You meant to write half the pace of the fist instead of knee .


I originally wrote that to open up peoples minds to other possibilities and to not get caught in one belife.

Put it this way: If you are trained to only look into someones eyes for all the triggers,what happens to you if they are not looking into yours and are looking at your elbows and knees?
You will not see straight into their eyes,
where does your training leave you in that situation?

The statement half the pace is correct in a looping swinging punch but not so on a jab so much, as the elbow and fist travel out together on the same plane.

Depends on your preferred fighting distance as to the benifits; but in close I think its a great place to look, stop and also attack from. In Mma especially so, because you have the knee and elbow in vision and with headbutts not allowed you wont fall for it like on the street; so those two points are their triggers and balance points and you'll stop a round high kick at the knee with your knee or hand and do their joint some damage.

Balance is big thing in close and those are the two areas to disrupt it all by too. You can also stop someone kicking you by dropping your arm down into the crook of their arm or pulling their arm forwards or pushing it in towards their opposite foot that is kicking. (they cannot complete the kick if you have control of their elbow). If you lean on their other knee the kick is disolved too same goes for the elbows you move someones elbow and see what happens to their other arm that punching (the power dissipates).

They are close in tricks you can adapt into a telephone box style battle without grabbing you can disrupt them ad make them adjust so you get an opening.

Also blocking their wrist with your elbow allows you to remain in distance and get one off on the same side without you adjusting.

Just things to consider and open the mind to is all.