Ong Bak 2 !

Ong Bak is possibly the finest example (after a few fight scenes in the Bourne films [ie. the park bench scene with the two Police men]) of realistic applied martial arts put to film. Most of the time Jaa is fighting as if his only goal is to disable the attacker and finish the attack in as short order as possible. This is the ultimate aim of a person in a fight when the outcome has to be in their favour.

A mantra at a gym I used to train at was, ‘don’t turn it into a fight.’ This didn’t just mean the pithy ‘walk away from fights, just back down’ etc. It means simply don’t draw the situation out. Don’t get fancy and fire off 5 moves when 1 will do, don’t let the situation escalate. Always keep the mindset of finishing the attacker with your strikes etc. If this fool is punching me, I’m not thinking about defence, instead I’m thinking of what can be done to stop him from punching again / staying standing / breathing / etc.

“Invincibility lies in the defence;
the possibility of victory in the Attack.”

Sun Tzu

“In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.”

Ulysses S. Grant

A t-Shirt I saw once, in very poor taste I should add, had the slogan, ‘don’t turn this rape into a murder‘ (without debating the t-shirt) The essence is broght to the fore in very graphic terms; don’t make a very bad situation worse by doing extraneous things. If you’re going to crash your car, you slam on the brakes and turn the wheel to avoid the accident. What you don’t do is turn down the stereo, adjust the air-con and wind up the windows! It should be the same in a fight.

I’ve gone off on a tangent here!! Check out the Ong Bak II goodness in the trailer below!

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1612560688

Why do you bother?!

Looking through the ‘tags’ section of WordPress today I came across this.

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