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    Drills For Self Defense: A Martial Artists Guide To Reality Self Defense Training
    Drills For Self Defense: A Martial Artists Guide To Reality Self Defense Training
    Drills For Self Defense: A Martial Artists Guide To Reality Self Defense Training
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    Drills For Self Defense: A Martial Artists Guide To Reality Self Defense Training

    By Rory Christensen

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    About this ebook

    Are you a martial artist who wants to take their self defense training to the next level but you don’t know how?

    This book is written for you. Even if you train in self defense or combatives already the drills in this book will help you improve the results you get.

    There are 50+ cutting edge drills in this book that are guaranteed to take your self defense training to the next level.

    In this book you will learn:

    • Why combatives is best for self defense
    • Why traditional martial arts don’t work in the street and how to change them so they do
    • How to formulate your own self defense drills
    • How to train properly with focus pads to increase your striking power
    • The best drills to improve your striking skills and defensive skills
    • How to train for multiple attackers
    • Real knife defenses that work
    • How to do live fighting drills so it feels like a real fight
    • Awareness drills
    • And much more…

    This book will show you the right way to train for self defense and how to develop the skills that will make you ready for any situation.

    Don’t leave things to chance. Train for the real world. Want to learn more?

    Scroll up and hit the BUY button now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNeal Martin
    Release dateNov 19, 2016
    ISBN9781540160027
    Drills For Self Defense: A Martial Artists Guide To Reality Self Defense Training

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      Many of the drills are fine for pad work, but pad work does not simulate real life or conditions. Pad work does not replicate sparring. This book is a good addition to other combative practices, but certainly not "the bread and butter" as purported.

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    Drills For Self Defense - Rory Christensen

    DRILLS FOR SELF DEFENSE: A MARTIAL ARTISTS GUIDE TO REALITY SELF DEFENSE TRAINING

    Copyright © 2013 by Rory Christensen

    All rights reserved.

    This book or any portion thereof

    may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

    without the express written permission of the publisher

    except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

    Introduction

    Combatives and self defense has been my main area of focus for the last ten years or more. I still train martial arts on occasion, but the self defense training is all I need these days. It gives me everything that traditional martial arts training did as well as a lot more.

    What I want to put across in this book are my main methods for training combatives and realistic self defense. The bulk of the book will detail the drills that I use and teach on a regular basis—drills that you too can use to take your self defense training to the next level, especially if you have been training solely in traditional arts and want to learn how to properly train for self defense as I once did.

    Martial artists have a lot of baggage to contend with when they begin training in combatives. I used to have the same baggage myself until I basically shed it through continued training and study.

    I emptied my cup and started again when it came to self defense training.

    If you’re a martial artist who wants to train seriously for self defense then you will have to do the same.

    You’ll have to forget about what you think you know about self defense and begin to look at things from a different perspective.

    Your martial arts training can help you, but only after you have discovered what real self defense is all about and combatives training will certainly help you in this regard.

    Although I will give you some background on combatives and the best way to approach it, for the most part this book deals with training drills. These are drills that you can start using right away and implement into your training to make your self defense training more realistic and worthwhile.

    If you have never done any kind of reality self defense training before then don’t worry. All the drills in this book are very simple to do and are easily implemented. Once you begin doing them you will soon see how best to approach your self defense training in general and you will see how different it is (and also how similar in some respects) to traditional martial arts training.

    You will notice as well that there are no photographs in this book. I deliberately chose not to include photographs. To illustrate every drill in this book would take a long time and a lot of extra space. So I have kept things to worded explanations. As I say, the drills are fairly straight forward so you shouldn’t need pictures to explain them.

    Besides that, you need to engage with this material to get the most out of it. Thinking about the drills, working them out and seeing how best to implement them is good practice in itself. Self defense is all about taking responsibility for your own safety and your own training, not leaving it up to others. Thinking for oneself is therefore an essential skill to cultivate.

    Enjoy the book and have fun doing the drills.

    Chapter 1: Martial Arts Versus Combatives

    Before we get into the drills I would like to provide you with some background and context first. To get the most from the drills you have to know a little bit about combatives training and how to best approach it. I will also talk a little about the main techniques used in combatives and the type of mindset that goes along with them.

    So let’s start by looking at the differences between martial arts and combatives. We will also see why the majority of martial arts training is inadequate for self defense.

    The Differences Between Martial Arts And Combatives

    The problem with training in a dojo every week over many years is that it can take on its own form of reality. You do things in a dojo that make complete sense within the confines of the rules set by the art you are training in and the instructor who is teaching you. The problem is those rules don’t always apply outside of the dojo reality. Following those same rules in the real world can get you in trouble, especially when it comes to defending oneself in a real street altercation.

    What works in the dojo will not always work in the real world.

    It may seem that I am stating the obvious here. Many traditional martial artists profess to know this already. They admit to doing things that are only suitable to do in the dojo, but at the same time, they also teach those same things as being suitable for real self defense. For students that don’t know any better this can be a real problem. If a student goes around thinking that what they are learning in the dojo will help them defend themselves in a real fight, they are harbouring a false sense of security.

    Many traditionally minded students and teachers can get very precious and defensive about their arts. They don’t like to hear that the art they do and the type of training they do has inadequacies of any kind. This is something you must get over if you want to learn how to train for real self defense.

    Combatives isn’t about art or tradition or values or anything like that. Combatives is purely practical. Its only concern is what works. That’s it and that is how you should look at your self

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