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“…Hope you are as well as possible in dystopia.”
Thanks and … yes. Possibly though, as we enjoy the socio-economic rewards of poking a bear with a stick and then possibly soon, a dragon too, we should think less of a dystopia and perhaps more of a comedy?
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“Hi Jeth,
Thanks for a really interesting class last night. Lots to think about, and from different perspectives, too. Sparked some interesting conversations with (removed) on weapons of opportunity.
Disappointed, however, to discover complete lack of bruises. I clearly must try harder.
Hope all is good with you”
Thank you.
Bruises are subject to availability. Will be restocking this week.
J
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Tuesday 25_4_23
Where to find the knife defence material for home practice
Students looking for the knife defence sets that we used in this workshop can find them (along with extensive instructions in the book “Self defence: Volume One” Click for Amazon link
You’ll also find sections with tactics, content and drills for some of the separate women’s courses that have run recently.
Topic
No topic points this week, we had a larger class than last time and I wanted as much time as possible to work the room and help out. So we were straight into…
Bareknuckle striking
Trainees worked in pairs to look at delivering groups of strikes to the face and other effective targets of their partner.
My goal was to get people counter striking as a reaction to being struck regardless of the position they find themselves in - wherever they put you, they are getting punched.
Train for chaos: Out of the comfort zone
This was pretty challenging for some as the impulse is to subconsciously try and position yourself in a way that it conforms to your comfort zone and this is why a lot of people who, despite having trained for a substantial time, can encounter terrible problems actually defending themselves when they can’t replicate the way they “like to train” in an actual confrontation.
Your strikes may miss.
Your strikes may only partially contact.
But you WILL fight on.
Because you have been trained that way.
This is learning to step towards true free form, creative striking and is very different from approaches that continually use set patterns or pad drills to try and simulate the absolute scrappiness of violent encounters. You are not learning to become a XYZ style fighter from XYZ system, you are becoming an amorphous nightmare for the idiot that chose to pick on you.
Grappling
Looking at a very common situation of pinning another person to the floor. How to optimise your chances for getting it to work.
How does this happen?
Why on earth would you do this?
Should you do this?
What really happens when you do? The full biting , spitting, clawing, hair pulling, ugly truth of it.
Anti Knife crime
Learning movement one from Knife set one - the full set is in the book “Volume One” (Click for Amazon)
Disarming with impact - because despite what experts say - knife disarms are possible.
Impact and then stunning the brain.
A possible example of a takedown here, but that is dependent on the situation and what you are trying to do.
What happens when this goes wrong and you are now struggling on the floor with a disarmed (and pissed off) aggressor. Again there are several possibilities here and students now have several potential courses of action to choose from.
Next week
More unarmed skills and grappling situations involving knives.
Until then, fear not as “intent” and “means” are not the same thing…
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