Archive for January, 2011

How to Knock Someone Out With One Blow!

So, you’d like to know how to knock some­one out cold with just a sin­gle blow?

When it comes to end­ing a street fight as quickly as pos­si­ble, noth­ing is more effec­tive than a head­butt (or as they refer to it in Scot­land, a “Glas­gow Kiss”).

By smash­ing the crown of your head against your enemy’s face, you’re essen­tially tak­ing advan­tage of your body’s most effec­tive weapon in order to strike your oppo­nent on their body’s most vul­ner­a­ble part.

What many peo­ple don’t real­ize how­ever is that the com­mon way in which a per­son deliv­ers a head­butt is far from being the most effec­tive way it can be delivered.

Let me elaborate.….

Interview with UFC Fighter Mike Swick

Photo: Ulti­mate Fighter Cham­pi­onship fighter Mike Swick demon­strates var­i­ous moves used to sub­mit oppo­nents at an undis­closed loca­tion in South­west Asia on April 04, 2010.

Recently the Fight­life TV crew vis­ited Amer­i­can Kick­box­ing Acad­emy in San Jose, Cal­i­for­nia, home of the cur­rent UFC Heavy­weight Champ, Cain Velasquez, and peren­nial wel­ter­weight con­tenders John Fitch, Josh Koshchek, and Mike Swick. Mike was busy get­ting ready for the UFC’s Fight for the Troops event on Jan­u­ary 22nd, 2011. We were treated to Mike and John going toe to toe for sev­eral rounds of spar­ring, hit­ting the pads with their strik­ing coaches and grap­pling with Strike­force fight­ers Daniel Cormier and Her­schel Walker. After the work­out, we talked with Mike about his relent­less pur­suit of fight­ing excel­lence, and his tire­less sup­port of the troops. He’s been to 9 coun­tries on tours of bases from Ger­many to Iraq, taught MMA sem­i­nars and been out on the shoot­ing range with sol­diers. I ask him about his tours and what he finds most impres­sive about the men and women of our fight­ing forces.

5 Tactical Tips to Survive a Home Invasion

Are you aware that you’re eight times more likely to be involved in a home inva­sion attack than you are to be involved in a house fire? When intrud­ers enter you house force­fully, whether for the thrill of it or to rob you and take your fam­ily hostage, this is con­sid­ered to be a home inva­sion. Don’t make the mis­take of think­ing home inva­sions only take place in high crime areas. There are sto­ries of home inva­sions tak­ing place in sub­urbs and rural areas. These attacks are more com­mon than most peo­ple think. Now is the time to plan a home defense strat­egy that will keep you and your fam­ily safe if you’re ever faced with a vio­lent home inva­sion attack.

Strategic Thinking for Survival

It’s usu­ally no more than plan­ning ahead, but it’s worth con­sid­er­ing how strate­gic think­ing could be used by you to avoid sit­u­a­tions that could put you or your loved ones at risk. Pre­pare for the worst, hope for the best, and as M used to say to James Bond: “Always have an escape plan.“

Self Awareness for Training

“Until you know what you do, you can­not choose to do oth­er­wise.” Moshe Feldenkrais.

Self-awareness is a nec­es­sary basis for improve­ment in any skill. Some of us are in con­stantly mon­i­tor­ing our­selves, while oth­ers of us can go along con­tent to be less acutely aware of how or why we might behave in cer­tain ways. Teach­ers, train­ers, coaches and team mates play a crit­i­cal role in devel­op­ing self-awareness. They are the out­side observers that per­ceive and point out behav­iors to the stu­dent has that he or she is not yet aware of.