Welcome back!The other night at training one of peers was taking the class and he had us doing an arm lock in response to a double lapel grab. The technique involved taking control of your opponent’s wrist and then taking the elbow and whipping the arm. If done correctly, the whipping movement will break your opponents [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Street Defense'
Power Punching Revisited
December 3rd, 2009 · Comments · Training Advice
“Before I started training in the martial arts a punch was just a punch, a kick just a kick. When I started, a punch was no longer just a punch, a kick no longer just a kick. Now that I understand training, a punch is again, just a punch, a kick just a [...]
Review: Geoff Thompson Masterclass
November 8th, 2009 · Comments · General
Regular readers of this blog will be well aware of my respect and admiration for Geoff Thompson. To my mind, Geoff has done more than any other martial artist today to educate people on the ways of true self defense and how to adapt traditional training methods to meet the demands of real life situations. [...]
Tags: Mastery·Motivation·Psychology·Reviews·Street Defense·Technique
How to Survive a Violent Conflict Part 3
November 6th, 2009 · Comments · Street Self Defense
In this series of articles we have been looking at ways to manage a potentially violent situation and how to stop a situation from spiralling out of control into a fully-fledged fight (or beating, depending who you are up against- and that’s the point, don’t forget, you never know who you’re up against). So far [...]
Tags: Confrontation Management·Distraction Techniques·Law·Pre-Emptive Strike·Street Defense·Striking
How to Survive a Violent Confrontation| Part 2
November 4th, 2009 · Comments · Street Self Defense
In the previous article on this subject we talked about some of the options open to you when approached by a potential attacker on the street. In this article we are going to examine in more detail some of those options.
A lot of people, when they are confronted by an attacker, tend to either freeze [...]
Tags: Confrontation Management·Distraction Techniques·Psychology·Street Defense
How to Survive a Violent Confrontation| Part 1
November 2nd, 2009 · Comments · Street Self Defense
When the successful outcome of a confrontation on the street depends, 99% of the time, on how well you manage the conflict before it gets to fighting stage, why do so many dojos continue to teach students only reactive/defensive techniques that probably won’t work very well come the time anyway?
Actually allowing a confrontation to get [...]
Thugs Get What They Deserve
October 10th, 2009 · Comments · Street Self Defense
I first read about these two incidents in a national newspaper before checking out the footage on Youtube.
The first story involves some brainless thug trying to pick a fight with a guy who has no interest in biting. I have to say I was impressed by the guy’s restraint. I don’t think I could have [...]
Tags: Fighting·Humour·Street Defense
Street Self Defense- Do You Know Too Many Techniques?
October 6th, 2009 · Comments · Street Self Defense
As I have mentioned many times before on this blog and elsewhere, when it comes to effective street self defense it is best to keep things as simple as possible and not over complicate your responses too much. The key to good self defense is to respond to an attack in the simplest way possible [...]
Tags: Bouncing·Fighting·Stories·Street Defense·Technique Log-Jam·Traditional
The Head Butt- Your Secret Street Self Defense Weapon
September 29th, 2009 · Comments · Street Self Defense
Like many martial artists (especially those with a traditional background) I used to consider the head butt as essentially a thugs move. It doesn’t have the same finesse as some martial arts techniques and because almost anyone can do it without any special training I used to think that it didn’t qualify as [...]
Tags: Fighting·Head Butt·Street Defense
Free E-Book!
September 23rd, 2009 · Comments · Street Self Defense
I’m quite excited right now because I’ve just finished my new e-book and now I can give it away to all of you absolutely free!
The book is called Street Smart: The Smart Approach to Street Self Defense, and it’s a fairly quick but informative read on the basics of modern day street self defense.
In it, [...]
