Martial Arts – Chinese Yoga or Yi- Jin Jing External Qi Gong

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This is the Tip of the Month for April 2010. Go to our website www.ShaolinArizona.com for more! Do these 3 postures for 7 breaths each and gradually build your strength and mental focus to 49 breaths! Have fun!

DVDs are a great way to have training on tap to back up your normal weekly training and a chance to see how other instructors do forms or interpret movements. You should also try to expand your knowledge and experience in your art and also get to know about other people’s art so you understand what is out there.

Some of the best bargains in martial art dvd’s and books can be found by clicking on a link below

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What Is BAR – Body Alarm Reaction?

Over the years much has been written about Self Defense training.. there have been a multitude of experts out there all with the latest and best up to date methods of dealing with a surprise attack.

Nothing so far has created the instant results that you can expect from Body Alarm Reaction (BAR) from Europe’s No.1 Pressure Point Expert, Russell Stutely.

Imagine this scenario:

You are out with your friends or family and some jerk decides to attack you SUDDENLY and VIOLENTLY for NO REASON.

In a split second you have to REACT and STOP the assault

You DO NOT have time to learn loads of fancy techniques. You DO NOT have time to train up to be a fighter.

You need something that you can LEARN QUICKLY and that has a PROVEN TRACK RECORD of working… IN THE WORST CASE SCENARIOS.

Well.. here it is.. Body Alarm Reaction (BAR)

This is the best kept secret in the world of REAL SELF DEFENSE!

A secret that only a handful of people were privvy to. A secret that has enabled Law Enforcement Officers and Security Personnel to get home safe and sound every night.. but left attackers in a crumpled daze!

It takes people with NO PREVIOUS TRAINING about one hour of proper practice to get this life saving method down.

Just imagine how powerful you will feel, knowing that you have the ability (should you ever need it) to drop an attacker instantly and effectively.

Here is the link for more information:

Body Alarm Reaction (BAR)

So What is BAR?

OK… Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of the thug / mugger or just bad guy that is about to attack you or your loved ones.

BEFORE they attack they have made several decisions:

* Can I win?
* Do I have back up?
* Does my Victim have Back Up?
* Does my victim know I am going to attack?

This thug has gone through all the DIFFICULT decisions about entering into a violent assault… he has weighed up all the Pro’s and Cons and decided YES.. Now is the time to attack!

He has, as I like to put it “seen the light at the end of the tunnel”

Now… BAR.
What that attacker THINKS is the light at the end of the tunnel is REALLY the “HEADLIGHTS OF YOU COMING STRAIGHT AT HIM!”

Body Alarm Reaction (BAR)…more information..

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Yours in Self Defense

Russell Stutely
OCFM International Coach
PPDT International Instructor

Martial Arts Myths 2 of 12

The Hits and Myths of Martial Arts – Myth 2

by
Chris Hepler and Jennifer Brandes
A Role Playing Games Perspective

Myth 2: Self-defense is the same thing as fighting.

Self-defense, the goal of most martial artists, is about keeping yourself alive. This is not merely knowing how to break someone’s arm or even being able to run very fast -it is recognizing all the factors that can threaten your life and negating them. This is everything from locking your doors at night to blocking a punch. The key to successfully defending yourself is being aware of a potential threat and responding.

The GURPS, Rolemaster, Legend of the Five Rings, and Shadowrun systems basically have it right — barring super powers, all the fighting skills in the world don’t help if you get blind-sided by someone with a brick. A large aspect of self-defense is, therefore, noticing the guy lurking at the train station before he gives your character an impromptu lobotomy. Once you know he’s there, you can run, get to a public place, and so on, avoiding fighting at all. Even if you choose to fight, it is a major advantage to control when and where “the fight starts,” that is, when both combatants are acting at once. If the fight starts after the attacker knocks the victim down, pins her, and draws a knife, and only then does the victim start struggling, it’s vastly different than two people agreeing to “put up their dukes.”

In roleplaying games, the prelude to a fight is often ignored. Players figure that GMs will ask for a Perception test if there’s an ambush planned, and if not, that it was unavoidable. Then the combat starts, and everyone concentrates on trading blows. To make combat more interesting and more vivid, take a holistic approach to self defense -look for potential conflicts before they start and find creative ways out of it once punches start flying. Combat should be exciting for both GMs and players, an opportunity for both roleplaying and team building.

It can make for more realistic games if character awareness coincides with player awareness. And this calculating of the odds shouldn’t drop once you start rolling dice. It’s pretty easy to “beat the crap out of someone” if you have a mind to. The difficult thing is beating the crap out of someone while they’re trying to do the same to you and walking away afterwards.

So use everything you’ve got, especially your friends. One advantage RPGs have over real life is that you’re rarely going to be attacked alone. If the whole party pays attention to each others’ actions, you can use teamwork to increase everyone’s chances.

Don’t wait to be told about the light glinting off the assassin’s rifle on the roof above you — if you think someone wants to kill you, tell the GM that you’re watching the rooftops, and the alleys, and the guy from the bar who left right after you. Ask how many potential opponents there are…before the GM tells you to roll initiative. Keep an eye out for any six-packs of young men in leather and while you’re at it, don’t deal drugs or have sex with their girlfriends on their turf. Ask yourself if you can beat the opponents before you get in the fight, rather than trying it for a few rounds and then realizing you were supposed to scatter. And have a back-up plan ready — just because your first punch doesn’t work doesn’t mean you can’t splash beer in their eyes and run while they’re blinded.

This is where you can pull out a trump card on a well-designed martial artist character: a sky-high athletics or running skill. If you’re a bad fighter, you can get out of range (and find cover in case they have guns or bows). And if you’re a good fighter, it means no villain’s henchman is getting away from you without a good horse or a car.

Other Myths…

1. Taking a martial art is the same as knowing how to fight.
2. Self-defense is the same thing as fighting.
3. My martial art can make you unbeatable.
4. There’s no difference between “fighting” or “kicking butt” and killing or maiming people.
5. Fights last ten minutes or more, at which time the hero can make an impressive comeback.
6. A fight only concerns the combatants.
7. Martial artists don’t need or use weapons.
8. Fighting with two weapons is difficult or confusing.
9. Weapons are heavy.
10. You can mash someone’s nose bones into their brain and kill them with a single mighty palm strike.
11. All martial arts look like Tae Kwon Do.
12. A style is a style.

The Award Winning Multiplied Force Fighting System (MFFS) 5 DVD Set.

American Kempo Karate Techniques : Kenpo Karate Snapping Twig Techniques

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Learn Kenpo karate snapping twig techniques in this free American Kenpo martial arts training video. Expert: Joe Palanzo Contact: www.wkka.org Bio: Joe Palanzo is a tenth degree black belt in Kenpo, and has operated a successful martial arts school in Baltimore,MD since 1969. Filmmaker: Antar Hanif

DVDs are a great way to have training on tap to back up your normal weekly training and a chance to see how other instructors do forms or interpret movements. You should also try to expand your knowledge and experience in your art and also get to know about other people’s art so you understand what is out there.

Some of the best bargains in martial art dvd’s and books can be found by clicking on a link below

Martial Art Videos and DVDs and Books

Chinese Martial Art Videos and DVDs

Karate Martial Arts Videos and DVDs

Judo Martial Arts Videos and DVDs

Aikido Martial Arts Videos and DVDs

Tang Soo Do Martial Arts and DVDs

Taekwondo Martial Arts and DVDs

Reality Based Videos and DVDs

Introduction to the School of Chinese Martial Arts in Parker, CO

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An overview of our first month

DVDs are a great way to have training on tap to back up your normal weekly training and a chance to see how other instructors do forms or interpret movements. You should also try to expand your knowledge and experience in your art and also get to know about other people’s art so you understand what is out there.

Some of the best bargains in martial art dvd’s and books can be found by clicking on a link below

Martial Art Videos and DVDs and Books

Chinese Martial Art Videos and DVDs

Karate Martial Arts Videos and DVDs

Judo Martial Arts Videos and DVDs

Aikido Martial Arts Videos and DVDs

Tang Soo Do Martial Arts and DVDs

Taekwondo Martial Arts and DVDs

Reality Based Videos and DVDs

Self Defense 101

Where to Start, What to Look For, What to Avoid, Who to Train With

First of all, I prefer the term Personal Protection or Protective Offense to Self Defense, for the former is proactive (placing you mentally in control of the situation) while the latter is reactive (makes you feel like a victim waiting for something to happen before choosing a response).

An article by Georges Z. Fahmy, Senshido Affiliate Instructor for the Greater Middle East Area.

“Like many people out there, I turned to Self Defense to avoid, escape, or survive violence (in my case, High School Bullying). To help you guys and gals avoid the hassles I went through, and save you time and money, I’ve decided to write this article to outline what you should be looking for in a Self Defense school/ system/ method.

Choosing to train in Traditional Martial Arts (TMA) schools, like Karate, Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Do, Wing Chun, Kali, Aikido, Systema, etc should not be your objective if you seek to learn Personal Protection (PP). Although the abovementioned styles and systems are beautiful, culturally rich and allow their users to become disciplined, these methodologies have remained fixed in time, not evolving with the rising tide of violence, or are found lacking in one or more aspects. I personally trained in Chinese Kung Fu while a child (from age 10 to 15) and am proud to say that the art has allowed me to be flexible, fit, as well as disciplined.

Sadly, it did not help me in learning effective and realistic PP.

Combat Sports like Muay Thai, Boxing, Kick Boxing, Wrestling (Greco-Roman, Freestyle, or Catch-As-Catch-Can), Judo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ), Sambo, and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA, also called Vale Tudo), among others, are very beneficial in developing a fighter’s toolbox. However, these arts and systems while allowing you to dominate a single, unarmed opponent, do not fare as well against multiples or armed aggressors. Additionally, it lacks the crucial pre-contact (psychological, emotional, and behavioral) as well as post-contact (evasion, legality, revenge and other factors) aspects a respected Self Defense methodology must have to be complete. I personally favour and wholeheartedly recommend training in MMA, as well as BJJ and Catch-Wrestling, for they teaches an individual useful tools, covers striking, grappling, and submissions, conditions its aficionados to full contact full speed training, and provides a great workout.

The third category people encounter while looking for Self Defense instruction are Reality Based Self Defense (RBSD) programs. The name itself, as Richard Dimitri, Senshido’s founder, states, is an oxymoron: RBSD as opposed to what? Unreality Based Self Defense? Nevertheless, many so called RBSD schools are just TMA repackaged, without uniforms and belts. Others are taken from Military systems (Krav Maga, Kapap, WWII Combatives) and may not be applicable by civilians because of numerous factors (such as legal, use of force, etc).

How do you distinguish between the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?

Well, for a PP methodology to be efficient, applicable by anyone (regardless of sex, age, build, strength%u2026), and realistic, it needs to cover the all-important trinity of emotional, behavioral and psychological training. Cover, not dabble in, not mention – fully cover.

These three elements have to be addressed across the three phases of combat, namely the Pre-Contact, Contact, and Post-Contact aspects.

Allow me to outline each phase in detail:

- Pre-Contact phase includes awareness training, fear/ anger/ adrenal management, evasion and escape tactics, understanding the criminal mind, tactical assessment of one’s environment, and much more

- Contact phase includes one’s ability to protect oneself and others from armed as well as unarmed assaults while covering the ballistic, kinetic, edged, striking, kicking, close quarters, grappling, and ground fighting ranges against one or more aggressors

- Post-Contact includes the legally of one’s actions, talking to the police, preventing revenge attacks, debriefing and analyzing the confrontation for enhancing one’s survivability, etc

For one to be ready to survive modern violence, I believe it is vital to train full speed, full force, with intent, while replicating realistic scenarios that induce an adrenaline dump similar to the one experienced in actual life. If what you do works under these conditions, then it is a realistic PP training methodology. If it doesn’t, then it isn’t and you need to change what you’re doing.

I have searched for a methodology that fully integrates all these aforementioned crucial elements and am glad to have discovered Senshido in 2002. After comparing it to other, more technical RBSD approaches, I decided to train in it and one day become an instructor. This great honour was mine in December 2006 and became responsible for the Greater Middle East Area since that day.”

Take care and stay safe.

Georges Z. Fahmy
Senshido Affiliate Instructor for the Greater Middle East Area, spanning from North Africa to Indian subcontinent.

Do you have any questions, comments or are you looking for training and seminars in the Greater Middle East Area? Visit my site www.senshido.net , email me at info@senshido.net, or call me on + 961 3 499 712 .

Senshido saying of the week: “Rather than provide technical aspects for people to use in specific situations, we provide analytical skills that will be useful in any situation”

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