Self defense against anyone, especially someone armed with an edged weapon, has to be simple, effective and work on your natural reflexes to increase your chance of survival.
The most importance training not to forget is the adrenal stress training self defenses
Understanding fear and the Survival Stress Response
‘'Fear is your best friend and your worst enemy, control it and win."
This video show you how our human body response to adrenal stress situation.
Adrenal stress, which will affect your effectiveness, the other is how training to solve one problem doesn't automatically translate to solving other problems, which is your specific effectiveness.
The adrenal response can also be triggered by non-life threatening high stress incidents, because the mind doesn't differentiate between real and imagined danger.
When we experience excessive stress whether from internal worry or external circumstance a bodily reaction is triggered, called the "fight or flight" response. Originally discovered by the great Harvard physiologist Walter Cannon, this response is hard-wired into our brains and represents a genetic wisdom designed to protect us from bodily harm. This response actually corresponds to an area of our brain called the hypothalamus, which when stimulated initiates a sequence of nerve cell firing and chemical release that prepares our body for running or fighting.
What are the signs that our fight or flight response has been stimulated (activated)?
When our fight or flight response is activated, sequences of nerve cell firing occur and chemicals like adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol are released into our bloodstream.
These patterns of nerve cell firing and chemical release cause our body to undergo a series of very dramatic changes. Our respiratory rate increases. Blood is shunted away from our digestive tract and directed into our muscles and limbs, which require extra energy and fuel for running and fighting. Our pupils dilate. Our awareness intensifies. Our sight sharpens. Our impulses quicken. Our perception of pain diminishes. Our immune system mobilizes with increased activation. We become prepared physically and psychologically for fight or flight. We scan and search our environment, "looking for the enemy.
RULES FOR PHYSICAL CONFRONTATIONS (Taught in most correctional services or police training centres)
1. BE COMMITTED AND EFFECTIVE FROM THE BEGINNING.
2. NEVER SPAR WITH ANYONE.
3. CREATE A DISTRACTION/DYSFUNCTION AND ESCAPE.
4. END IT QUICKLY.
5. ACT BEFORE YOU HAVE TO REACT.
6. PRACTICE MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY.
7. COMPLACENCY KILLS.
8. ADOPT A PROPER MIND SET OF I WILL WIN. I WILL SURVIVE. I WILL NEVER GIVE UP.
9. TIME EQUALS DISTANCE AND DISTANCE EQUALS TIME.
10. BE AWARE OF YOUR ENVIRONMENT. (ESCAPE ROUTES, AVAILABLE SAFE HAVENS)
Understanding the Adrenaline Stress Response, sticking to techniques that involve only gross motor skills, remembering the Ten Rules and keeping or getting your subject off balance are the keys to controlling the outcome in most subject control situations.
How to Engage & Develop the “Fight” Reaction
Mental training "your Imagination"
The quickest way to engage your adrenaline is by using your imagination. The mind is a powerful tool and can bring us to do amazing things when properly motivated. It’s about making the stakes high enough that our desire to fight overpowers our desire to flee. In our training, we teach students to make themselves angry. We tell them to fight as though defending a loved one to shore up the power of their intention.
We tell them to imagine that if they don’t fight off their attacker he will rape and murder their daughter, or something similar, whatever it takes to get their anger to take over, leaving their fear by the wayside.
Whatever you use to fire yourself up, it should be personal to you. This is a good tool to start with, and something you can always go back to if needed. Ultimately though, in the martial arts you want to have a less emotionally-based way of establishing a fight reaction to get a habituated reaction that can be used more tactically if you choose to do so.
Discomfort Training. When exploring your reactions to adrenaline, it’s a good idea to start at lower levels if it’s new to you. If there is something that causes you discomfort in your training, that is probably a good place to start. If you’re afraid of being hit, you might put on a mouth guard and head gear and have someone wearing 16 oz boxing gloves punch you in a controlled manner. If you’re afraid of being held down, you might have someone bigger than you hold you down, again in a controlled manner, so you can explore your adrenal reaction to that fear. Some people experience adrenaline rushes from performance anxiety. Performing in front of the class or doing training circles is another way of exploring adrenal reactions. Whatever you do, it should always be done in a way that is mindful of your safety.
Live Training. When you don’t know what attack is going to come next, you naturally experience a higher level of stress as compared to training with a compliant partner. When a person achieves a level of ability in which live training can be done more or less safely, it is something that allows them to learn how to apply their skills under higher stress situations. This can come in the form of sparring, grappling, or even self-defense applications in which the attacker is not fully compliant (must be done with a reasonable amount of control).
High Stress Training.we introduce ‘high stress sparring’ at higher levels. These involve sparring against multiple attackers, 2-on-1, 3-on-1, and other similarly stressful sparring scenarios. There are some rules that are followed for safety. No strikes to the back of the head, throat, spine, kidneys, and knees. Participants, both attackers and defenders, wear helmets, mouth guards, groin protectors, shin guards, etc. In these drills an instructor oversees each interaction and is ready to stop the action to maintain a safe training environment. In dealing with multiple attacker situations, the defenders can better identify their experience of perceptual narrowing, finding it harder to keep tabs on all the attackers.
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What are the signs that our fight or flight response has been stimulated (activated)?
When our fight or flight response is activated, sequences of nerve cell firing occur and chemicals like adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol are released into our bloodstream.
These patterns of nerve cell firing and chemical release cause our body to undergo a series of very dramatic changes. Our respiratory rate increases. Blood is shunted away from our digestive tract and directed into our muscles and limbs, which require extra energy and fuel for running and fighting. Our pupils dilate. Our awareness intensifies. Our sight sharpens. Our impulses quicken. Our perception of pain diminishes. Our immune system mobilizes with increased activation. We become prepared physically and psychologically for fight or flight. We scan and search our environment, "looking for the enemy.
RULES FOR PHYSICAL CONFRONTATIONS (Taught in most correctional services or police training centres)
1. BE COMMITTED AND EFFECTIVE FROM THE BEGINNING.
2. NEVER SPAR WITH ANYONE.
3. CREATE A DISTRACTION/DYSFUNCTION AND ESCAPE.
4. END IT QUICKLY.
5. ACT BEFORE YOU HAVE TO REACT.
6. PRACTICE MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY.
7. COMPLACENCY KILLS.
8. ADOPT A PROPER MIND SET OF I WILL WIN. I WILL SURVIVE. I WILL NEVER GIVE UP.
9. TIME EQUALS DISTANCE AND DISTANCE EQUALS TIME.
10. BE AWARE OF YOUR ENVIRONMENT. (ESCAPE ROUTES, AVAILABLE SAFE HAVENS)
Understanding the Adrenaline Stress Response, sticking to techniques that involve only gross motor skills, remembering the Ten Rules and keeping or getting your subject off balance are the keys to controlling the outcome in most subject control situations.
How to Engage & Develop the “Fight” Reaction
Mental training "your Imagination"
The quickest way to engage your adrenaline is by using your imagination. The mind is a powerful tool and can bring us to do amazing things when properly motivated. It’s about making the stakes high enough that our desire to fight overpowers our desire to flee. In our training, we teach students to make themselves angry. We tell them to fight as though defending a loved one to shore up the power of their intention.
We tell them to imagine that if they don’t fight off their attacker he will rape and murder their daughter, or something similar, whatever it takes to get their anger to take over, leaving their fear by the wayside.
Whatever you use to fire yourself up, it should be personal to you. This is a good tool to start with, and something you can always go back to if needed. Ultimately though, in the martial arts you want to have a less emotionally-based way of establishing a fight reaction to get a habituated reaction that can be used more tactically if you choose to do so.
Discomfort Training. When exploring your reactions to adrenaline, it’s a good idea to start at lower levels if it’s new to you. If there is something that causes you discomfort in your training, that is probably a good place to start. If you’re afraid of being hit, you might put on a mouth guard and head gear and have someone wearing 16 oz boxing gloves punch you in a controlled manner. If you’re afraid of being held down, you might have someone bigger than you hold you down, again in a controlled manner, so you can explore your adrenal reaction to that fear. Some people experience adrenaline rushes from performance anxiety. Performing in front of the class or doing training circles is another way of exploring adrenal reactions. Whatever you do, it should always be done in a way that is mindful of your safety.
Live Training. When you don’t know what attack is going to come next, you naturally experience a higher level of stress as compared to training with a compliant partner. When a person achieves a level of ability in which live training can be done more or less safely, it is something that allows them to learn how to apply their skills under higher stress situations. This can come in the form of sparring, grappling, or even self-defense applications in which the attacker is not fully compliant (must be done with a reasonable amount of control).
High Stress Training.we introduce ‘high stress sparring’ at higher levels. These involve sparring against multiple attackers, 2-on-1, 3-on-1, and other similarly stressful sparring scenarios. There are some rules that are followed for safety. No strikes to the back of the head, throat, spine, kidneys, and knees. Participants, both attackers and defenders, wear helmets, mouth guards, groin protectors, shin guards, etc. In these drills an instructor oversees each interaction and is ready to stop the action to maintain a safe training environment. In dealing with multiple attacker situations, the defenders can better identify their experience of perceptual narrowing, finding it harder to keep tabs on all the attackers.
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