In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to follow-up with a cross arm lock submission, after an opponent counters your Kimura from guard attempt with a roll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8oKon6dPOY
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to secure the cross arm-lock, as a counter to when an opponent attempts to secure a Kimura from north-south position.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5aYjvUsPe8
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to use the "up" jab, to vary your opening offense, disrupt your opponent's offense and set up your own offense with more of your own punches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9qufgwzVvU
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to secure the Kimura (entangled arm lock/keylock) on an opponent in your half-guard, and how to follow-up, when your opponent reacts to your submission attempts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvRhpsWPuto
This article was originally posted to the USENet group "rec.martial-arts" back in December 1999, addressing how Western Boxing not only is a martial art, but its unique qualities blend well with other functional fighting skills. Enjoy.
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Where would one begin?
Boxing has excellent mechanics for weight conveyance in striking.
It stresses timing, range, and angling like few other combat arts in existence.
It teaches you habits which minimize the chance of getting hit -- essential in the eyes of anyone who has really stood at range and hit an opponent who was willing and able to hit back. Also an excellent complement to other defensive skills. People don't realize this until they get into a real fight, and they get hit because their chin was up, their hands too low, their predisposition too defensive and retreating, their footwork non-mobile, and their head stationary.
Boxing combines well with the Filipino Martial Arts, with Muay Thai, numerous other functional syntheses of martial art, and also aids tremendously in one's ability to fight on the street with modifications adding in eye jabs, elbows, head/hand/arm immobilizations, etc.
It combines well with pummeling and tie-up skills from a variety of grappling arts. In fact, they facilitate eachother very well if you know how to do it.
Boxing skills provide attacking ability which works very well in setting up your entry to grappling range, whether to in-fight or take it to the ground.
Boxing teaches you the value of making the opponent miss without throwing out your own posture for counterattack. Very few arts even teach or understand this to the degree that boxing does.
Boxing uses angles which achieve the ideal impact against an unsupported flush surface. Combinations taught in boxing are designed specifically to build into an incapacitating blow -- very much like chasing someone through a maze, until they make a wrong turn and end up at a dead end.
In keeping with the above, boxing teaches the value of continuity in your motion. It would be nice to be able to dispel any attacker with a simple pushbutton solution -- often espoused by "self defense" methods -- but against a determined and able attacker, this just doesn't happen.
And boxing makes you tough.
However.
Boxing is not a complete martial art. It does not claim to be.
Boxers are generally the best at what they do -- striking at punching range -- but this is by no means the alpha and the omega of fighting as a whole. Beyond this, the ability of someone who trains in boxing to do well as a fighter in the street depends on a number of other things as well.
If you train in boxing, your stance must be modified to take into account other things. A person with boxing training who intends to really fight should also be trained and prepared to sprawl against a shooter, block and avoid leg kicks, protect his groin, learn good tie-up skills and how to dominate this range, etc. etc.
He should also know how to kick, grapple, elbow, knee, rip, gouge, and how to use these and other tactics as means to other ends, etc.
Also, a person who can box must be willing to leave that mode behind when the range doesn't call for it. I could write a 10 page article on this topic alone.
There's a lot more to this. These are some points of departure.
Frank Benn
Integrated Arts
Austin, Texas
In this second video of a two-part series, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to swarm an opponent, following your punch combinations with a kick, or a knee, as an opponent attempts to disengage from you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkrwiskzcFs
In this first video of a two-part series, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to swarm an opponent, using a tight, advancing weave, evading your opponents punches and countering with your own cross and hook punch combinations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGKV-NfnCOA
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates the mechanics and usage of the "superman" punch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClKDI7qN1ak
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates why adopting the southpaw fighting stance is advantageous, especially in a mixed martial arts, or self-defense situation, where grappling/wrestling may be involved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqn_w8K1fPs
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to integrate wrestling and ground striking skills to great effect. This example shows how to sprawl off of an opponent's double-leg takedown counter of your boxing, how transition to cradle, side control, scarf hold and mount positions, and how to strike from those dominant positions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MssGhAlTOus
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to utilize the whizzer, while in the clinch, to set up your opponent for punches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkTAPFZQfOU
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to takedown and trip your opponent, after catching one of your opponent's kicks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja-Ayp-OSDM
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to use your Thai round kick to disrupt and counter an opponent's Thai round kick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FChP0RdqWU
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to use the baston (stick), while in the clinch, to takedown your opponent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLpKoZmP2Zk
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to use changing range and feints to draw out an opponent's armed attack, so that you may follow-up with an attack of your own.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQtH4Cukmdc
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates the dynamic nature of deflecting and blocking attacks in Filipino Martial Arts weaponry, and how that allows for more continuity and fluidity in your fighting, creating openings to counterattack an opponent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igCKuFtQnBs
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to prevent the rear-naked choke and escape from the back mount position.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_44XFbKmVvA
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how and when to utilize the "stop hit" in your boxing and mixed martial arts striking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQsAr08Gg0w
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to counter and escape the arm-and-neck choke (arm triangle) from underneath the mount and scarf hold positions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3kskM98u-4
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to utilize knee-on-stomach and knee-on-chest positions to maintain dominance in grappling, MMA fights, and self-defense encounters, and how to transition to even more dominant positions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTP0QstWXbY
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn explains how alter your striking strategy to anticipate an opponent's wrestling shot, and follow-up to obtain superior control on the ground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TRoQnlXTq0
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates how to counter a single-leg takedown attempt, when one of your kicks is caught.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsRC7nLc6A
In this video, Chief Instructor Frank Benn demonstrates the off-side head control/clinch position, and how to utilize it to deliver striking attacks, throw knees from the clinch, and complete set-ups for takedowns.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HknlteFR61M
