FIGHT CLUB

All Fight Club classes employ Do Jung Ishu (the Art of Fighting), which is not a new martial art or style, but rather an amalgamation of techniques from other martial arts combined with sound fighting principles that are often lacking in other arts. A few principles taught in Fight Club:

• Emphasis is on the individual's needs according to that person's advantages and disadvantages instead of on a stylistic mold that most people can't easily be forced into.

• People in real fights are unpredictable; thus, instead of memorizing forms, fighters at OFC focus on techniques, combinations, and their applications in a wide variety of contexts.

• Power comes from timing the point of impact, not from pushing through many points of impact. Techniques shoot out, crack like a whip, and return, leaving behind damaging impact.

• Fights don't stand still; neither do OFC fighters. Footwork, footwork, footwork will bring mobility, which allows for more hitting and less getting hit.

• Parries are more effective than blocks, as they're faster and less damaging to the defender but still provide sufficient defense. Eventually, "defensive" parries should become offensive - fighters should attack the attack.

• Defense and offense should blend into offense. Defending and then responding with an attack (counterfighting) works, but hitting while defending works better.

• Application of force is the ultimate goal. Force can be applied more versatilely with punches than with kicks than with elbows/knees than with throws/grappling. All modalities are trained, but the emphasis rests on the most applicable.

• Rolling around on concrete is painful even if the fighter is winning, especially if the opponent's friends can kick the fighter while he or she is down. Thus, OFC trains grappling, but primarily as a way to avoid it.

• People respond faster to their sense of touch than to their vision. "Sticky hands," a modified form of Wing Chun, provides fighters with touch-based infighting techniques.

• The ring or cage, while the best place to safely practice for the street, simply isn't the street. Sportfighting is encouraged as a test of skills, and fighters who wish to do so will be trained for it, but the focus is ultimately on real fights.

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