The Flak Zone is the zone
where you are in range of your opponent’s weaponry, where you can strike them
and they can strike you. Martial arts is obsessed
with this zone.
Just about every technique ever developed for the stand up fight was focused on the flak zone. There are a lot of good technical solutions that work in this zone but there is equally a lot of stuff being pedaled that doesn't work.
Fighters rush through this zone, or move in and out of it, as they attempt to measure and deliver strikes to their opponent. Unless you are going to take the fight to the ground, your thinking is likely to be trapped into focusing on the flak zone as the most important element of the fight to solve.
What happens then when you face multiple opponents? It’s a mistake to assume that you have time to measure and assess each attacker, as that is the time the group will take you to ground and acquaint you with their footwear. In a battle against a single attacker, the flak zone is seen as a problem that you have to spend your time solving. For multiple opponents this is not the case.
You may not like to hear it but the flak zone is really the least important part of a group encounter. Your safety is found in your ability to accelerate straight through the flak to the source of the attack, and then on to the next opponent. This can only occur if you are not distracted by the ‘flak’. There is no time to prove a point.
Just about every technique ever developed for the stand up fight was focused on the flak zone. There are a lot of good technical solutions that work in this zone but there is equally a lot of stuff being pedaled that doesn't work.
Fighters rush through this zone, or move in and out of it, as they attempt to measure and deliver strikes to their opponent. Unless you are going to take the fight to the ground, your thinking is likely to be trapped into focusing on the flak zone as the most important element of the fight to solve.
What happens then when you face multiple opponents? It’s a mistake to assume that you have time to measure and assess each attacker, as that is the time the group will take you to ground and acquaint you with their footwear. In a battle against a single attacker, the flak zone is seen as a problem that you have to spend your time solving. For multiple opponents this is not the case.
You may not like to hear it but the flak zone is really the least important part of a group encounter. Your safety is found in your ability to accelerate straight through the flak to the source of the attack, and then on to the next opponent. This can only occur if you are not distracted by the ‘flak’. There is no time to prove a point.
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