TECHNIQUES & APPLICATIONS.

The first thing to recognise if the different techniques and how they are used. There is a big difference in techniques used for self defence to those techniques used for competition. The rules in competition do not apply to being assaulted in the street. The inclination to score a point will not cause the same response and fighting for your life.

In competition you are matched up age for age or weight for weight for a fair even fight, rules are imposed to keep both contestants relatively safe. Self protection means potentially you are fighting for your life and pain compliance is the key, you obviously will not be evenly matched so you will not be able to rely on superior strength or speed.

Core principles apply to all techniques, Speed, Power, Accuracy, Stamina, Co-ordination, Distance and Timing relate to all techniques.

Action is .2 of a second and reaction is .5, reaction is over twice as slow as the attack action. The only answer is increasing the distance so you have more reaction time and this relates to the leading leg.

Complicated techniques can be used in the relaxed atmosphere of competition, in self defence the chances of remembering a complicated 6 step manoeuvre under the threat of attack will be almost impossible. All self defence works in conjunction with the bodies natural instinctive responses.

Look at techniques like bullets in a gun anyone can fire a gun, but few can shoot to pin point accuracy and hit the target with consistency. Techniques can look brilliant in line with spectacular aerial kicks but they aren’t much good in reality if you can not hit your opponent. Flying kicks were for knocking horsemen of there horse, no ones going to stand there while you take a run and jump?.

A general strategy can be used in many situations, as can a basic general technique, the more complicated a technique the greater time it takes to apply and if it is complicated and a technique that will only work in one situation it will not be a priority.

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