What is important about techniques?

I was thinking in a fight will there be anyone critiquing your technique? No they wouldn’t and everyone know in a fight what really maters is that you get out of the fight alive. Right! Then doing the technique right, in my opinion is not the most important aspect to technique. I think it is how you use it.

Look at it this way a technique is like a tool. Yes it has its main function like a hammer to a nail, but in the end is the hammer only useful for putting nails in a peace of wood. No not necessarily. The same is with a technique. There is a main purpose for using the technique but that is not the only way you can use it.

We are taught by our Masters how to use a technique in a fight. What is told to us is from years of experience on how they use it. Nothing wrong with that, because that is what the teacher knows, and anyone would be a fool not to listen to there instructor because they have had the experience. Just remember that the teacher isn’t the student. They are two different people that ultimately see the world and understand it differently.

Also technique or the purpose of the technique will change depending on the situation you are in. If someone does a swing hook kick in the sparring ring will it he be able to do that on the street. Yes, maybe, because that is what the person knows how to do, but the technique will need to be executed differently. Why? A street fight has different timing and different things that happen than in a sport. so the technique could be used, just used differently than in the ring.

So the important thing about technique in my opinion is your understanding and decision on how you are going to use the technique. In the end it is up to the individual to decided, and that is really how people win and lose fights. There decisions on what they do in a fight will decided ultimately who the winner is.

MP