Characteristics of offensive (attacking) actions of a horting athlete
Offensive actions find their expression in attacks and counterattacks. Counterattacks, in turn, can be counter, responding and repeated to the opponent's counterattack.
Attack is the best tactical means of a combat horting athlete to achieve victory. But the attacker can count on success only if he carries out the attack in a timely manner and unexpectedly for the opponent. This is his certain tactical advantage over the defending opponent, because he is the initiator of actions, can start the attack at the moment of greatest readiness for action. That is why the attack should be prepared. One of the preliminary moments of a successful attack is the ability to reveal the opponent's defense with erroneous actions, distract his attention from the target chosen for the strike and thereby create a convenient position for striking or making his grab and throwing. In the practice of conducting fights, some athletes use the attack as the main combat means, continuously attack and only occasionally use the form of counterattacks. Others use counterattack as their main form, they attack to start a fight, in order to provoke the opponent to counterattack and deliver a decisive blow in a repeated counterattack or to perform a throwing technique.
Striking attacks are carried out at long, medium and close (clinching) distances. Throwing attacks are carried out at medium and close (clinching) distances.
A fight at long distance. An attack from a long distance is one of the real combat means of a combat horting athlete. It can end in one small episode. At a long distance, it is always more difficult for a combat horting athlete to start an attack than at a medium distance, since, being outside the sphere of blows, the opponent relatively easily perceives the initial movements and has time to react to them with defense. In order for the attack and counterattack to be unexpected for the opponent, the athlete, when preparing a blow, must distract his attention by constantly changing distances and making erroneous actions. For a fight at a long distance, its own characteristics are characteristic. Being in a straightened stance without a grip, the athlete easily moves along the horting on his toes, but his legs are slightly bent, spread apart for stability, and he is always ready to quickly and easily switch from attack to counterattack, changing the types of movement and the distance to the opponent. An athlete of combat horting of a long-distance duel, who is used to performing techniques at a long distance, uses mainly direct blows with his hands and side kicks, combining light, distracting blows with swift and sharp ones, and mainly applies defenses by stepping back and to the side, also using various defenses with the help of supports. The ability to use feints in combination with side strikes and masterful movement are characteristic features of a representative of a long-distance fight. An attack with one or two strikes often leads to the rapprochement of opponents at medium and close distances. A quick, unexpected attack from a long distance is used to seize the initiative and for a decisive strike at a medium distance. If, after an attack from a long distance, combat horting athletes find themselves in close proximity to each other, they fight for an advantageous position of the arms and torso for strikes and defenses. In this case, the attacks are continued with short strikes. The attack must be swift and confident, otherwise the opponent will make decisive counterattacks.
Counterattacks from a long distance can also be a means of active defense. There are frequent cases when an attacking combat horting athlete received a counter-attacking blow, after which he was unable to continue the fight. If the athlete is good at defensive actions with the help of slopes, dips, rebounds, supports and moves well, then, using defenses against the opponent's blows, he creates advantageous positions for himself for effective counterattacks. Not feeling counterattacks, the opponent loses his vigilance a little, opens up, so you can successfully strike back - one, two or a series of blows. In counterattacks, the combat horting athlete tries to strike a counterattack or several blows at the moment when the attacker opens up. For this purpose, the athlete who decided to choose a counterattack form of the fight tries to provoke the opponent to attack, having prepared one or another counterattack in advance. A more complex counterattack at long and medium distances: using feints (false blows) to provoke the opponent to counterattack, which you decisively outdo with your own counterattack. This form of the fight is available only to highly qualified combat horting athletes.
Middle-distance fight. If a long-distance fight is characterized by great mobility and maneuverability, where each athlete tries to hit the opponent with his blow and remain invulnerable himself, then a fight at medium and close distances limits movement along the course. The tactics of a middle-distance fight are to attack with single and multiple blows, defend well, and counterattack with corresponding and counter blows, deliver single blows or series of blows faster than the opponent, take holds and perform throwing actions. A middle-distance fight is either the development of attacking or counterattacking actions, or a certain method of combat actions that are part of the athlete's tactical task or are inherent in his individual manner of conducting the fight. At medium distances, a fight can develop if the opponent does not offer resistance, which can prevent the development of the fight, or if he actively counteracts the attacker. If the opponent does not allow the development of actions at a medium distance, a sharp counter duel occurs, in which the attacker must fight for the initiative and moral superiority. Such a duel usually combines attacks and defenses against the opponent's counterattacks and counterattacks against the opponent's counterattacks, grabs change and there are constant attempts to throw from one side and the other. The rapprochement of both combat horting athletes can also occur because one of them will strive for this, and the other cannot break the distance to be outside the fight, or both go for rapprochement and continuously attack. Such a counter duel more often occurs in fights of strong-willed, persistent athletes of the same fighting style, who prefer offensive actions. Each of them tries to suppress the other's will to resist, works quickly, and with endurance.
A fight at a close (clinching) distance. When approaching directly, to the point of body contact, the fight requires great effort and almost always ends on the ground. A combat horting fight takes on a power character. If the athletes continue to fight in a standing position, an exchange of blows occurs, where each athlete seeks to prevent the opponent from acting with pads, delays, forearm supports, and shoulders in order to find a convenient position for an unhindered strike. Strikes are carried out mainly with bent arms from below, from the side, from side to top, from bottom to side, under the arms, through the opponent's arms, etc. A fight at close range (close-quarters) is conducted when the combat horting athletes are close to each other, when they hold each other in a tight attractive grip, or when they collide in a grouped stance. The tactical task at close range is to take a comfortable position for body strikes, to tire the opponent with them or to restrain his blows, to take your tight grip, to knock the opponent to the floor of the horting with a fall or a throw. At this distance, the fight often takes on an athletic character. Conducting a fight at close range requires from the athlete, in addition to highly developed muscular and motor sensations, the ability to relax and feel his opponent, as well as a high level of special endurance, stability and agility in the fight for his grip.
"Horting Encyclopedia"
Eduard Yeromenko
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