Best Martial Arts Tactic

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Have you ever heard the expression, "Do not play your opponent's game?"

If you are a martial artist who can play several different games, so to speak, then you will have a definite advantage in a real fight.

Do you understand the sagely advice of not playing the other person's game that was first popularized by Bruce Lee? (Yes, I actually am a second-generation Bruce Lee student, and I started including the game advice in my internet articles eight years ago.)

So, what does that mean, and why is it some of the best martial-arts advice around?

It means staying outside your opponent's area of ​​expertise:

If your attacker is better at kicking than you are, then it would be dumb for you to fight a "kicking game." Would not you agree?

If the bad guy is a wrist locks expert, then you can not hope to win, if you limit the game to locking techniques.

This is just common sense – basic strategy – that most do not consider.

How do you change the game?

Look, if some guy is punching at you with a series of fast punches, and they seem fast to you, then you probably do not have what it takes to fight this attacker, punch for punch.

You do not want to trade punches with a punch expert.

So, what do you do?

You change the game!

If you are an attacker is punching, then you will throw in a stall technique, to slow down the pace enough so you can effect a wrist lock.

You need to stop the punch sequence.

Take the fight into a new arena … your area of ​​expertise.

And if your opponent happened to start with expert locking techniques, then you'd switch out of that game. Get it?

Note: By the way, you can often suss someone's strengths from almost the beginning of an encounter. There are all sorts of tells, that give away a person's preferred fighting style.

As you locking master tries to snap on a wrist lock, you break up the game with a punch – maybe even a punch series, like a straight blast.

Or what about a kick!

Are you getting the idea?

Of course, you are going to have to practice to develop this game-switching skill. You will not always be able to switch to the same game.

For example, I am a wrist-locks expert, but it would be dumb of me to accumulate that every time I encounter an opponent, I'll be able to take it to that venue. It will depend on many variables.

In order to develop this skill, start practicing with one set of counters at a time. For example, learn to take all low kicks, and how to segue from the low kick into your preferred fighting niche.

If your looking for a good counter way to counter a specific powerful strike, read my ebooklet on developing an Elbow Strike Counter.