Never underestimate your opponent. They may only need one chance in order to get the best of you. I’ve had to be reminded of this a few times. A major rule of Kajukenbo is, ‘Expect your opponent to be better skilled than you and to have a friend.’ If you go to the ground and your opponent has a friend then you just put yourself into a worse position. Allowing yourself to go to the ground in a street fight is very dangerous. I’ve looked at opponents and assumed that since I outweighed them by 40 lbs. and I had more experience than they did, they couldn’t possibly get the best of me.
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Kajukenbo as it was founded is a brutal art. When the founders were deciding what techniques to include in the art, they would try the techniques on each other and then go get in fights to see if it worked on the street. Don’t try that today unless you plan to go to jail. Still though, that shows that they wanted something real and when they started the schools it was not uncommon for the students to leave bruised and bleeding.
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