Koscheck and Johnson Stopped By Basic Self Defense Moves
So as I watched UFC 106 the other night it was interesting to see the Koscheck/Johnson fight repeatedly stopped by the referee for “illegal” strikes on at least 3 occasions during the match. Now I absolutely agree that in a combat sport match the rules need to be adhered to so the fighters are allowed to pit their athleticism and skill in a controlled setting to see who can win.
Here is an excerpt from a report on the fight:
“The bizarre nature of the fight began in the first round. When Koscheck was down on both knees, Johnson threw a huge knee, sending Koscheck to the canvas. Johnson was immediately apologetic, as he knew that he had screwed up, but that didn’t help as Johnson was deducted a point. After quite a few minutes and a check by the fight doctor, Koscheck returned to the fight to immediately take over the first round, and win the round using wrestling.
The fight continued to get weird as Johnson, who was reported to be fighting at 200 lbs, was then on the receiving side of two unintentional eye pokes. Johnson is especially sensitive to eye pokes, as he was on the bad end of a terrible eye poke against Kevin Burns, and had to have surgery to correct eye problems.
When Johnson returned to fight, the two started the slugfest fans were expecting until Koscheck took Johnson down and started to ground and pound. He took Johnson’s back, and sunk in a rear naked choke with just seconds left in the second round….”
As I watched the match it was amazing to see how two highly conditioned MMA fighters could absorb numerous kicks and punches to the body yet as soon as they were injured they were helpless. For all 3 of the “illegal” strikes the referee had to intervene to protect the other fighter as he was unable to continue for a short time. On the street this would’ve been the time the other guy would finished the man.
All three of the “illegal” strikes are basic to any self defense program and none of the 3 strikes were thrown with real intent or follow through by either fighter yet still would’ve got the job done on the street. Nor does it take a lot of skill and ability to quick learn any of them.
So this should be a good template for any of you that think being bigger, faster, and stronger is the ultimate answer when it comes to surviving real violence. Learning to injure is the most direct path to shutting down another human.
Until next time,
Tim Larkin
TFT Group
PS: To get a complete library on “Illegal” moves that can save your life check out our Striking DVD program . It wont help you in the Octagon but it’s great for shutting down killers!
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Still, there is a big lesson to learn here. Thanks for the blog.
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I’ve just taken to saying, “Sure, lets go outside so the place doesn’t permanently bar us. Makes sense, right?” They agree. We go out. They take their shirt off or some shit like that. I give ‘em the first swing (I’m sober, they’re not) pepper spray the fuk out of them with some Fox 5 and smash their kneee with an ASP.
And then walk away. Sometimes their dumb friends follow, one of them will get sprayed too. Sometimes i have to explain myself to the police as to why the crying flathead is all upset.
But it is annoying to deal with these randy pricks and what I’d really like to do is put them in a ravine and simply execute the fuk out of them with light machine guns…en masse.
The point being…if you’re going to play physical violence…kill someone. If you’re not up for that, chill and be civil.
This play shit is simply an annoying, childish exercise in BS. (and I don’t care how tough they are, ripped abs, ooga-ooga, whatever…Violence = Kill or injure. Period. It’s not a game and I hate people who treat as if it is.)
One too many wars, I guess.
M
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lIKED TO SEE OTHERS WHO KNOW THE REALITY OF SURVIVAL FIGHTING.
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You’d simply never have the chance to perform your eye or groin shots.
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Even myself, reading this realized you are 100% correct. I cannot tell you the number of times a 160lbs. man whupped the pure dogs#!t out of a 6′5″ antagonist. As a guard, we were always taught to fear a lawsuit above anything else because it could cost us our job. I see now that I am lucky I made it out of that field alive. I am also now wondering just how hard some of the fellows we had to take down were fighting. It suddenly occurs to me that the ones who were repetitive just got bored.
Anyways, thanks for the food for thought.
I have to say the spectrum of communication you showed in another location concerning social communication bothers me. I can think of one situation in particular that I walked away from purely because numbers changed the equation. Now, I see I read it and the outcome all wrong even though I lived through it.
Best Regards,
Tim
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Thank You,
Sgt. Bill Clason
Colorado Department Of Corrections
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I remember a guy I knew somewhat who was HUGELY into that Gracie Jujitsu stuff and believed that it made him invincible. I tried to explain to him many times that anything with rules isn’t fighting. I tried to explain to him that if he and I fought and it was NOT for the ultimate stakes that he would pound me senseless every single time, but if it ever became about “him or me” that he wouldn’t last 3 seconds. I was never able to get across to him that the human body is odd in that it is able to absorb astonishing levels of punishment while simultaneously being so fragile that a simple move by an 80 arthritic pound grandmother can turn a 6 foot tall athlete “off” in less than a heartbeat.
Too bad I didn’t know about you guys back then. I could have sent him here and maybe someone else could have gotten through to him.
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