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When you think about “self defense”, you probably think about
punching and kicking skills… firearms training… edged
weapons… etc.

But violence comes in many forms.

And there’s one area that most people don’t even consider
preparing for, and it’s a HUGE mistake!

For example, what if you were:

*  Attacked by a crowd of people at a demonstration?

*  Being chased by a driver on the highway who you mistakenly
cut off and he’s trying to run you down?

*  Targeted by a violent gang out looking for a thrill?

True story.. in New Mexico, gangs initiated new members by
driving around with their lights off.  The first oncoming
car that flashed its lights as a “friendly heads up” would
become the “target car”. The gang would circle around and
the new member’s role was to shoot at the car… no matter
WHO was in it!

These are very real scenarios that you MUST prepare for!

For this reason, you need to include “evasive driving” in your
survival plan.

Now that DOESN’T mean you have to have a fast car and go to
bodyguard school.

In fact, here are 5 tips you can master right now for evasive
driving skills when you’re being chased by a car full of
attackers:

1.  “Speed” is not necessarily your friend

The one who survives a high speed car chase isn’t usually the
fastest, it’s the one who doesn’t crash.

Watch those idiots being chased by police on shows like “Cops”
and those crazy “caught on video” shows and you’ll see that all
the police have to do is follow the perp until he wraps himself
around a telephone pole and then put the cuffs on him.

In a chase, try not to travel over 65mph to make sure you can
handle your car effectively on the turn of a dime.

2.  Turn when they can’t

Rather than try to outrun someone, let them get close enough to
you and then take a quick, last minute turn in a different
direction.

Action is faster than reaction and if they’re behind you, they
won’t be able to respond in time to take the same turn you just
did.  They’ll either crash or have to back up to follow you and
by then, you’ll be long gone.

3.  If on a highway, take a 4-lane exit

If you’re being chased by someone on the highway, identify an
upcoming exit and move to the far LEFT lane.

With your pursuer close behind you, make sure you have clearance
and at the last minute, shoot across all 4 lanes to barely make
your exit.  It will be difficult for them to back up, especially
in the left lane against traffic, to follow you.

4. Distract the driver

If you’re driving at night, reach under your seat and pull out a
2- to 5,000,000 candlepower spotlight.  (You can get these from
any boating or auto store.)

Shine it behind you at the driver and you’ll instantly blind him.
He’ll likely stop the car out of sheer panic of crashing (which
he may do).

These are just a few of the tricks you can use to escape from
someone while you’re in your vehicle.  For even “sneakier”
advice, there’s a whole section on “survival driving” in a new
book and audio program just released on “escape and evasion
during riots”.

The program’s website is at:

Close Quarters Combat Training

Here are some of the other strategies the website offers:

*  Cheap, easy-to-find, and LEGAL “weapons” you can keep in
your car that can cause a pursuing vehicle to crash or
completely breakdown.  (This is real “poor man’s James Bond”
stuff!)

*  A 12-second “man trap” that’s capable of taking out MULTIPLE
ATTACKERS!

*  The first person to pick off if you’re being chased by a
gang of thugs! (No, it’s NOT the leader of the group!)

*  3 weird distraction devices that will shock the hell out of
your attackers allowing you to escape… or ATTACK!

*  An ancient “assassin’s trick” that will allow YOU to be the
first one to strike and take out at least one or two
attackers right away!

Who could pass up knowing these secrets, right?

That’s why I highly suggest you go and check this out now at:

Close Quarters Combat Training

Do you realise just how important Balance is to your Martial Arts?
Just think about this for a moment… If you are off balance, then what are your defensive options? What are your offensive options?
They are pretty limited..
Now.. consider the case of your opponent being totally off balance… How are your options now?
You have a ton of them..
Balance is one of the keys to earning the right to land your technique!

It is easy to talk about balance and just say, take their balance and you will be in an advantageous position. That could be in stand up, on the ground.. for sport… or indeed in a real fight.
The key to understanding balance, is to understand the principles upon which the body is actually balanced.
Once you understand the principles… then you can apply them in all situations.
Look at it this way… If you ONLY LEARN from a Monkey See, Monkey Do perspective (as most systems are taught) then you HAVE TO REMEMBER what to do.
It’s like learning your times table.. I remember having to chant these as a kid at School… we did not learn how to multiply, we had to REMEMBER all the answers!
Learning from a principle based perspective TEACHES you how to multiply.. so when you are faced with a question, you can work out the answer.
So it is with learning the balance points of the body… once you understand how and why, you can work out the answer!

So.. now we know that we MUST learn from a principle based system, so that we only have to remember a few formulas rather than a ton of answers!
How do we learn these formulas of Balance?
Simple… I have done all the work for you!
My DVD – Balance Points explains everything in great detail. It is packed with instruction and EXACT methodology required to learn these formulas.
Then all you have to do, sounds easy huh? Is practice practice practice
Drill the training procedures till you are the best that you can be… then keep drilling them. That way you will OWN the formulas!
Here is the link for this DVD… which includes a hard copy DVD delivered to your door.. PLUS 2 download versions.

Balance Points 2010

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In 2010 we have witnessed in the United Kingdom no matter what the government statistics may tell us a rise in violent crime that is unacceptable in a so called free society. In London alone according to figures published in the Times newspaper and I have no reason to disbelive them eighty three young people lost there lives to knife attacks. Country wide two hundred and fifty three people died as a result of knife crime. How many other attacks were not fatal this figure will run into thousands,street robbery is on the increase and criminals are getting more violent. Hardly anyone I know has not had personal experience or have known someone who has not been affected by this tragic and often stupid story.

Over the last fifteen to twenty years there has been an explosion of interest in the art of Brazilian Jui Jitsu thanks chiefly to the Gracie family.  With the phenomenal success various members of the family have had in mixed martial arts fights both amateur and professional.  It is no wonder we now see many new schools opening to teach the methods used by the Gracie’s, plus the usual books and DVD’s published in the main to cash in on that success.

So it was with no real expectation of reading anything new or interesting when I was sent a copy of the BJJ Manifesto.  This is a book written by two martial artists called Rob Arryo and Matt Khan.  Together they have over twenty five years of experience in the art of Brazilian Jui Jitsu first as enthusiastic students then later becoming well known instructors.

What they have done with this book is put all that experience and knowledge to good use and they share with you the reader all that they have painstakingly learned over the years.  This book is published online so unlike the traditional printed paper book not only does it have quality photos it benefits from many DVD clips so you are left in no doubt as to how each technique works and how to train it.

Alongside the technical training they also talk about tactics how to defend how to attack how to deceive your opponent giving you a greater chance of success.  I found the sections in this part of the book particularly interesting and much to my delight worked exceedingly well in training.  Far too old to be fighting now but some of our younger students have had great success with these methods.

So in short I would not hesitate in recommending The BJJ Manifesto to anyone who is interested in Jui Jitsu or mixed martial arts.  The last word should come from a more illustrious person than myself Royce Gracie himself enthusiastically endorses this book which on its own is good enough for me.

To get more information and hear what Royce thinks of this book.

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If you’re a mixed-martial artist and you’ve been in a fight that’s gone the distance, then maybe you know the terrible feeling of having nothing left to give with 2 minutes left in a round. If you haven’t gone the distance or haven’t had a pro fight yet, then use the 5 tips in this article to make sure you’re the one maintaining the pressure and imposing will – not your opponent.

1) Do sprints and intervals instead of long, slow runs.

MMA is a sport that requires explosive, quick moves and strength at various times through a 5 minute round. You never know if you’ll be in a clinch, defending a shot, escaping the mount, or sinking in a triangle. One thing you do know is that you WON’T be jogging around the ring at a slow pace for half an hour. Training in this fashion will help you get your time down for your local charity run, but won’t do anything to help you knock your opponent out.

Instead, stick to sprints and intervals if you’re going to be doing running workouts. An example of a good sprint workout would be to warm-up for 5 minutes doing a dynamic warm-up routine, then doing 5 short 40 yard sprints where you gradually increase your pace from about 60% to 90%. Rest a minute, then do a 100 metre sprint, walk back to the start, and repeat for a total of 10 sprints. This workout will beat distance running hands down for its ability to improve your performance in the cage.

2) Take 2 recovery weeks off for every 4 weeks of conditioning.

This tip is huge, and has helped skyrocket the conditioning of the athletes I train, guys like Jeff Joslin and Rory McDonell. Most fighters have a thing about working themselves to death – this mindset is what makes them tough, but also what keeps them injured and often overtrained, limiting performance in both training and competition.

You can avoid these problems by taking 2 weeks off of your conditioning workouts. You still do your MMA training and strength/power workouts, but let the conditioning go for 2 weeks. When you get back to it, you’ll be fresher and ready to take your conditioning up another notch.

3) Do more specific workouts in the 4 weeks leading up to the fight.

Sprints and intervals are great, but they’re not specific to mixed-martial arts. The workouts that I have my athletes perform include jumps, sprawls, quick feet drills, core stabilization exercises, explosive push-ups – all movements that are used in a fight, performed as quick and explosively as possible. I call these workouts NRG System Complexes, because they tap into every energy system of the body and are made up of a lot of different exercises.

Each complex lasts about 5 minutes, and your goal should be to do 4 complexes in a row with 1 minute of rest where you feel fresh and powerful in the last round. So the closer you get to the fight, the more specific you want to get with your conditioning routine.

Use the tips in this article and you’ll improve your conditioning and your opponents will wish they didn’t waste so much time training doing slow, hour long runs.

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As promised I will be reviewing self defence and martial art DVD’s and books, the first of which is taken from the huge collection donated by Master Russell Stutely Europe’s leading authority on the use of pressure points in the martial arts.

The first DVD I will be reviewing is titled Balance Points this DVD is available as either a download or as hard copy DVD. The viewing quality of the download version is excellent with no problem playing on full screen.

Now to the fun bit the content, as the title suggests this is about balance points and how by following simple rules you can easily unbalance an opponent whilst keeping your own. The importance of balance in any martial art be it boxing or traditional karate can not be over emphasised. Put simply if your opponent is off balance there punches or kicks carry no real power there accuracy goes out of the window in fact they are in a bad place where with you in balance can hit with full power and accuracy. The principles laid out in this amazing DVD apply to any and all martial arts and when you incorporate these principles into your own style you can not help but improve.

Russell makes learning very easy as each lesson is shown slowly from various viewing angles so that the viewer can get to grips with each lesson very easily. One thing he keeps saying is start light and slow to begin with and as your confidence grows increase the power levels. Obviously letting your training partner know as good training partners are hard to find and you do not want to break any.

I have previously stated that the principles laid out in this DVD can be adapted to any and all martial arts this is because we are talking about the body here and what will unbalance the body it means it is the same for everybody irrespective of style or art.

This is a DVD I heartily recommend to any martial artist beginner or black belt you will be bowled over by the simplicity and effectiveness of the techniques shown.

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The following article was written by Eric Wong one of the worlds top strengh and conditioning coaches for pro MMA fighters.

Power is the component needed most by mixed-martial artists. The ability to knock an opponent out with one punch, execute a big throw or takedown, and escape a dangerous position all rely on your ability to generate a lot of force in a short period of time. But training for power is often done incorrectly or is missing components that are necessary to maximize your effectiveness in a fight.

The equation for power is as follows:

Power = Force x Velocity

That means to generate maximum power, you need to be able to a apply a lot of force very quickly. But force and velocity have an inverse relationship, which means that as force increases, velocity decreases, and vice versa.

There are 3 ways that you can increase your power in the gym: use a heavy load to increase your ability to generate force, use a light load to increase your ability to move fast, and use a load that strikes a balance between force and velocity.

All 3 methods should be used to get the best effect. However, your body will adapt best when it is allowed to focus on one or the other for a given movement pattern within a workout. That’s where periodization comes into play.

Let’s say you have 12 weeks until your next fight, you lift weights twice a week. We’ll use the bench press to keep things simple. Regardless of the phase, your goal should be to move the bar as fast as possible during the concentric phase of the exercise. Lower the bar under control, neither slow nor fast.

For Weeks 9-12, focus on building your muscles, tendons, and ligaments, using 6-10 repetitions for 3-5 sets, twice a week. Rest up to 90 seconds between sets to maximize your strength endurance and create some hypertrophy.

In Weeks 6-8, focus on building maximal strength with 2-5 repetitions for 4-7 sets, twice a week. Here, you’ll want to make sure you get at least 2 minutes rest between sets, because you want to allow your neuromuscular system time to recuperate, which takes longer than your muscles. A lot of strength building is due to increased activation of motor units, not just hypertrophy.

Now for Weeks 3-5, I’ll have my athletes train maximal strength for one session as in the previous phase, and maximal velocity another session. To train maximal velocity, pick a weight that’s about 65% of your 1-rep max, and lift for 8 sets of 3 reps. Rest about 1 minute between sets. Alternatively I’ll use exercises like explosive clap push-ups instead of the bench press, since it allows you to not slow the movement down.

For the 2 Weeks leading up to the fight, I have my athletes go down to 1 weight lifting session a week, where they’ll train at approximately 85% of their 1-rep max, and perform 6 sets of 3 reps, resting about 90 seconds between sets. This is the tapering phase, which will keep the athlete both strong and fast.

So this template can be applied to any exercise, for example it works well with Back squats, Deadlifts and Rows. Following this template will maximize your power and explosiveness, bringing you one step closer to winning the fight with a big knockout or submission.

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When you think of a core exercise, most people think of doing situps, crunches, and the hundreds of variations of these exercises. These exercises are good for when you’re on your back in MMA, but aren’t as applicable to developing your core for striking power.

To develop your core so that your punches and kicks get harder and faster, you need to train your core in a standing position.

The medicine ball is the perfect tool to use to develop explosive hands because it develops your rotational power. But using the medicine ball requires you to be able to throw it – something not possible for many people who train in the gym (or have to train in the gym in winter, like here in Canada).

To get the same benefits as using a medicine ball, you can use a heavy bag.

You’re going to learn 2 exercises that will really develop explosive striking and you can do them at your MMA club.

Here’s the first one:

Heavy Bag Chest Throw

1. Stand in front of a heavy bag and push it up until it’s at a 45 degree angle and you’re holding your body at an angle
2. Take a wide stance and bend your knees to get in a quarter squat position
3. Throw the bag up and forward and catch it and repeat immediately

This exercise gives you the sagittal plane stability that you need to keep a solid base when you lean into a punch and connect.

The next exercise gives you the transverse plane stability for generating explosiveness in your strikes:

Heavy Bag Hand-to-Hand Pass

1. Stand in front of a heavy bag with a wide stance and bent knees
2. Keep good posture throughout
3. Throw the ball with one hand to the other as hard and fast as you can without losing your posture
4. Keep your abs tight (braced)

Now for each of these exercises, you want to do them quickly and explosively, but never lose your posture. Maintaining your posture is how you train the core muscles, once you lose it, the muscles you want to be working stop.

Instead of doing these exercises for reps, do them for time. Do as many as you can in 10-15 seconds, rest a minute between sets, then repeat for 3-5 sets each. You can also super set them, depending on your current fitness level and what you want to get out of the training.

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Why bother with Kata?
You hear this all the time don’t you? Kata is nothing like a fight, why bother with Kata? You don’t see any Kata moves in the UFC, why bother with Kata? You don’t see any fancy Kata moves outside the chip shop on a Saturday night, why bother with Kata? I don’t know what those moves really mean, why bother with Kata? Why try and learn something that takes ages to get right? I want to learn to fight NOW, why bother with Kata? I am only learning this Kata to pass the next grade, why bother with Kata? And so on and so on…
Kata is, perhaps, the most mis-understood aspects of the Martial Arts. Some “experts” call it the secrets of fighting, some “experts” say that Kata are weapons only forms with little or no application empty handed, some “experts” claim to have discovered the “real meanings”. Some “experts” who once taught Kata Bunkai now teach MMA instead and have written off Kata. So, what is Kata then?
The simple answer, which sounds like a get out, is this; Kata is what you want it to be! Plain and simple. Look, if ALL you want to do is learn how to fight on the “street”… go pick a few fights… you WILL learn or die trying.
If ALL you want to do is be a MMA Fighter, then go train in that and get in the cage / ring… you WILL learn or get beat up trying.
Those two examples are VERY short lives in the Martial Arts. We used to say that anyone who went from style to style and only stayed a few months at each, was the type of person with no real commitment to learning and usually not talented enough to get a Black Belt.
Today, that person is a “serious” cross trainer taking the best from each Art and making himself a fighter, ready for the cage at a moments notice with the ability to destroy 20 year Black Belt veterans. With the severe decline in the “actual understanding of Karate” in the recent years… that is probably true now!
What does any of this rant actually have to do with Kata?
Quite a lot actually…
You see, that person going from style to style, that our little Karate world used to ridicule so much… is in fact, without knowing it probably, doing EXACTLY what all Martial Artists SHOULD be doing, trying to learn a complete system. He is learning a “complete system” for a cage fight.
As Karateka we should be learning a “complete system” for Self Defence. Which, by the way, is VERY different from a cage fight. If that needs explaining, then you have no experience of one or either. OF COURSE, there are transferable skills before you start on that one.
Back to the guy going from style to style… he is doing Kata for Cage Combat, Kata for sport so as to speak. Every time he shadow boxes, every time he does paired up drills, every time he does situational sparring, every time he does open sparring and yes EVERY time he fights.
His BASICS, look the same as his drills(Kata) and sparring (The Bunkai) , which look the same as his fight(Oyo). He learns one way of doing things. Example; His jab is done the same way in the air, as it is on the pads, as it is in sparring as it is in a fight! Replicate that with each and every technique and you can appreciate why that guy can beat most Black Belts in a very short time period. His training methods and application are simply superior for the job at hand!
As Karateka, we have somehow lost our way. Our basics look little like our kata, which looks NOTHING LIKE our sparring, which just does not resemble our fighting. Where has it all gone wrong?
It’s quite simple really, we have “mixed” up our training process, we have become confused about what we want, what we are trying to achieve, what are our goals?
That MMA guy is VERY CLEAR as to his goals. He then sets about the business of achieving them in the shortest time frame. It is VERY SIMPLE in concept, learn to fight for the cage, get fit, get in and fight!
We Karateka have too many mixed messages going on; Karate is for REAL Self Defence. Karate is for enlightenment. Karate is to achieve a higher level of consciousness. Karate is about “the Way” or the “Do”.
Only you really know what you want to achieve from your Karate training! Karate can bring you all of the above and much more if you let it. It CAN bring you the attributes of the MMA Sporting guy. It CAN bring the attributes of the street thug. It CAN bring you the attributes of the “enlightened one”.
Again, what does all this have to with Kata? Why bother with Kata?
OK… as a taster for you, here is a massive sweeping statement that should get a few people going; Kata is the BASIS for all MMA Sports fights, ALL Street fights and EVERY aspect of your Martial Arts training!
That’s a light the blue touch paper statement right there!
Over the coming months my team and I will “analyse” some Kata movements for you… you will see them in the form of “the Art”; “The Fight”; “The Spar”; “The Drill” and “The REAL Fight”.
Why bother with Kata? Well without it, you would not be training! You will see… Till next time.

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This article was written by Jeff Anderson,Jeff is a world renowned expert in the field of self defense and has in his career taught civilian, police and military alike.  His  self defense courses,books and DVD’s have all been best sellers which is testament to the quality of this amazing coach and author.  To find out more for yourself about Jeff just follow the link. Click Here!

A common self defense trick that many experts instruct is that, when somebody comes up to you and starts threatening you, you should set up your defense by adopting a “ready stance” that looks passive but still protects your upper body. For example, your hands should be up and open as if saying, “I don’t want to fight.” but you should still have your body in a position to defend yourself if needed. This isn’t such bad advice. Unfortunately it requires your brain and your body to be speaking the same language and 95% of the time, I see trainees unable to overcome this obstacle even in relaxed self defense training scenarios. It gets much harder in the adrenaline charged real world self defense scenario. Here’s what I mean… When posturing for self defense, tricks like holding your hands up and saying, “I don’t want to fight” often aren’t perceived that way. Somebody who’s angry, drunk, or just not paying attention won’t hear you telling him you “don’t want any trouble.” If your body is in a “ready” stance, when your hands come up, he may actually see you looking for a fight, and that’s all he’ll process. Bystanders might think the same thing; they may not hear or remember that you said you didn’t want trouble. In addition, to defend yourself, you need to have the survival mind-set to rip your attacker’s head off if needed, right? Well your brain is then thinking “self defense”, tricking your body language to show that you’re really ready to fight despite your submissive words. To better de-escalate the confrontation and also get your attacker to lower his guard if you need to defend yourself, here’s a self defense trick that will fool any attacker and not only set you up for a surprise preemptive attack…but also “look” more like self defense to those around you for the police report that results: Surprise Self-Defense Trick, Step 1: First, turn to the side. This is like blading your body, but it’s more extreme than that. You’re putting most of your body farther away from your attacker while putting your lead hand closer to him. Surprise Self-Defense Trick, Step 2: Next, hunch your shoulders. This looks passive; it’s a submission cue programmed into our primitive brains, a visual prompt from the animal kingdom that makes you look like you’re afraid and unwilling to fight back. Surprise Self-Defense Trick, Step 3: Talk with your hands. While you’re busy telling your attacker that you don’t want any trouble, maybe even offering to buy him a drink if you’re in a bar, get him used to seeing your hands move around. That way, when you finally do move, you’ll take him by surprise. Surprise Self-Defense Trick, Step 4: If he refuses to deescalate, strike him. You can do a simple palm heel blow with your lead hand, which is already halfway to your target by the time you do it… and you’ll take your attacker completely by surprise as you preempt his attack. This is a very effective sneak-attack approach to self-defense. Trick your opponent into thinking you’re a submissive weakling and you’ll trick anybody else who might be watching. You’ll program them to think you’re the victim, and you’ll walk away the winner…and survivor. Click Here! Tweet