Deep Throat This: Peter North's Training Blog

Fighting techniques won't help you when theres 250lbs of the Bebbs train charging yo ass.

Next stop.

PAIN TIME!

Ever heard of Bob Sapp?

Yeah, didn't he beat Ernesto Hoost?

Yes. Blue t shirt. Funny video.

Any reason why you guys didn't clinch/kick/knee? Need to keep a tighter guard mate, you're way too open!

Boxing was the game. At the time (this was in May and it was the last time I did any kind of fight) I had a bit of kickboxing training so I kept wanting to kick him. My guard and head movement sucks which is why I don't do fighting much because although I can walk through quite hard punches (growing up with big brother = decent chin) I like my brain cells.

When I was kickboxing though we occasionally did grappling and I was 10x as good at wrestling than anyone there (with no training) so that's why I think I would win a fight against a pure TKD guy who isn't strong.

Kickboxing is a very good sport, far better than taekwondo no doubt about that. I've been moving around between karate, taekwondo, full-contact kickboxing and muay thai since I started in 1994, kickboxing and especially muay thai are the most effective I have done so far. I'm surprised you do grappling (unless you meant clinch work) during kickboxing training, that's quite rare.

in a guillotine choke but the instructer told me off because he said I would get kicked in the head if I did that in real life.

We sometimes did some MT style clinches or whatever but I wasn't very good at them.

lol, I'll upload the video of last time I had a "fight" (in May). See if that changes your mind

EDIT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN8M8XG5C9c

He told me to go easy on him so I thought that meant he was going easy on me too. He stopped the fight because my nose was bleeding and he doesn't like blood apparently.

The day before the fight I had this in my journal

but since I was using a 15 kg bar without realising until July those numbers are all +5 kg on what I actually lifted.

Guillotine looks like the sort of choke which doesn't work when your opponent is allowed to punch you in the balls (i.e. real life), but maybe I'm missing something

If your putting a guillotine on someone untrained you can sweep yourself on top fairly simply, and if your talking about a real fight, you can crank it into a neck crank, and that just hurts too much to think of anything else to do.

Would you suggest utilising holds in a no rules street fight though?

From my experience holds and locks aren't a particularly great idea.

1. One problem is that by putting someone in a hold/lock they normally get pretty angry, if they weren't already beforehand, which means the moment you let them go they're probably going to take a swing for you. In some ways knocking them out beforehand and/or breaking bones, etc makes things a bit simpler and safer for yourself unless you plan to detain them forever.

2. A hold works on one person, the moment you're facing more than one person (which is a harsh reality these days) they're out of the picture. If you try it you will almost certainly get pasted by his mate.

3. They're quite technical movements, to learn and employ, particularly in a stressful fight situation. Unless you're a highly experienced operator it is unlikely you're going to pull it off. You would be far better sticking to the basics (punches, knees, elbows) and master those. More fights are ended by strong strikes to the head than elaborate chokes, holds and locks.