Company: Panther Productions
Tape Name: Floor Fighting, Volume 2
Tape Cost:
(1998 single tape price: $49.95)
Length of Tape/Time: 50 minutes
Number of
Moves/Techniques: 34
Return Policy: Defective merchandise only
Experiences
in dealing with this company: ?
The Instructor: Arthur Cohen
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Primary Grading Criteria:
1.
Production/Tape Quality: 9
2. Instructors demonstrated skill level: 8
3. Comprehension
Score/Immediate Understanding: 10
4. Degree to which this will make someone a
better Martial Artist: 8
5. Score on delivery vs hype: 7
6. Degree to which
we would recommend this product: 7
7. Wasted Time ( The higher the number, the
less " fluff" /repetition ): 8
8. Playback Score/Watching if over-and-over
again: 8
9. Would I purchase more of this company's products:8
10. Overall
grade based on cost vs. Value: 7
Grand Total: 80 % ( 0 Stars = Poor ) Original
Grade = 80%
Secondary Grading Criteria:
1.
Beginners benefit: Poor
2. Intermediate benefit: Poor
3. Advanced benefit:
Poor
4. Time to benefit: Techniques are not difficult to learn.
5. The need
to buy additional tapes to understand this one: None
Written Summary:
As you
may have guessed from reading our grading scale above, I was not overly impressed
with the material on this video. There is certainly nothing wrong with the company,
or the production quality, but I had several problems, with many of the techniques
shown, and the way the participants are taught to train with the material. In fact,
this tape is a very good example of teaching methods and techniques that work fine
in a dojo setting, but have the potential to get a student seriously injured in a
street confrontation. Personally I didn't feel the kicking techniques shown, would
consistently allow a person in a street confrontation to walk away easily, and unscathed,
as this video seemed to imply.
The first segment of the video deals with defending
yourself when you are on the ground and you're being attacked by a standing opponent
who is trying to drag you away by the legs. Now imagine the "real life"
version of this scenario. You are on the pavement, not the mat, you are there most
likely because you were pushed down, knocked down, or you slipped down, and your
body incurred some kind of impact. You could very easily have the wind knocked out,
broken bones, be dazed badly, have double vision, or a great many other problems.
Now considering all of this, do you really think most people are going to be able
to pull off a lot of fancy kicks, or multiple kicks, on the ground, and afterwards
walk away unharmed? Maybe some could, but I doubt it would be an effective form of
defense for most people. Going into dead weight mode, screaming for help, covering
and body rolling, and generally making yourself difficult to handle, should be the
first step to any of these moves. Assuming you will be able to execute a series of
fairly difficult looking kicks, or combinations of kicks, from the ground, would
probably be highly unlikely for most. Your best bet would probably be to wait for
your opponent to present an opening to a vital target, and when he does, capitalize
on it, or sucker him in and then attack. But whatever you do, please don't assume
you will be in any kind of shape to do a lot of difficult kicks, or combinations
of kicks, on the ground, especially when at that moment, you can't even remember
your last name.
The balance of the tape featured numerous self defense techniques
that contained takedowns. I guess that could be considered floor fighting, but it's
not exactly what I thought would be shown when I saw the title of this video. All
of the standard self defense clinches were shown. Some of the techniques shown included
grabbing punches out of the air and applying an armbar, executing jumping and flying
side kicks in street self defense situations, and in all of the techniques, making
sure the opponent is stupid enough to just stand there and let the defender put on
any complicated series of leg sweeps, or armbars, that he wants too. Needless to
say, of the 34 techniques shown on this video, I would estimate that 10 at most could
be used effectively against a determined and street savvy opponent. My personal "favorite"
was when the defender was on the ground on his back and was being attacked by 2 opponents.
With a few deft moves, and kicks, the man on the ground easily dispatched both opponents
and walked away unharmed.
Our reviews process is about giving an honest critiquing
of a company's material. Therefore I do not feel I can give a strong recommendation
about this video to anyone wanting to learn serious techniques for use in the street.
Don't get me wrong, Panther has a great reputation, and this tape may have some value
in a dojo setting. However I was very disappointed in the material I saw on this
video and its insinuations about it being street effective.
Out of the 1000+
tapes that Panther has, we haven't reviewed many, mainly because Panther, to date,
has surprisingly only sent us 3 tapes for our reviews. If Panther will ever send
us some more complimentary review tapes, as they promised us they would do several
months ago, we'll be happy to review a much larger sample of their offerings. Due
to Panther continually delaying our next shipment of tapes, we've gone ahead and
either borrowed, or acquired, on our own, other tapes of theirs such as this one.
It looks like we may have to continue doing this, in order to get our readers the
reviews they ask for. And since this process is mainly intended for our readers,
never fear, we've got quite a few more tapes of theirs, like this one, to review
for you VERY SOON. Some of the tapes you've asked to see reviews on such as: Gene
LeBell, Advincula, Robert Bussey, and Sugar Ryu, we're working on obtaining for you.
CJ
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