Blocking the jab
"You can't block a jab - and that shows blocks don't work" I recently made a video on this topic and I'm surprised by the reactions - especially the private ones: my inbox this morning is full, mostly of some very strongly worded negativity towards what I thought was a fairly honest, unremarkable analysis of the possibilities and limitations of blocking jabs. I guess people can't seem to understand that a video filmed in class doesn't provide a full analysis of a topic and relies on some background. I made the video recalling an event that occurred some 20 years ago. I was training in a gym which had boxers training. One young trainee there knew I did karate, so he came up and challenged me. "Blocks don't work," he said. Then he mimicked a jodan uke and a chudan uke, showing he'd done bit of cursory study in karate. "You couldn't possibly use these to stop my jab ." I'm going to put aside the obvious absurdi...