Blind spot VS Center line

**Ronin** · Posted On: 10/08/2004 2:18pm

Thanks for that insightful opinion.

**Mr. Mantis** · Posted On: 10/08/2004 2:19pm

no prob

**Ronin** · Posted On: 10/08/2004 2:41pm

Fucking kung fu guys...

**blankslate** · Posted On: 10/08/2004 2:42pm

Little guys are better on the inside in the ring but the average non professional fighter probably needs to stay on the outside in an actual self defense situation?

**Mr. Mantis** · Posted On: 10/08/2004 2:51pm

Originally posted by blankslate
Little guys are better on the inside in the ring but the average non professional fighter probably needs to stay on the outside in an actual self defense situation?

Size differences are not much of an issue in the ring are they?

Because of that whole weight class thing?

Your average non-professional fighter usually goes down the centerline doesn't he? Or is that the motherline?

**blankslate** · Posted On: 10/08/2004 2:56pm

Yeah, weight classes, still thinking this through...hmmm.

**Lights Out** · Posted On: 10/08/2004 3:03pm

Well, maybe, usually "dancers/steppers" tend to be tall. And Mantis, weight classes, not height classes. Altrough if happens more often then not that the height difference isn´t too big, they are way too much exceptions to ignore it (I´m thinking of Thomas Hearns now, he fought Duran, he was almost twice as tall as him). You see, most people at my heigh, are two classes below me, sometimes even more.

Sometimes, being shorter than your opponent may help you to dodge their punches, step aside and counter. But I think is wiser to fight inside, were their bigger reach plays against them.

**Ronin** · Posted On: 10/08/2004 3:05pm

Most fighters, myself included, use a combination of both.
Being a smaller and lighter individual, there are benefits to BOTH principles.
Its what you prefer, that this thread is about, and why you prefer it.

**blankslate** · Posted On: 10/08/2004 3:07pm

So if someone tries to push me with both hands..I hold my ground, eyegouge them and stomp the instep. That's a good defense and that's the centerline.

If someone tries to push me, I step to the outside and deflect both their arms, kick to the back of the leg...that's the blind spot.

**Ronin** · Posted On: 10/08/2004 3:09pm

Originally posted by blankslate
So if someone tries to push me with both hands..I hold my ground, eyegouge them and stomp the instep. That's a good defense and that's the centerline.

If someone tries to push me, I step to the outside and deflect both their arms, kick to the back of the leg...that's the blind spot.

You and your fucking eye gouge...