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Monday, December 24, 2012

Gavin de Becker Conference on Preventing School Shootings - Part 1

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Maul meets Santiago - 26th November 2008

I would love to try this with resistance and on a non compliant training partner, but there are 2 major problems, I probably can’t do it perfect and I have never seen any videos with a resisting opponent. Most of it can be explained easily with the standard response, the techniques are too dangerous to do with full speed and intent that will leave you with no chance to try it against an opposing training partner, sometimes it’s true but other times it’s possible to drill it with opposition. I find their techniques very interesting and like to watch their videos, but it lacks a demonstration against an opposing person, I have been told that the biggest problem with their seminars was the lack of realism, that it was flashy stuff with no combat value. I don’t like to judge other system by what other perceive as right or wrong, but the critique was from a very experienced high ranking FMA Grandmaster, I will go to a seminar if they are close to where I live to make my own judgement.

In a few seminars that I have attended curious to see and feel it had anything to offer, to improve my skills I had to listen to a similar argument, if you do it more than 5 times your are going to die, the man in front of me did not know that I have been smashed on that spot for hours training with the strongest man I know with bones of steel, I was amazed of how easy it is to scam people in martial art, I sometimes compare Martial Arts with New Age groups as many search for a spiritual component, believing that 5 minutes of meditation before and after training makes you more spiritual. What is even worse are the no touch KO Kyusho practicioners, some of them lie and are hypocrites, they publicly state that they don’t believe no touch KO, but privately they believe it works and to avoid being ridiculed they need to lie.

I teach by asking everyone to constantly ask themselves what if something violent happened now, when they navigate around in public spaces and test what they feel is an acceptable moral response in a specific situation, this could be while being on a train and 3 loudmouth drunks enters the train and sit near you, or while having a drink in a bar see a big guy being intimidating by his body language, the list is endless creating scenarios at home is something most will not do as they have a hard time imagining various scenarios. By doing it while moving around in public spaces you get the scenarios that are closest to what you will encounter, as most people have a life that consist of routines the odds that something will happen where they spend most of their time in public spaces is very high. to what you will encounter, as most people have a life that consist of routines the odds that something will happen where they spend most of their time in public spaces is very high.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Verbal Judo

A big portion of self-defence training should be what happens before you need to use physical force, awareness of dangerous situations, how to avoid them, how to spot the subtle cues before an attack by recognising grooming or verbal escalation rituals, how to destroy an attackers plan by with the right words make him multitask while you are executing your own pre planned and practiced action and be ahead on the OODA loop. This is a subject than many don’t train or even are not aware of its importance. We spend time on this and give our students tools to think about what plan they would choose, how to practice it themselves everyday, find a solution that is congruent with their own moral view.