You strike with the largest two knuckles on your hand (index and middle fingers) with a straight wrist. Shadow boxing by itself is a useful tool to practice techniques when you’re alone. If it’s a more chaotic scenario use open fist (striking with inside bony part of your wrist) and your forearms. If an assailant is approaching you and getting too close, and you know violence is inevitable, look over their shoulder and say questioningly, “Is that your car?”. At Primal Survivor we’ve talked about the importance of your health and physical conditioning before.

The Filipino empty-hand art of Panantukan is a highly efficient street fighting method that uses the entire body as a weapon. If you’ve been in any physical confrontation and got yourself out with zero injuries, still go to the doctor. Most importantly you’re going to develop a true confidence in one of these classes. Attacking those areas is reserved for deadly situations, or when faced with an opponent of much greater size than you. The course starts now and never ends! Being calm and measured, a conduit for self-control, is a major aspect of successful street defense. Maintain your foot position as close as possible to shoulder width whenever you can for balance. Cant run so good. For example, you punch with your left hand to make your assailant reflexively move to the right. Late at night, during a favorite TV show, after several drinks, or just before your spouse has to leave for work are options. Now get off your chair, stop fantasizing, and get to drilling. I saved the site to my favs and then checked my email and saw your weekly post. This course is perfect for Instructors of any art who want to add something new to their classes.

I love to save a buck when I can, but when it comes to any kind of fight training, do yourself a favor and buy good quality gear. Our goal today is to provide our readers with a solid foundation of knowledge and expectation when defending yourself. Perhaps most chilling of all, they learnt methods of survival and suicide to deploy in the event of arrest and interrogation by the Gestapo, the German secret police. Depending where you are that means you could be rolling around on broken glass, rocks, and other unpleasant stabby things… or, you could find yourself at the mercy of your attacker’s friends coming to the rescue. Street self defense is not an opportunity to show off what you learned in that Tae Kwon Do class, or to emulate all of those MMA fighters you’ve watched while drinking beer and eating nachos. The Dangers of Fighting Dirty Sometimes people resort to destructive, “dirty fighting” in order to handle interpersonal conflict. In this tactic you respond to any complaint the other raises with one of your own. Your pathetic demeanor makes it hard to discuss issues. This article will explain the most common dirty fighting tactics used by pro fighters in their quest for glory. If you want to learn an ancient art form and get an awesome workout while doing it, take up some traditional martial arts… but if you want to learn how to truly defend yourself, skip the dojo. And believe me, that endurance carries over into the street. Fighting fair means both parties know what the issue is—and stick to the subject. A person in your situation is probably better off carrying some sort of self-defense tool, especially something like pepper spray.

If you are setting up a home gym you’ll need to purchase a good heavy bag (buy a thai bag/banana bag and you’ll thank me later) along with the necessary hardware to set it up. We have an article on this which may be of interest – mental preparedness. Employing these techniques may enable you With over 240 lessons teaching drills, techniques and combinations you will never run out of material for your students. The information presented here is for general educational purposes only. Seriously, whats my bets options? The coupon code you entered is expired or invalid, but the course is still available! The men and women recruited into SOE learnt a vast range of sabotage and assassination techniques. Blow off steam with a series of name-calling, incoherent sentences. In a terrible situation you may need to get creative and stop your attacker. If you’re training at a gym you’ll likely need two pairs of gloves (bag gloves and sparring gloves), a mouth piece, other protective gear (a cup, head gear, etc. If you have friends and training partners, focus mitts and/or thai pads are worth their weight in gold. In this tactic you quote from friends or family who share your opinion and would say so if only they were present. Join a gym if you like using lots of equipment and the social setting of a group fitness area. And since some folks need concrete examples of what not to do, here's a list. Keep moving to minimize any openings.