Re: What is it that makes wing chun "bad" for self defense?
- From: "PT" <ptanenbaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 3 Aug 2005 15:01:01 -0700
usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> ....
> I really don't think that it's a matter of power, but a matter
> of "crap, I didn't see that one coming." I think it's the angle,
> mixing perhaps with a blind spot, that makes the hook effective.
Ali - Liston 2, 1965: the phantom punch
Wasn't a hook, though. More like a cross from the blind side,
after slipping Liston's left.
"It's always the one you don't see that hurts you."
In addition, we have to consider the opponent moving into
the blow. Liston was also a victim of that circumstance;
as he was recovering, he moved into Ali's cross. Judoists
are familiar with this - the balance regaining reflex. (a
judoka would have caught him with something like ko soto gari)
It has often been claimed that the fight was rigged, there
was no KO. But several ringside witnesses have sworn it real,
and the ref avers he saw Liston's eyes rolling.
---
Paul T.
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