What do you see as the goal of unarmed skills in your defensive arsenal?
What do you study & why?
How do you study, train, etc?
For me, unarmed skills along with everything else are simply tools that I have available to allow me to extract me and mine from a situation that I'd rather not be in, while having negative harmful impact on me and mine. Given that most fights happen in "the space of a phone booth", to quote Tony Blauer, I realize that accessing a physical tool may not be initially viable. Having unarmed responses to allow me to dominate the opening engagement will either preclude the necessity of my having to access a tool, or allow me the space/time to do so.
I'm also a big beleiver in "less is more". If I can accomplish 90% of what I need to in the unarmed arena with 2 tools, this pleases me. The fewer decisions that I have to make in the heat of battle, the better off I am. (Hick's Law & OODA loop wise) To that end, I work the tools that I learned in the Insights Training Center unarmed program and tools drawn from WWII combatives training and a few other sources. A lot of the sports pyschology, physiology consepts and ideas, and drill-designs from Tony Blauer and from Scott Sonnon have had a strong influence on what we do too.
Me and my associates [about five guys who show up with any regularity] train every Wednesday evening from around 1900 to around 2300. We work static drills and sequences on Spar-Pros, we work fluid drills with each other. We do as much scenario-based/Dynamic stuff as we can. We do what we can, with what we have, to get valid reps on a limited range of skillsets to allow us, theoretically, the greatest likelihood of accessing the tools we need under duress. It looks like our next step will be to acquire a FIST suit of our own and really work the Dynamic scenarios.
What do you study & why?
How do you study, train, etc?
For me, unarmed skills along with everything else are simply tools that I have available to allow me to extract me and mine from a situation that I'd rather not be in, while having negative harmful impact on me and mine. Given that most fights happen in "the space of a phone booth", to quote Tony Blauer, I realize that accessing a physical tool may not be initially viable. Having unarmed responses to allow me to dominate the opening engagement will either preclude the necessity of my having to access a tool, or allow me the space/time to do so.
I'm also a big beleiver in "less is more". If I can accomplish 90% of what I need to in the unarmed arena with 2 tools, this pleases me. The fewer decisions that I have to make in the heat of battle, the better off I am. (Hick's Law & OODA loop wise) To that end, I work the tools that I learned in the Insights Training Center unarmed program and tools drawn from WWII combatives training and a few other sources. A lot of the sports pyschology, physiology consepts and ideas, and drill-designs from Tony Blauer and from Scott Sonnon have had a strong influence on what we do too.
Me and my associates [about five guys who show up with any regularity] train every Wednesday evening from around 1900 to around 2300. We work static drills and sequences on Spar-Pros, we work fluid drills with each other. We do as much scenario-based/Dynamic stuff as we can. We do what we can, with what we have, to get valid reps on a limited range of skillsets to allow us, theoretically, the greatest likelihood of accessing the tools we need under duress. It looks like our next step will be to acquire a FIST suit of our own and really work the Dynamic scenarios.