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SELF DEFENSE
In martial arts, the more I learned, the
more I realized how much I didn’t know. There is no substitute
for training - period. For the most part, while the man comes first
and the style comes second, I’ve found that I prefer Japanese
styles in terms of combat effectiveness more than Korean (Tae Kwon
Do) or Chinese (Kung Fu). This is addressed at length in this manual.
Stay in good physical shape, and practice. If
it turns out that during your entire life, you only needed the training
one time, it was worth it.
The focus of much of my martial arts training
was on just that: FOCUS. By eliminating emotional involvement in
the battle, and concentrating your focus on "target acquisition"
only, training takes over. What is the core of the enemy's attack?
Find it and attack it. I do not defend. "Self defense"
is a misnomer for me. Like a good offense in chess that leaves no
openings, I have made that the principle element of my defense,
focusing always on the attack. I may appear momentarily defensive
to pull an attacker off balance and expose him, but it is a trap.
My retreat is almost always a ruse to “over-extend”
the attacker, and then I attack where he is weakest. Never forget,
however, that the situation dictates the rule. That means that there
is NOTHING for which there is not an exception. I am making that
qualification now because I simply am not going to “qualify”
every definitive statement herein. When I make a definitive statement,
it is true the overwhelming majority of the time. In a practical
world, that will have to do.
There are several basic and fundamental principles
to my martial art:
- When your attacker finds himself being attacked, his focus switches
from you to himself. If he is now busy defending himself, he is
not busy attacking you. Your total focus must be on the attacker
- on the destruction of the attacker, or attackers. Destroy the
enemy. Destroy their ability to be a threat. Nothing else exists.
- Every technique must be offensive and defensive at the same
time. Never use a movement just for positioning or balance. Once
engaged, every movement must be a function of your attack. Proper
use of balance and technique means that no movement is wasted.
Balance is maintained. All punches are chambered in front of you,
never behind or at your hip or side, that way every chamber is
a guard, accomplishing a seamless integration of both offense
and defense; simultaneously, fluidly.
- While power comes from circular movements, those movements
are internal. The shortest distance between two points is a straight
line. Fancy techniques are for the movies, not the real world.
Keeping your chambers in front not only protects you, but it shortens
the distances your hands have to travel by sometimes more than
50%. That means you automatically become twice as fast. By using
your body, not your arms to punch, and by going through the target,
you will have speed and power, without telegraphing your techniques.
- By not using movements just to go to chamber, you can create
an unbroken flow of strikes that wash over your enemy like a wave.
An unrelenting attack without openings or respite has the greatest
chance of success. It is better to take a little bit off a strike
(and not load up for a single full-power strike) and strike 30
times rather than once. If I hit you with 80% of my power, its
enough. When I hit you 30 times in unbroken succession with 80%
of my power, it is art. “Loading up” for a total power
strike telegraphs your techniques. Anyone can throw a punch or
a kick. Getting them “in” is something else. By taking
a little off, you can strike repeatedly, smoothly, with a minimum
of energy drain, limited exposure, and no wasted movement.
- NEVER leave a functioning enemy at your back. You do not stop
until the enemy is completely disabled and no longer a threat.
Mercy is not a virtue here. You do not show mercy to someone who
has attacked you. Period. An unprovoked attack is totally without
mercy or any other human consideration towards you. An unprovoked
attacker is an animal, without any moral sense or ethics. You
don’t show a poisonous snake mercy because it did not succeed
in killing you with the first strike. You kill it. Why? Because
if you don’t, it will bite you, or someone else. The mercy
you show is for the next potential victim, when you eliminate
an animal that preys on others.
- The law says that you have the right to use deadly force to
repel deadly force. If your life is in danger, you attack the
threat, you overwhelm it, and you kill it. Period.
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