’ll join in with the foot bruises! My broken toe from aikido :))
And some leg and arm bruises from shorinji kenpo!!
Bruise competition!
Reblog with a photo or description of your best martial arts bruise and how you got it.
I spend a fair amount of time teaching women to kick men in the balls, and I’ve learned that this activity tends to generate controversy. Here, according to actual adults who have actually said these things to me, are some reasons you should not kick a guy in the balls:
1. It will make him angry.
I should hope so. I’m not sending him a friend request. If I kick him hard enough, there’s a good chance I’ll render him unable to act upon his anger. That’s my goal. His feelings are his problem.
2. It will make him hurt you worse.
Statistics say otherwise. And anyway, he’s already demonstrated his desire to hurt me. Why should I give him carte blanche to decide how much he’s going to hurt me? I’d rather be an active participant in that decision-making process.
3. Groin kicks aren’t really that devastating; I’ve seen lots of guys get hit in the balls and it hardly fazed them.
This response (almost universally from men) is so common I’ve come to think of it as “groinsplaining”—you can see it many of the YouTube comments in the videos linked above. These people rarely volunteer to demonstrate their own iron balls in a real kicking situation, but they confidently assert that men in general can shrug off all kinds of damage to the groin. All I can say is, I’ve seen two-year-olds take down grown men via the groin, and toddlers don’t even have any training. I do. I like my odds.
4. We shouldn’t be teaching people how to kick men in the balls; we should be teaching men not to do anything that would make us have to kick them in the balls.
Hey, that’s a great idea! Do you have a detailed, research-based plan for teaching all men everywhere to behave themselves all the time? And do you have funding for your efforts, and buy-in from politicians and community leaders, and a network of trained, experienced instructors who can effect this change? If not, better get started on your grant proposal. In the meantime, I’ll just be over here teaching people how to kick guys in the balls. That’s what I do.
5. Telling people they should kick an assailant in the balls is the same as telling victims who didn’t kick their assailant in the balls that they did something wrong.
No, it isn’t. It’s a practical way to reduce the number of future victims by giving them more viable options to disrupt and survive an assault.
Fact: We have the power to damage the bodies of men who try to hurt us. You’re saying we shouldn’t let people use that power. I’m offering people more choices; you’re trying to take them away.
6. Kicking a guy in the balls just makes the world a more violent place.
Maybe, in the short term. But if it stops him from killing someone, or putting them in the hospital, isn’t that a net win for non-violence? The Dalai Lama thinks so.
One in four women will have good reason to kick a guy in the balls at some point in her life. Luckily, it’s not rocket science. Anyone can do it! And ball-kicking’s efficacy is beyond dispute, as the men of MMA so nobly helped us illustrate here. Gentlemen, if any of you are reading this, and conscious: Cheers, and get well soon (the non-wife-beaters among you, anyway).
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okay, so!
There is a trick to it. You do NOT want to soccer kick the dude because that’s a little projectile aiming at a littler target.
It’ll do in a pinch, and it’ll hurt, but it won’t incapacitate, which is what you want. You don’t want “ouch!” Or even “FUCK!”
You want him puking on the floor, and this is how we do:
There’s two ranges where a groin kick works: close and mid-range.
Say someone grabs you face to face, or pins you to the wall, and your hands are blocked. Now you’re close-range. What do you do? You come in closer, as close as you can, and with every ounce of adrenaline and aggression in your body, you do a can-can kick.
You know the first step in the can-can, where you raise your knee up as high as it’ll go as strong as you can?
Do that, as hard as you can, repeatedly.
If that doesn’t work, here’s the alternative. You’re going to take your hand, grasp between the thighs underhand. Its going to feel like you’re “cradling” the testicles. Dig your fingertips into the fragile skin BEHIND the scrotum. Then, once you have a good grip, you turn your hand into a vise, with your fingers digging inwards to the material. If you do it right, you should feel the testes INSIDE the scrotum. You want, whenever possible, to hook your fingers under them.
Then, with your hands in a claw and your fingertips latched behind the testes, you turn your hand sharply, as though you were turning a doorknob. Simultaneously, haul your elbow back and up as hard as you can.
If done properly, this technique can tear the scrotal tissue, and done with enough force, can tear the testes out of your attacker’s body.
No matter HOW pissed he is, he’s gonna drop. I’ve tried this technique on guys wearing cups and even with protection, it is not a fun feeling.
If you’re mid-range and have enough room for a kick, the goal becomes to use your shin. The shin is actually called the tibia, which ounce for ounce is one of the strongest bones in your body. So, here’s what you do, my little bloodthirsty beaus:
You aim, you scream “DO NOT COME CLOSER I SAID NO!” (legal purposes, because now you’re officially exercising your right to self-defence). Maintain a 360 degree awareness, just in case he has friends, and then, when he’s close enough, connect your shin full on soccer kick with the delicate squish of his testicles.
What you want is as much upwards force as possible in combination with as much momentum as you can manage. When he collapses, which he will, then stomp on his groin again, and then run.
The latter has less of a trick to it. It’s primarily about momentum and force.
Remember, if you’re close enough to put your hands on him, use your knee. If he’s coming at you, use your shin.
If you can smell the nachos he had for dinner, rip his fucking balls off.
It’s easy to do, they’re tiny little squishiness wrapped in a delicate flap of skin about as thin as a toenail.
Remember: if he’s coming at you, he’s ALREADY out to hurt you. Might as well give the fucker a reason to be pissed.
How to Kick a Guy in the Balls: An Illustrated Guide
Someone once told me that the way to train a proper knee in the groin (with appropriate aggression if you want to hurt him enough to let you go is to train and act as if you’re not aiming your knee at the groin, but aiming for somewhere much higher so that your mind knows to really ram your knee upward.
A male friend of a friend of the family once generously and kindly advised me that if anyone with nuts ever got up on me without me wanting him to do so, to “grab his balls as hard as you can, squeeze, and yank away from his body until they feel like marmalade. Then run.” I have never forgotten this advice.
My self-defense trainer used to say: “Eyes are like grapes. Ears are like pull tabs. And if you’re going to grab some, girls - grab, pull, twist, and bring those balls home to mama.” …I really need to embroider that on a cushion.
Reblogging for my women followers. Know how to protect yourself, okay?
Fun fact: we did a groin attack drill in krav recently, and one of the guys’ cup was secured improperly. When he got kneed he made a noise like someone dropped a bag of rotten tomatoes from a third floor balcony, and hit the ground retching.
A few of the guys snickered and called him a wimp, so our instructor decided EVERYONE was going to do the drill with no cup to see how little force it took to incapacitate an opponent.
I was paired with a friend of mine who looks like if the Rock and the Mountain Who Rides made a little Boulder Love Baby. I apologized in advance, he said he was ready, and I flicked him in the nuts.
Flicked.
Not hit. Not tap. Not punched. Flicked. The same amount of force I’d use to maybe kill a mosquito, using the blade of my hand.
He went the colour of cement and nearly threw up on my shoulder.
It takes MINIMAL force to fuck a guy up. Now, if you’re grabbed from behind, snap your head back into his face and while he’s distracted you can either make a fist and strike back at the groin (arch your hips to the side for more room) or karate chop from the elbow.
He’s gonna be pissed–but he’s gonna be puking first, and that’s your opportunity to kick him in the kidney and run like the wind.
Mother Nature put mens balls on the outside as as a woman I will 100% use that to my advantage in a fight.
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I always reccomend using it as a one two punch. Groin strike, the go for the eyes, throat, twist/break fingers, or the opposite. Go for face/finger breaking/twisting, then groin, maybe even hit them in the groin twice, really devastate. A lot of dudes will go down from groin strikes. But some might be on drugs, drunk, just incredibly hopped up on adrenaline/anger. So dont RELY on one groin strike. In self defense never rely on any ONE strike. Unless you been training martial arts for years. Always go for 2-3 good hits, and run.
Martial arts problems: bruises just.. appearing. In the weirdest places. Don’t know where they came from.
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This is so badass
Allyson Hyatt spent years grappling on the mat after starting in the second grade. Lily Sajadi began wrestling once she enrolled into high school and after some convincing Nyla Thitphaneth finally …
Budoblr reblog + write in the tags the worst injury you’ve had from training, how long you’ve trained and your fave martial arts tv/movie (if you have one)
y’all i’m thinking about making a discord server. trying to gauge interest before i do, though, so drop a like or comment to let me know if you’re interested
it would be open to anyone, and have channels for both martial arts and not martial arts(so you don’t have to be a martial artist to join). my general idea for the code of conduct can be summed up as BE KIND, but i’m open to suggestions
Would so be up for that!
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Budoblr, reblog with your fave kick and what you call it in your martial art’s language !
idk what the official taekwondo term is, but we always called it a front kick. in muy thai i think it’s called a teep? whatever it’s called i like using it as a jab bc i’m 5′4 and most of the people i spar with are tall lol
Front kick-Mae Geri.
ohh okay, cool! goju-ittai mentioned up/ap(sp?) chagi, what is that? i vaguely believe it’s some sort of counter?
no no Mae geri is the official japanese karate name for front kick, Chagi is just the basic name for kick in taekwondo. I was saying my fav kick is the fron kick, and that mae geri is jarates official name for it(i practice shorin ryu karate).
@tinyterrorbjj looks like it’s ‘ap’ chagi! Some of these look nasty to pronounce ...
Budoblr, reblog with your fave kick and what you call it in your martial art’s language !
idk what the official taekwondo term is, but we always called it a front kick. in muy thai i think it’s called a teep? whatever it’s called i like using it as a jab bc i’m 5′4 and most of the people i spar with are tall lol
I haven’t done taekwondo in about 6 years but I remember front kick being something that sounds like ‘up/ap chagi’? Or maybe I’m thinking of a different kick....
Budoblr, reblog with your fave kick and what you call it in your martial art’s language !
catching kicks
Ok so a problem I’ve had in sparring is I quite like going to ground but I’m very bad at takedowns. I would love to be able to catch the leg when someone kicks me but I find it so hard - not just with people who kick fast but with kicks that should be easy to catch. Does anyone have any tips or techniques??
Cutting the angle and rushing them before they reach full extension is definitely key especially for side kicks. And I find it easier to grab from below and raise the leg up rather than try to capture it from above (using chest high kicks as a base). That allows me to guid the leg where I want it to go while taking the opponents leg past their controlled extension unbalancing them.
so move into their space before their kick is fully extended and scoop leg from below?
thanks for the advice, will defo have a go in sparring tonight!
catching kicks
Ok so a problem I’ve had in sparring is I quite like going to ground but I’m very bad at takedowns. I would love to be able to catch the leg when someone kicks me but I find it so hard - not just with people who kick fast but with kicks that should be easy to catch. Does anyone have any tips or techniques??
thanks for your input
catching kicks
Ok so a problem I’ve had in sparring is I quite like going to ground but I’m very bad at takedowns. I would love to be able to catch the leg when someone kicks me but I find it so hard - not just with people who kick fast but with kicks that should be easy to catch. Does anyone have any tips or techniques??
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