Self-Defense Tip #120 — Fighting Techniques: How to Tell Good Ones from Bad

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Fighting techniques in contact sports

Good techniques cause you no discomfort. An example for strikes and kicks: Your technique is good if you can deliver knockout power without any discomfort on your part.

Causing yourself discomfort when practicing and performing a technique is a sure way to an injury–it may take a while but you will injure yourself. Further, you must overcome the discomfort, which causes a split second delay that ruins your timing and often telegraphs your action.

Tactical considerations for good sports techniques: minimal exposure to counters, easy flow into your other good moves and, should you be outmaneuvered, easy ways out.

Fighting techniques outside of sports (self-defense, combat)

Here, just like in sports, good techniques don’t cause you any discomfort. In addition they must be easy for you–not putting high demands on your body. So, your techniques are not combat-worthy if you must be in peak shape or if you need a warm-up to do them well. Techniques that require you to warm up are for sports or for show, not for self-defense or combat.

Tactical considerations for combat techniques are like those listed for sports techniques but the consequences of selecting the wrong techniques are grave. So select techniques for simplicity and low demands on your fitness.

Now examine your techniques….

By the way:

Great examples of good combat techniques are those taught by Ray Floro in his Essential Military Stick 2 video course. Right at the beginning of part 1 of the course you will see a practically fool-proof technique for self-defense with a stick. The technique’s stance and grip minimize your exposure to attacks and counters to your defenses. The technique is good for both far and close distance. Strikes are easy but very powerful–truly reliable combat techniques.

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Other examples of good combat techniques are shown in the video “Self-Defense Clinch: Grips, Throws, Knee Kicks, Bumps and Trips, Turns, and a Clinch at a Wall” below.

Self-Defense Clinch: Grips, Throws, Knee Kicks, Bumps and Trips, Turns, and a Clinch at a Wall

Self-defense tip from Thomas Kurz, co-author of Basic Instincts of Self-Defense and author of Science of Sports Training, Stretching Scientifically, and Flexibility Express.

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Self-Defense Moves

Basic Instincts of Self-Defense - Defenses Against Unarmed Attacks DVD

For your defense moves to work under stress they must be based on your natural, instinctive reactions, require little strength and limited range of motion, and be proven in fighting experience.

To learn how your natural reactions can instantly defeat any unarmed attack, see the video Basic Instincts of Self-Defense.

Defend Against Weapons

Self-Defense: Tools of Attack DVD

To defend against weapons you have to know how they are used. Also—every stick has two ends … the weapon of attack may become a weapon of defense in your hand …

To learn how the typical street weapons (club, knife, razor) are used by an experienced streetfighter and how to practice with them, see the video Self-Defense: Tools of attack—Club, Hatchet, Blackjack, Knife, Straight Razor.

Mental Toughness

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Staying cool under pressure is more important for self-defense than being physically fit and technically skilled. If you can’t control your mind what can you control?

To learn mental techniques that let you calmly face any threat and act rationally in the heat of a fight, click here.

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