Archive for November, 2011

Why Self Defense Needs a BIG Makeover – By Bill Kipp

It is amaz­ing and even quite sad how in this advanced age of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, some­thing as impor­tant as self defense is still so vastly mis­un­der­stood. Think about it: Ask 100 peo­ple what they think self defense is and you will get all man­ner of responses. The typ­i­cal response is filled with images of cin­e­matic flashy moves, break­ing boards and bricks, and deadly secret death touches. Yet for the most part, these have lit­tle or noth­ing to do with how real peo­ple could or should try to defend themselves.

And per­haps more to the point, these mis­con­cep­tions cre­ate false fear and denial that keep so many peo­ple from ever tak­ing a self defense course, even though it is a sub­ject that every­one needs to know in our ever increas­ingly vio­lent world!

There are cur­rently a num­ber of self defense and mar­tial arts orga­ni­za­tions that have tran­scended the stereo­types of self defense and actu­ally do pro­vide very effec­tive state of the art self protection.

Smash the Face — Destroy them with Elbows — Self-Defense Technique

You might not want to hurt another human being, but some­times you are left with no choice…

If an attacker becomes aggres­sive towards you, your fam­ily or your friends, then they leave you with no choice but to get physical!

In this self defense video, I am going to show you the very effec­tive elbow strikes from face smash tech­nique. This self defense tech­nique takes NO PRISIONERS, and can quickly leave an attacker on the floor won­der­ing what just hit him.

Intense Martial Arts Workout — Gain Strength for Martial Arts

If you prac­tice mar­tial arts, one thing you should always be doing is improv­ing your strength, sta­mina and endurance. When it comes to a fight, this can be the DIFFERENCE between win­ning or losing.

In this mar­tial arts work­out video, I will show you a crazy mar­tial arts work­out that takes things to a whole new level. This is def­i­nitely one of my favorite strength and train­ing work­outs for mar­tial arts.

Gracie Combatives and Gracie Survival Tactics

Gra­cie Com­bat­ives and Gra­cie Sur­vival Tac­tics: A Gra­cie Uni­ver­sity Train­ing Pro­gram that will help any Mar­tial Artist become a more com­plete fighter!

Ground defen­sive tech­niques are a must to prop­erly defend your­self as a police oper­a­tor due to the num­ber of peo­ple study­ing ground based jiu-jitsu sys­tems. Find­ing the time and/or school to attend can be a real prob­lem. Now, thanks to Ryron and Rener Gra­cie (head instruc­tors at Gra­cie Acad­emy), there is a cost effec­tive and prac­ti­cal solu­tion. Any­one can now study the world famous Gra­cie Jiu-Jitsu sys­tem at

www​.gra​cie​u​ni​ver​sity​.com.

Wrestling for Self-Defense: The Snatch Single Takedown

It works in the MMA cage, but is the sin­gle leg take­down effec­tive on the street?

In this self defense video, Gary and myself (Matt) will teach you one of the most aggres­sive and effec­tive ways to put a street attacker on his back and then quickly tran­si­tion to the mount where you can end the fight. This move is great for big­ger guys who lack speed and agility.

Police Fitness: Beyond the Academy

Fit­ness can be a dirty word in the world of law enforce­ment. For years, some police offi­cers let them­selves become fat and lazy while their coun­ter­parts in mil­i­tary oper­a­tions main­tained a level of fit­ness that was required for the job. There have been improve­ments in the atti­tude towards fit­ness that police dis­play. Donuts, cof­fee, and cig­a­rettes, have given way to bagels, bot­tled water, and pro­tein shakes. In the “Acad­emy” phys­i­cal train­ing was a reg­u­lar, if not a daily, event. Then once “On the Job” for a period of time, fit­ness went out the win­dow due to shift work, poor diets, and other obligations.

What Is Comprehensive Personal Protection?

I’ve recently had a Gestalt like epiphany. Most mar­tial artists have no idea what I’m talk­ing about when I say “Real­ity Based Self Defense” or “Com­plete Mar­tial Arts.” I base this new found under­stand­ing on numer­ous emails from my read­ers. I decided to make a list of the major com­po­nents of what a truly com­pre­hen­sive big pic­ture real life per­sonal pro­tec­tion pro­gram must include.

Here it is…

The ABC’s of Adrenal Stress Scenario Based Self Defense

Most fights are won or lost before the first punch is ever thrown.

Yet, most Self Defense courses devote a great deal if not all of their train­ing to phys­i­cal tech­niques. This is because most Self-Defense courses are derived from the Mar­tial Arts. The Mar­tial Arts are technique-based sys­tems where one begins slowly and after many years even­tu­ally mas­ters var­i­ous “Mar­tial” move­ments and forms. These tech­niques require a high level of phys­i­cal dex­ter­ity and fine motor skills.

The stan­dard Self-Defense course is based on apply­ing var­i­ous mar­tial arts move­ments to defend against the myr­iad of ways an attacker may carry out an assault. Unfor­tu­nately, arm­ing stu­dents with only phys­i­cal skills leaves out huge chunks of infor­ma­tion that are cru­cial in effec­tively stop­ping a fight before it occurs. Add to that the fact that much of the phys­i­cal skill train­ing taught is too com­plex to work in a real encounter and the harsh truth is that most self-defense train­ing can actu­ally be set­ting the stu­dent up for fail­ure, some­times with cat­a­strophic results. Sadly, sto­ries abound of an expe­ri­enced mar­tial artist get­ting beaten up by a sea­soned street fighter who knows how to ver­bally intim­i­date and hit with one or two tech­niques really hard.

Sigung Paul Vunak’s Contemporary JKD

I’ve been a fan of Sigung Paul Vunak ever since I watched his first Pan­ther JKD/FMA Videos that were released  in 1986. I dis­tinctly remem­ber watch­ing his now often imi­tated knife cut­ting demon­stra­tion. Sigung Vunak hung a big chunk of meat from a line and cut it with a knife. It demon­strated quite vis­cer­ally how dan­ger­ous a sin­gle knife cut could be, as well as how impor­tant it is to have viable edged weapon sur­vival skills. A very impor­tant les­son for every­one to learn.

Police Operations Combatives Program

POC-P Police Oper­a­tions Com­bat­ives Program/MAC Mod­ern Amer­i­can Com­bat­ives: One Method of Defen­sive Tac­tics and Self-Rescue

There are a wide vari­ety of com­bat­ives pro­grams, police defen­sive tac­tics pro­grams, and mar­tial arts sys­tems out there for the oper­a­tor to choose from. The pri­or­i­ties might change after you sur­vive the ini­tial attack, regard­less of what the attack might be; firearm, edged weapon, impact weapon, or empty hands. Mil­i­tary oper­a­tors might keep mov­ing after engag­ing the enemy and police might have to take cover, standby, and take the com­bat­ant into cus­tody for crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion. Regard­less of what step two is, you must com­plete step one and mit­i­gate the attack pre­sented towards you. The POC-P Police Oper­a­tions (or Officer) Combatives Program/MAC Mod­ern Amer­i­can Com­bat­ives offers one option to suc­ceed in step one and step two.