пятница, 7 января 2011 г.
Women’s Self Defence
By Chris Boyd
At the end of a self defence course the expectation is that the attendees are better equipped to be able to defend themselves. Given that these courses are run over a very limited time course, it’s a big ask.
Likewise with Karate, kung fu or whatever, part of the deal is wanting to feel safer by being able to defend ourselves in times of danger. Over a short period of time it is unrealistic to expect sufficient skills to be covered for someone to be able to defend themselves against a variety of attacks. However, it must be possible to be able to improve the chances of managing effective self defence.
A good self defence course, or self defence section of a martial arts style, should cover the following;
Awareness and avoidance – being aware of potential danger is the easiest way to avoid it, providing someone with the skills to spot trouble is essential.
Simple effective defence techniques – skills for standing and ground defence need to be included. These should be simple, gross motor skills rather than complex, fine motor skills.
Power production – in theory it is good to keep the training arena safe but once learned the delivery of a technique must be ramped up so it can be thrown with power.
Movement skills – effective movement skills are critical in both the delivery of techniques and to be able to fashion an exit from an attack. This is especially so for multiple attackers.
Pressure testing – once learned skills should be applied under increasingly difficult situations approaching what a real fight would be like.
Not all self defence courses have the time to cover all of these aspects as often training will only be available for as little as one afternoon per year, for certain at risk jobs. The wrost thing, however, is to omit some kind of skill testing.
It is all very well to teach techniques which allow a person to escape from any number of nasty situations but if the training attacker is only employed in a perfunctory manner then there is no way of knowing if the technique will work in the real world. Although obvious, it is essential that acquired skills are tested to a level where it could fail. If you never test it properly you have no idea whether it will work in a ‘live’ situation!
This is critical, if your technique doesn’t work for you under ‘safe’ pressure it needs to be replaced by one that does. Even the seemingly easiest to learn technique can fall apart when it is tried under the pressure of someone ‘really’ attacking you. In this case it should be dropped no matter how much you like it, or at least relegated to certain instances only, ie. those where you can get it to work. It is better to spend time developing techniques that work than to waste time practising a favourite skill.
If your self defence is important enough to train for it is important enough to train for properly and effectively!
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Want to read more about women’s self defence? Click through to the Epic Martial Arts Blog for more information and tips on all kinds of martial arts skills and particularly these two posts, firstly, http://epicmartialartsblog.com/self-defence-for-women-rape-defence and secondly http://epicmartialartsblog.com/adding-the-live-to-rape-defence which cover methods for effectively training self defence for women.
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