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How To Kick: Kicking Effectively in a Self-Defense or Combat Situation
Part 1 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 14, 2006
5
Tips for Increasing Your Level of Safety and Self-Defense in These
Uncertain Times
Everywhere it seems, people share their concerns about "what the
world has come to." With battles raging both across the sea in far-off
lands and here on our own streets, it seems that more and more people
are looking to the government to make them more safe and secure...
Author: Jeffrey Miller
Date Posted: November 30, 2006
Footwork
for Self-Defense and the Martial Arts: Step-Over and Across
If you read my previous article entitled, “Self-Defense Fighting
Techniques: Sucker Punches, Off-Setting, and Roundhouse Kicks” you
will recall that I executed a rather simple piece of footwork in
order to avoid a sucker punch, and also to allow me the room to
execute my Roundhouse Kick to the head. If you haven’t read that
article yet, stop reading this one and search through my articles
wherever you are reading this and read that article first. It will
make this one a whole lot clearer and easier to understand...
Author: Shawn Kovacich
Date Posted: November 26, 2006
Martial
Arts And Self Defense Tips: The Science Of The Fight
Even if you know the best self defense techniques you are still
vulnerable if you haven't developed one significant skill and that
is fear control. You need to be ready to stay calm during a physical
or verbal attack. There's no training that can simulate a real life
situation (e.g. a real attack on the streets). However there are
certain martial arts and self defense techniques that will help
you control your stress and your fear. These techniques will make
you feel a little bit comfortable during a stressful situation (e.g.
an act of aggression against you). These fear control techniques
involve breathing exercises and hand positioning...
Author: Mara Mark
Date Posted: November 25, 2006
Should
You Notify Your Attacker That You Are Trained In The Martial Arts?
According to some “experts” in the field of self-defense, you should
notify your potential attacker that you are in fact trained in the
martial arts and that if provoked, you will use that training to
defend yourself. Now I consider this advice to be akin to taking
a knife and cutting across your own throat to see if it is sharp
enough. Sure, you’ll find out the answer to that one, but only once...
Author: Shawn Kovacich
Date Posted: November 16, 2006
Unconventional
Personal Self Defense Weapons
Weapons are intended to give us extra power and leverage, but they
are not always where we need them when we need them in an emergency
personal self defense situation. Many who own firearms, for example,
leave them locked up at home. Others buy personal self defense products
like pepper spray, but don't have those weapons with them 24/7.
So it is an important part of any personal self defense mindset
to learn to recognize and use improvised weapons...
Author: Jeffrey S. Anderson
Date Posted: November 12, 2006
Self-Defense
and Fighting: When Is The Best Time To Use A Technique On Your Opponent
A common term used in the Japanese martial arts community for the
defender is called a “tori,” while the attacker is called a “uke.”
As I was coming up through the ranks, my fellow classmates and I
rephrased the Japanese word “uke” to mean dummy, instead of attacker...
Author: Shawn Kovacich
Date Posted: November 11, 2006
What
Practically Guarantees Success in a Self-Defense Encounter?
It never ceases to amaze me just how many people have the
same questions or ideas about self-defense and what works. Seriously.
Almost as soon as someone finds out that this is what I do, I invariably
get one of two responses. You can break these responses down into
the "asker" and the "teller" groups...
Author: Jeffrey Miller
Date Posted: November 08, 2006
Kubotan for Self Defense
It was an autumn day about 5 years ago when I was walking home
from a local softball game. I was approached by a rather large man
who asked me for a light for his cigarette, when I said “I don’t
have one” he grabbed my arm and said “then how about your money”.
I reached into my pocket but instead of money, I pulled out my Kubotan
and jammed the end hard into his forearm...
Author: SA Rubin
Date Posted: October 30, 2006
Self-defense
Against a Knife: Myths, Fantasies and How to Stay Alive, Part Two
In training, no matter how "hard-core" and "alive," if you miss
your pick-up of the knife arm or lose control of it as you grapple,
you get poked, and you try again...
Author: Ari Kandel
Date Posted: October 21, 2006
Self-defense
Against a Knife: Myths, Fantasies and How to Stay Alive, Part One
"Knife defense" (actually, "defense against weapons"
in general, but let’s stick to knives/shanks/little pointy
things for now), as trained these days in most martial arts/self-defense
schools, and even in many (but not all) "Reality-Based"
ones, is more entertainment than life-saving training...
Author: Ari Kandel
Date Posted: October 20, 2006
Self Defense
Tips For Knife Attacks
Free advice is usually worth what you pay for it, and that also
goes for self defense tips, especially regarding a knife assault.
Many that look cool in a book or movie will get you killed in real-life...
Author: Jeffrey S. Anderson
Date Posted: October 15, 2006
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