Combatives expert Kelly McCann discusses the pros and cons of targeting an attacker’s head in Black Belt Magazine’s September 2011 print edition. Entitled “There’s a Reason Headhunters Are Extinct,” the article’s main point is that really effective head shots have to be set up skillfully and that requires knowing how to target other more accessible parts of the attacker’s anatomy.
“No experienced fighter should develop a habit of always aiming for his opponent’s head—unless a specific opponent leaves himself open to such an approach. It’s better to use a game plan that first attacks his body, thus causing him to leave his head exposed.”
Joe Lewis, Fix the 40 Most Common Kickboxing Training Mistakes
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Self-defense training is never just about self-defense techniques…
Being Combative by retired police officer David Spaulding on the Paladin Press blog succinctly discusses why “as important as combative skills are, however, they are not as important as ‘being combative.’ What I am talking about is having the right state of mind to engage in combat.”
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Self-defense training expert Richard Dmitiri is interviewed in Intercept Combatives International. Dmitri is the founder of Senshido and one of the leaders in reality-based martial arts. Martial arts for Dmitri is self-defense training and self-defense training is martial arts. His motto says it all: In the ring you win; in the street, you survive. Definitely worth a read.
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Are you thinking about learning Tai Chi? Or are you already a practitioner and want to learn more? Then you may want to check out Tai Chi Medical.com. It offers summaries of the latest research into the martial arts. Recent offerings include research into the art and its effect on the immune system, osteoporosis, and the elderly.
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Let’s get physical. Real physical. A New York Times’ story, The Cult of Physicality, profiles Gym Jones, a Spartan training facility near Salt Lake City, Utah. Located in a nondescript warehouse, the gym highlights a return to more primitive and more purposeful physical fitness training. Like Crossfit, a fitness chain that also specializes in reality-based PT, Gym Jones emphasizes a program of functional strength training that is notably martial in spirit and in practice. That’s probably one reason it can count active-duty Navy SEALs among its members.
Farewell, Jane Fonda.
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