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Oct

Learning Realistic Self-Defense Quickly

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Before choosing a martial art school or a self-defense style, you should know the purpose of such desire.

If you want to learn more of the art, then you can do so and make a pick from the numerous schools available---to name a few like that from the Japanese: Aikido, Okinawa Shurin-Ryu, Kyukoshin, Judo, Jiujitsu; from the Chinese: Kung Fu, Tai Chi; from the Korean: Taekwondo; from the Brazilian: Brazilian Jiujitsu, Capuera; and from Filipino Martial Arts: Tat Kon Tou, Gokusha, Doce Pares, Balintawak, Baraw Sugbu.

Yet if you want a realistic self-defense, then you will have to be more flexible to learn more than just one art. And it is not just learning as many styles as possible, it is learning the most needed principles and forms of a particular style that can be easily and effectively applied in real situations. The most effective defense is often times the most simple to apply.

Therefore, to learn realistic self-defense, you ought to know what are the essentials for a practical self-defense. Here are some essentials in trimming down your learning process:

Learn some practical striking techniques. Striking is the simplest counter during an attack. It is also the quickest response to an attacker. You don't have to learn all the fancy strikes. All you have to do is to master one or two punching and elbow combinations that can be effectively applied in almost all scenarios. Then one or two kicking and knee combinations that can be easily applied in almost every fighting scenario. You may employ the use of headbutt in one of your combinations.

Learn some basic practical grappling and throwing techniques. These include some twisting techniques of wrists and arm locking and breaking techniques. You may also include biting an attacker in your grappling combinations.

Learn the practical and simple methods of stick fighting and knife fighting. Avoid learning the fancy techniques. Get straight to the point of learning how to defend yourself against these two deadly weapons, and of learning how to use them when they come handy.

Nevertheless, among the three techniques that you should learn, you should focus on the following to master these techniques:

Master the footwork of the three techniques: striking, grappling and throwing, and Knife and Stick fighting. Footwork includes weight shifting, stepping, and movement of the hips and spine like twisting. Mastering the footwork is mastering how to properly position yourself in a fight. Mastering the footwork in fighting is mastering the right timing of your attack and counter-attack. It is an edge to master their footwork. Footwork can give you an edge when and where to strike an opponent. IT helps you maneuver yourself quickly against your opponent. This is the foundation in every fighting technique.

In mastering all the essential techniques, you must be diligent in your repetitions. Repeat your combinations as many as you can as long as you live---a hundred times, a thousand times. Repeat them (your practical simple effective combinations) regularly until they become part of you---your instinct. Repeat them until they become your need like that of eating. This is the reason why it is important to learn the simple practical effective techniques. Learning fancy techniques may become your instinct as you do the repetition; and this might lead to your downfall.

Do some weight training. You don't have to be Mr. Universe; yet it is important that you keep yourself strong. Strength matters, and not just speed.

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Oct

Arnis: Known for Its Sticking Fighting Speed Technique

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Arnis, a Fillipino martial art, is combination of empty hands fighting with weapons such as the 28? rattan (stick), sword, knife and others. It is akin to grappling mixed with the use of multiple weapons; that is Arnis. It is a complex, yet practical and powerful martial art. However, Arnis has been known for its stick fighting method. Many non-Filipinos from around the world ventured to visit Philippines just to learn the art. One of the islands known for such stick fighting method is Cebu.

Arnis’ sparring is ought to be fast: striking with the stick in a flash. For its speed, it is a breathtaking martial art for both the stick fighters and the spectators. Breathtaking and painstaking. Well, perhaps this is the downside why many neophytes prefer not to study stick fighting. A simple miscalculation might end up to be a big bruise. Wikipedia below somehow talks about how Arnis practitioners originally sparred with the stick.

It is said that, originally, the cane was considered sacred by practitioners, and therefore an arnis practitioner was expected to hit his cane at the hand or forearm of his sparring partner and not at the latter’s cane. This also had the advantage of being the preferred method in actual combat, referred to as “defanging the snake”, that is, making the opponent drop his weapon so that he is less of a threat. However, it discouraged many would-be practitioners who found this training too painful and injury-inducing. The result was that the Filipino martial arts were in danger of dying out; in many areas of the Philippines, Japanese martial arts such as Karate and Judo were much more popular than the indigenous systems.

This type of training is great for enhancing speed, reducing body fat, and improving overall well-being. Presently, Arnis schools have either been opened in the abroad as a new school or integrated with the existing martial schools.

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Oct

Bunal (Stick Fighting)

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Bunal (Stick Fighting) is a Cebuano term that could mean the weapon itself (either as a wood, hard plastic, metal or any material that has an elongated shape regradless of the length, size, color, diameter, or made); it could also mean the way these weapons are being systematically used in fighting.

But what we are about to write is the stick fighting system or method taught by Jose Go Milan, the PalakaBanate. This stick fighting system or method was derived from Anciong Bacon’s Balintawak. Anciong Bacon is a very good friend of Joe Go Milan.