What would your advice be to a noob fighter?!?

If you had to give advice to someone who never fought before and had to do it for self defense, what would it be? Also, does the forty five degree punch to the chin actually work and how do you do it? Any punching/block teniques are appreciated.





ThanksWhat would your advice be to a noob fighter?!?
If you are talking about a street fight, then the number one rule to always remember is that there are no rules. Anything goes and anything can happen. Also, if you should be the first to fall to the ground, get up ASAP by any means possible and necessary.





If you are referring to boxing, know that the jab is the most important punch. Please don't confuse importance with power, because the jab is not the strongest punch. The jab can be used in many ways and reasons, like setting up for other shots or disrupting your opponent's fight plan.What would your advice be to a noob fighter?!?
For once, I'll grudgingly agree with Woody. No rules, it's adapt or die. A fight really is simply attempted murder with knuckles, yours against his. I've never heard of the 45 degree punch. If you could please explain it. I'd think that whatever part of the chin you're aiming at, you'd want to land perpendicularly.





Advice for a street fight? Don't do it unless you have to, there's no ref to stop you from becoming a corpse. Try to find some kind of martial arts that also teaches street fighting techniques. I studied taekwon do, which was fine, but if you used strictly that in a street fight, you can find yourself lost when you realize you dont have a good block against a sweeping hook.





Ok, let's see, techniques for self defense...I'm often surprised how inexperienced people somehow think there's a magic combination punch or technique that will win the day. Strap on a pair of gloves, find a sparring partner, and get used to taking and throwing. Then you'll be able to keep cool under fire. Some pub-fighting slob starts winging shots at you, if you already understand punching range, you'll be able to make him miss with little effort. But reading messages on the net will in no way, in itself, make you better in a scrap. So practice.
I will answer this from the streetfighting aspect only.





I agree with the above sentiments, there are no rules. Where I disagree is that there is some kind of martial art that can get you equipped for a street fight. Remember, just because you are fighting on asphalt does not connotate you are having a streetfight.





In most cases, the idea of ';self defense'; will get you killed. There is no ';block/parry/kick'; combo that you should be thinking of. Keep in mind ';defense wounds'; is a term that is used in a coroners office.





Bottom line: Street fight, you hit first, you hit dirty, you hit to stop them where they are. A buffoon works on punching someone harder to see how thick their skull is, and rendering a fifty fifty shot. A STREETFIGHTER will jam his fingers as deep as he can in someones eyes for the first shot (yeah try to be a bad *** after that) or chop/punch someone in the throat (run after that one, fifty fifty chance he may or may not make it)...or grabs someone by their groin tight enough to feel his fingertips touch his palms, lift up high and pull towards you (with any luck some of it will tear off and he will black out).





THESE are the rules of streetfighting....you dont think in terms of martial arts, you think in terms of modern warfare in the trenches when your rifle is out of ammunition. To survive, you have to hit when someone isnt looking, stomp your heel into the top of someones foot to crush the bones in the top, tear off an ear...grab a head and bite the nose on the bridge.





Streetfighting is not taught in martial arts schools, and MMA does not simulate it. Anyone that thinks Chuck Liddell could hold me in a submission after I bit a chunk out of the nearest limb to me is unrealistic.





And again, I say this. If you have to ask the question, you have no business fighting anyway. Cause where as you may or may not agree with my rules...someone else already uses them and nine times out of ten in a streetfight that is who you will encounter.





So, either fight hard, or dont bother.