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Which
Personal Self Defense Weapon Works the Best
Pepper sprays, stun guns, kubotans, they all work well for preventing
an assault, but does one self-defense weapon really work any better
than another? There is no short answer to this question. Each personal
defense weapon has advantages as well as disadvantages. I’ve
already written a number of articles on how some of these weapons
work, so this time I’ll just attempt to give you a brief description
of the pros and cons of some of the more popular self-defense weapons...
Author: SA Rubin
Date Posted: January 08, 2007
How
You Can Defend Against Multiple Attackers
No martial arts that can effectively defend against multiple attackers.
I have been involved in the martial arts for over 18 years, and have
yet to see any method that can effectively deal with this problem...
Author: James Liu
Date Posted: January 07, 2007
5
Ways to Ruin Your Self-Defense Training - Conclusion - Becoming
Invisible
There are vital reasons why we don't spar. If we need to enter,
we utilize John Perkins' version of WWII Combatives because it's
faster, easier to learn and provides far better protection than
Western Boxing and all other variants of sport fighting. Ironically,
this is beneficial whether you have the physical advantage or not...
Author: Ken Freeman
Date Posted: January 05, 2007
5
Ways to Ruin Your Self-Defense Training - Part 5
Often preached, yet rarely practiced, this principle is essential
to an understanding of how the weak overcomes the strong. Energy
transfers to a solid object far easier than it does to an object
without a fixed center of gravity. By bracing or locking up with
improper timing or for sustained periods, the majority of fighters
provide angles of structure for their attacker to clinch, push,
pull or strike because they lack the proper free play (Contact Flow)
and other sensitivity training which allows them to engage in the
intricate practice of "liquid body/solid body" on a subconscious
level...
Author: Ken Freeman
Date Posted: January 05, 2007
5
Ways to Ruin Your Self-Defense Training - Part 4
Since people panic on the ground and move with tension, they telegraph
their movements and move in a "reaching" instead of "striking" fashion,
thus leaving their limbs susceptible to locks and breaks before
they can even reach their targets. As the hand is faster than the
eye, an object moving between two points can't be picked up by the
focus zones of the eye if it travels faster than approximately 1/16th
of a second. For this reason, it is important to think in terms
of hundredths of seconds instead of tenths or full seconds, as that
type of movement would be far too slow for our purposes...
Author: Ken Freeman
Date Posted: January 04, 2007
5
Ways to Ruin Your Self-Defense Training - Part 3
Training with protective equipment such as gloves, headgear, flack
jackets, knee pads, shin guards, chest protectors or any other protective
devices destroy the ability to develop sensitivity and looseness.
If you wear protective equipment, you will never have the ability
to properly counterbalance or completely yield your root in response
to pressure. This especially holds true in clinching range where
hand-eye coordination is entirely too slow...
Author: Ken Freeman
Date Posted: January 04, 2007
5
Ways to Ruin Your Self-Defense Training - Part 2
Real violence is not structured, choreographed or patterned. Anyone
who denies this fact of life which is supported by police, morgue
and infantry reports is living in a Hollywood fantasy. To train,
therefore, as if fights are in anyway structured, is a complete
waste of time and energy, not to mention suicidal. I will simply
provide two examples, though they are essentially one and the same.
In the grand scheme of things they apply to every form of fighting
that has no appreciation for the randomly chaotic nature of a fight.
Guided Chaos assumes all fights are hell storms of non-patterned,
non-choreographed movement...
Author: Ken Freeman
Date Posted: January 04, 2007
5
Ways to Ruin Your Self-Defense Training
This is the first of a 5 part series of articles analyzing popular
training paradigms which inhibit the ability
to be creative via non-choreographed movements in high speed/high
adrenaline fights. The five levels are, "The Set Up",
"Structuring the Fight", "Wearing Protective Equipment",
"Disregarding Vital Targets" and "Providing Structure"...
Author: Ken Freeman
Date Posted: December 29, 2006
Simple
Knife Defense - Responding Appropriately
Before we go into this subject, the best knife defense is to run
away, so please keep this in mind. In this first segment of Simple
Knife Defense.I want to address the topic of Responding to a knife
attack appropriately. This is when someone gets in your face right
there and now, no time to think but to react. In this case we will
respond appropriately. Some will not agree with this method, but
it is from personal observation through numerous testings...
Author: Jon Hines
Date Posted: December 29, 2006
Common Objects As
Weapons
Martial artist are not strangers to weapons. We train to some degree
with swords, sai, bo, nunchakus and other traditional weapons. That
weapons help us with coordination and other attributes. Those same
weapons are of little use in the street. We would not carry a sword
under our coat or a Bo to work. We need other types of weapons for
self-defense. We need more accessible weapons...
Author: Eduardo Lugaro
Date Posted: December 23, 2006
Learn
How To Kick: Kicking Effectively in a Self-Defense or Combat Situation
Part 2 of 10
This ten article series will deal with the various components that
need to be addressed when considering the utilization of a particular
kick in a combat or self-defense situation. These ten components
can also be used by the tournament competitor although certain segments
would have to be modified slightly for the tournament aspects of
kicking, rather than the more intensive nature of using a kick or
kicks in combat. Although all of these individual components are
important, they are most effective when combined together and utilized
correctly when executing a kick...
Author: Shawn Kovacich
Date Posted: December 16, 2006
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