Senshido - Reality Beyond Martial Arts

September 15, 2008

Richard Dimitri - Senshido Senshido will demystify many myths surrounding the martial arts.
It will redefine your beliefs.
It will unlock your potential and enhance your intuitive radar.

1. The primary concern is avoidance.
2. The second is de-escalation.
3. The third if the first two fail - is protective offense.

Richard Dimitri is considered to be one of the world’s leading authorities on personal protection and hand to hand combat. His martial arts training dates back to 1975 and he has been teaching since 1987. He now overlooks ‘Senshido’.

Richard secured himself as one of the top reality based self-defense experts in under 7 years with almost no advertising and minimal exposure. Although considered very ‘underground’, his programs and drills have been integrated by martial artists, law enforcement officers and civilians the world over. His research and martial arts training is backed by much experience where he had to apply his skills both physical and psychological while working as an undercover security guard, a bouncer and bodyguard for high profile clients. Mr. Dimitri’s research in psychology began academically and
has since spanned over 15 years.

Richard also developed a close quarter conceptual tool known as The Shredder™ (see lower down) which has become one of the most talked about innovations in modern self-defense and martial arts training worldwide. The Shredder has been referred to as THE MISSING LINK IN THE MARTIAL ARTS / SELF DEFENSE WORLD.

People from all over the world have traveled extensively to Montreal to train with Richard Dimitri including Brazil, Greenland, Finland, Germany, The Middle East, Venezuela, The UK and the United States. Today, Richard’s Senshido continues to grow worldwide and has currently saved numerous lives with people writing and personally coming to his door to thank him for their lives as his training provided them with the necessary tools to effectively survive violence.

In Senshido, Richard continues his research and his methods continue to evolve. Senshido Combative Science Technologies is there to help people protect themselves and their loved ones and to improve people’s lives by empowering them, ridding them of the victim mentality and offering them researched behavioural tactics that are applicable to any confrontation whether violent or nonviolent in nature. Senshido also promotes health, fitness, peace of mind, self-confidence and a positive outlook on life.

The primary directive is enhancing your survivability. Like Jim Wagner Training, Senshido realistically addresses both the physical as well as the much often-neglected psychological and emotional components of violent confrontations.

Principles are based on natural patterns of psychological & physical defenses, as well as human behaviour in relation to extreme violence, aggression, desperation, drugs and alcohol.These principles have been acquired through real life experiences and extensive research, as well as countless interviews with rape and assault victims and individuals in high-risk occupations.

The physical portions of Senshido’s training regimen are kept simple, direct and effective. The skills are quickly learned and never forgotten since they use the natural reflexive response mechanism as a starting point and abide by the physiological rules that govern the human body. This includes the understanding of primary and secondary targets as well the physical tools used in conjunction with natural stances and responses to be applied regardless of the situation and its environment.

Experience and research on performance enhancement psychology, criminal psychology and human behavior shows that stress and fear caused by unpredictable confrontations predominantly afflicts an individual’s performance due to lack of information on the given subject and/or situation.

Senshido’s Personal Protection Program is designed to enhance your survivability. You will learn to heighten your awareness and accurately read your intuition in order to avoid violence, aggression and confrontation. You will learn to de-escalate and defuse a potential aggressive or violent situation using psychological warfare and strategy. You will also learn to physically defend yourself against the most common attacks on the street if avoidance and de-escalation failed.

Senshido’s group class programs are divided into 3 PHASES.

* PHASE 1 - The Personal Protection Program
* PHASE 2 - The Hand to Hand Combat Program
* PHASE 3 - 2 Day Boot Camp “The Zombie Squad”

When we talk about reality based training - take a quick look at what is in Phase One of Senshido’s Personal Protection Program that enhances Survivability and Gaining the Tactical Edge and see if it matches up to what you want and what you are getting from your present studies!

Phase 1 __________________________

Have you ever been attacked?
Have you ever been sexually assaulted or raped?
Have you ever felt violated or threatened?
Maybe mugged, beaten or placed in a violent confrontation?
Have you ever felt like you were no longer in control?

The Personal Protection Program will teach you the following:

* Strategies and Tactics
* Awareness and Intuition
* Psychological Warfare
* Behavioral Elements
* Reading Body Language
* Recognizing signals of aggression and violence
* Reflexive Response Conditioning
* The Shredder™
* Senshido’s 5 Principals of Physical Retaliation™
* Opportunity Interception
* Ground fighting
* Close Quarter Combat
* Defense against the most common attacks

The Training: Unlike most self-defense training, Senshido’s Personal Protection Program factors behavioural elements and environment into all drills and scenarios. It’s one thing to learn and practice in an open controlled space in bare feet and loose pants, but most assaults do not happen under these conditions. They happen in closed small spaces like elevators, bathroom stalls; in bars, pushed up against a wall; while you are wearing regular pants, tight skirts, high heels, boots, backpacks etc. It is these realistic conditions which Senshido re-creates and participants prepare for.

Some of the scenarios Senshido’s PPP incorporates in their training and seminars include the following:

* Date Rapes
* The Street fight
* Bus Stop
* In parks
* Elevator
* Staircase
* Carrying bags
* In car & carjacking
* In bed
* Bar scenes
* Exiting club bathroom
* Metro/Subway
* Being mounted or straddled
* Mouthed off at
* ATM
* Static knife and gun attacks
* Movie theater
* Muggings

These scenarios & environments, and more, including participant’s suggestions and actual “lived” scenarios are covered extensively and in their entirety. Senshido will take any on the spot scenarios and break them down for you in order to find the best possible solutions for that particular scene.

* Confrontation analysis also available.

Senshido uses “bad guys” role players in mock attacks which participants defend against in all scenarios. Applying what is taught, participants immediately experience and realize the abilities within themselves. Our “bad guys” wear only head and groin protectors, allowing them full range of motion and speed as well as reacting the way a real aggressor actually would, making the scenario as realistic as possible.

* Clients having previously been through violent confrontations or sexual assaults are interviewed, counseled and prepared beforehand.

For all Richards Programs based within Senshido, go to his site at http://www.senshido.com

Malcolm Keith
UltimatePressurePoints
PeterboroughMartialArts
YoshikiGoshinJutsu

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