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Self-Defense Tip 29 Learning Fighting Skills: Techniques, Tactics, and Drills

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Demonstrating fighting skills is not enough for teaching the right way to learn and practice them Most self-defense books and videos, and even many seminars and classes, demonstrate fighting techniques and tactics (set-ups) but not the methods or drills for learning them. Few people realize that repeating a technique many times is not always the […]

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Self-Defense Tip 28 How Does the Video Self-Defense: Tools of Attack Differ from Other Videos on Self-Defense and Hand-to-Hand Combat?

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Someone has asked me about the video Self-Defense: Tools of Attack. He said that he already has the video Basic Instincts of Self-Defense and likes the moves it shows and the way these moves are taught. He liked that all moves build one upon each other and that similar moves are used against many different

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Self-Defense Tip 27 The Need for Proficiency with Weapons

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Knowing how to use common street weapons is critical in cases of armed attacks This self-defense tip continues to deal with the need for proficiency with the weapons and tactics that one is likely to encounter. To put it briefly, you and your training partners have to be proficient in the real methods of attack

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Self-Defense Tip 26 Realistic Defenses vs. Phony Defenses: Armed Attacks (Club, Hatchet, Blackjack, Knife, Razor)

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Commonly taught defenses against weapon attacks (with clubs, knives, razors) are even less realistic than those against empty-hand attacks The two previous self-defense tips (tip no. 24 and no. 25) explained why proficiency with the methods of attack is essential for developing working defense skills. The examples given in those two tips were of unarmed

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Self-Defense Tip 25 Realistic Defenses vs. Phony Defenses: Striking and Kicking Attacks

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If in your practice strikes and kicks are done wrong, your defenses against them will be useless in real fights This self-defense tip continues the issue of the necessity to be proficient in the methods of attack for developing effective defensive skills. In the previous self-defense tip (tip no. 24) I gave an example of

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Self-Defense Tip 24 Realistic Defenses vs. Phony Defenses: Grappling Attacks

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If in your practice grappling attacks are done wrong, your defenses against them will be useless in real fights Being proficient with the method of an attack is necessary for realistic practice, and thus for acquiring effective self-defense skills. People who do not know what makes attacks work can be persuaded to practice useless “defenses”

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Self-Defense Tip 23 Individualization of Self-Defense Instruction

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Why some fighters prefer defense and others counterattack or attack, and how to fit instruction and training to various personality types This self-defense tip deals with individualization of instruction. A competent instructor, preferable with university-level training in physical education and sports training, will make exercises “flow” during workouts, will know which games and drills are

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Self-Defense Tip 22 Selecting a Gym or a Martial Arts School, Part II

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Check workouts for safety, effective instruction, sound methods of developing fitness, a smooth flow of exercises, with each subsequent exercise building upon the previous one In this self-defense tip I continue the subject of selecting a gym or a martial arts school and instructor. The previous tip dealt mainly with the material factors that affect

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Self-Defense Tip 21 Selecting a Gym or a Martial Arts School, Part I

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Is the instructor competent, training area and its surface safe, showers clean, little children and grown-ups do not mix in one group? This tip will deal with selecting a gym or a martial arts school. The first concern is what precautions are made against injuries, whether sudden or gradual-onset. Ask the instructor if he or

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Self-Defense Tip 20 Defenses Against Stabbing

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Stabs are faster than slashes and an untrained person can easily stab at a rate of four stabs per second In 1996 emergency departments in the U.S.A. reported treating 112,710 injuries inflicted by cutting or puncturing weapons. Of those victims, 5,352 died. Puncture wounds caused 4,832 of these deaths and slashes the remaining 520. Add

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