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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4334499" data-attributes="member: 15538">In all honesty, realistic fights are kind of goonish. In my experience in a number of boffer combat tournaments and watching several martial arts competitions:- Someone manages to disarm themselves practically every tenth bout. Expertise does not seem to help much, either.- Sometimes, someone will pick a nasty attack and use it repeatedly until it works. And it often does. A trip is one possibility. One difference between an expert and a beginner is that an expert will use an attack each and every time there is an opening, and is ready to defend against the next attack whether it's a surprise move or the exact same attack the fifth time in a row. Beginners vary their attacks, but often for no really good reason, and are easily faked out. - If you've ever watched MMA, it's not uncommon to see, say, a Brazilian jiujitsu fighter use essentially the same combo to take down two or three guys in a row. You would think it would not work, but when the guy actually pulls the move on you, you see why it works.- One good trip is to attack the torso, and when they step back to avoid or lessen the blow, you step forward and strike them in the chest or chin. That's a trip, and it requires very little force to accomplish. You're taking advantage of the natural reflex to lean back from an attack.</blockquote>