397 - Aide-mémoire: May '23 week four
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Tuesday 23_05_23
The first half of the workshop was a crash course in being ready to move towards sparring for the survival fighting context.
Ways of standing
Understanding ways of standing in a fight and how this differs from finite “stances”
That being said, understanding the logic behind common fighting stance ideas and how you can learn important lessons from them.
Ways of striking
I looked here at common striking methods and presented a basic skillset - and I mean basic!
This set is the beginning part of a series that I developed for my own use over a period of years - the rationale behind the ideas (which is both an expansion and reduction on key Force Necessary methods along with others from my own training, research and experience, can be learned and more importantly USED very quickly) is shared to enable them to be understood, used or abandoned by each trainee depending on what they find useful.
I offer these ideas in hope that it cultivates a outlook of critical thinking and creatively considering personal needs in each trainee rather than the common - “you must do it this way” approach.
These ideas must be made second nature through constant practice.
These are the core tactics that will be returned to again and again.
When you have mastered these basics, you then continue with them until they become “advanced basics” - they are the brass tacks of fighting, without them (and other core ideas) you cannot consider yourself fully capable of resisting aggression.
Trainees are taught to survival fight from their first lesson - not in five years time.
Ways of moving
Looking at key ideas from the article below and then expanding upon them.
Anti knife crime training
Here I looked at using a common grappling move that is sometimes advocated as a counter to a specific knife draw.
After spending time learning various tells and so on, we worked on getting this tactic useable for the group.
From here, the flip side is then considered - what people will do in terms of reacting to you doing this and just how difficult it can get for you.
There are a really only a couple of salvage options from these problems and we looked at those:
One that cripples the attacker - the legal consequences of this were also discussed.
The other is the GTFO! option - safer ways of achieving this.
Students were also given free reign to create opportunities for striking and I looked individually at each of these.
This work will continue in future workshops.
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