http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.boxing/browse_thread/thread/...
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.boxing/browse_thread/thread/...
When I posted these two posts above nine years ago, I thought that the
jailhouse rock (AKA the 52 punches) was just something that prisoners
had done for fun and recreation. I didn't know that it was a whole
entire fighting system with thousands of moves. Four people explained
it to me in the early '80s and three of them all showed me what I
described in the top link, so I thought that there wasn't much to it.
Someone told me that they used to "play each other for cigarettes" so
I thought that they were doing it just for sport, but it's a whole
entire fighting art based mostly on boxing.
You know how a boxer always keeps his hands moving to make it harder
for his opponent to see where the punches are coming from? They have
their own ways of moving their hands. It looks like they're having a
spastic attack or something. I just came accross (sp.?) it in YouTube
yesterday by chance (keywords "dirty boxing"). This is now my favorite
martial art ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTeyT67qeHg&feature=channel (this guy
in the video does it the way I described in the first post at 1:34
[one minute and thirty-four seconds into the video], but then he lifts
both arms up and crosses his arms)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hQw7-rIaP8&feature=related (Zab Judah
confuses Floyd Mayweather with the 52 blocks at 1:55 into the video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoRUKmX9Mc8&feature=channel (New York
Times video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9XpqkURBg (52 Blocks Prison Fighting
System)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l1q2vBPYEc&feature=related 52
blocks intro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACGiIDGWOqw&feature=related (60
Second Assassin "Remarkable Timing" Discussing the 52 Hand Blocks)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgPy25wOrQ8&feature=fvsr (demonstration
starting at 4:24)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQuOP5MYQLk (demonstration with a
shaving razor starting at 1:11 and a demonstration of razor blade
techniques starting at 2:15)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JoXWsdh7QE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skdd52yXNaU&feature=channel (the
butterfly)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwMBQCbWnAc (explaining hand movements,
techniques, strategies, angles, beating down on the leg etc.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJey7L2ADYg&feature=related (nine-
minute-and-forty-four-second interview)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVbqrz5XGE0&feature=fvw (52 blocks
Staying Alive) [sparring]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38uVH9-DCdk&feature=related (Skull and
Crossbones [the first block of the system])
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailhouse_rock_(fighting_style)