Dog Brothers Public Forum

My thought generally on SD arts is to wonder whether they're actually focusing on the right thing. The emphasis seems to be heavily on muggings in the dark while you're on the street. Where I live the places you get into fights are at clubs and bars if you're drunk, or when you have a home invasion. Street muggings are incredibly rare. They still teach KM here though and I'm quite sure they have the street attack curriculum.

I also get the feeling they overemphasise eye gouges and their risk. I have yet to hear of an attack where someone had their eyes gouged, I have heard of people having their heads beaten and stomped in though. I think the eye gouge thing only came in after 1993 as a reaction to it being a foul in the original UFCs.

What I do like about them is they like to emphasise fighting from a worst case scenario as a starting point. So once you've already been attacked, they don't talk that much about what you could do if you saw the attack coming. Obviously you'd have a chance to prepare for it, but whatever works when you're surprised should also work if you saw it coming.

Rats, I was in Switzerland in April and May, would have been cool to check out (although I don't think I would have liked participating... yet).

Threads on MMA.tv discussed the injury specifically, although they're long since dead and I'm not a pro member there so I can't drag them up.

http://www.bullzeye.com/sports/interviews/2006/andrei_arlovski-post.htm discusses it, although I wasn't aware of this until you asked for a source so I went digging for it.

Hope it's satisfactory.

Cheers.

I only skimmed over this so I hope it hasn't already been posted, but Arlovski broke his knee in the second round of the fight, which is why he stopped throwing leg kicks. To whoever was saying they'll never know why he stopped; now you actually do.