366 - Aide-mémoire: Feb '23 week four

Round up of this week's workshop content

Situational realities…

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Here’s all the content and extra training notes too on some of the key ideas I covered in this week’s workshops for supporters - principles and approach to training for bareknuckle striking, combatives pad drills and some of their limitations, grappling situations.

But first a couple of emails…

Mailbox:

Thanks to a private student for taking the time to share these kind words. - J

“Brilliant session, empowering and thought provoking.

I love the simple tips that I can carry in my head when I’m running. I genuinely feel safer now”.

Mailbox:

A reader response to the supporter article “Come on!!”:

364 - Mailbox: "Come on!!"

“Rather than getting someone else to come with you to the cash point and face the other way... One of these will probably do the job:”

Tuesday 21_2_23 Workshop content:

Topic: Creating absolute certainties. Please refer to this article:

365 - Death, taxes and scratched corneas

The following article and video were used for one of the later scenario examples:

362 - Video: Woman successfully fights off attacker

Punching for survival fighting

Elizabeth “Lady Bare Knuckles” Stokes, popular bareknuckle boxer in Britain, early 18th century. Fought both men and women, each woman would grasp a half crown in each hand, a rule that prevented the gouging and scratching common in eighteenth-century boxing. In the 18th century, boxing matches were always bare knuckle, and bouts sometimes continued without pause until one competitor collapsed. Wilkinson was also skilled with daggers, short swords, and quarterstaffs, and the majority of her matches may have been fought with weapons.

Define the weapon

Form and structure

Building the instinctive ability to strike and also becoming used to contact.

Feeling strikes:

I dislike using excessive pad drills for striking. This is for a number of reasons:

I feel that they don’t mimic actual fighting very well, although this can be improved on by using pads to create mini scenarios which I’ve seen some combatives systems doing and I’ve used them myself, but it can, in places, lack the key ability to allow