The first of the new DVD series in a step by step training syllabus is out.
B8 1to1 Syllabus
Clinch Phase
Skill Set One "Acquiring and Dominating the Clinch" :
-Intro to Basic Offensive and Defensive Combat Clinching
-Head Control Concept
-Applied Head Controls, Standing Chokes, Neck Cranks, Submissions
-Takedowns from Chokes, Head Controls, Clinches
-Core Takedown Concept "the easiest way to take anyone down"
-Brutal, Fast Street Effective Takedowns- Easy to Learn and Use
In the Beta-8 Syllabus we are aware that your success in a fight comes down to more than "tricks" or "techniques". Whilst technical knowledge is obviously useful if it has not been drilled into an UNCONSCIOUS and completely fuid intuitive response it will not be recalled under the duress of a combative scenario.
1.Your success in a fight comes down to your development and acquisition of skills and attributes.
"Skills" and "Attributes" are both sort of dirty words in the RBSD, Combatives, Street Martial Arts Community.
Why?
Well it comes down to the historical routes of this niche field of study that is growing daily in popularity in a less secure, more violent culture.
Self Protection Training is often rooted in Military Combatives. These were training regimes designed to teach special forces soldiers certain hand to hand skills within a very short period of time. Many of these soldiers already came from a boxing or wrestling background and were certainly already physically fit and strong.
This model of training has bled over into todays training model where many schools are trying to teach the "bare minimum" of skill and techniques that a student can "get away with".
Whilst there is nothing intrinsically wrong with that, where does it leave those of us with the capacity and intention of training consistently over a period of years rather than hours?
There is nothing special about Martial Arts as with any other human endeavour it takes time to develop real skill. Now if you want and are prepared to develop real skill over a period of time, which is the only way to guarantee an improvement in your chances of survival if you are attacked, you then need to choose a training framework or syllabus to commit to.
2. Real Skill is only developed where the Training Objectives are tight and clearly defined.
Whether someone is developing their technique as a pro tennis player or the military is teaching a soldier to shoot you will notice that the training objectives are quite modest.
In NLP we call this chunking small. Little peices of individual skillsets are developed over time to create an overall skill and ability.
In Combative Street training their is a huge temptation that we can all fall prey to to be greedy with the THREAT.
What do I mean by this?
I mean that excited state we go into when working a drill where we start to ask greedy questions:
-Would it work on a moving bus?
-Would it work against 3 guys insted of just one?
-What if they had knives?
-What if they were much bigger and heavier than you?
And on and on!
"Nightmare Scenarios" are attempted to be adressed and resolved when really we should be spending our precious training time developing real skills and attributes - many of which would probably quell these fears anyway!
So in the Beta-8 syllabus we have kept the questions to be asked and the potential solutions offered very specific deliberately.
The Beta-8 1to1 Syllabus is the first Syllabus. It ONLY attempts to address the question:
"How can a student prepare for a one on one fight, unarmed, from the front, with an opponent roughly his or her size and weight?"
If we can answer that one question fully, it will make the answering of all other questions so much easier.
3.Building from the Bottom Up.
Now even though Im more of a striker and I think striking is the highest priority thing a person can do when involved in a violent encounter, for reasons described in the DVD, I still started the syllabus with the vertical grappling range.
Why?
Because there are a unique set of Skills and Attributes that spending time doing this training intelligently allow you to develop.
So, do these techniques and drill represent how you are expected to react in a fight?
Yes and No.
These skills, techniques and drills do NOT represent an exact model of how you would fight.
What they are:
-An excellent support system should things go wrong. If a street fight doesnt end within the first few seconds you can guarantee there will be some attempt at grabbing or clinching at some point.
-An excellent way of developing a delivery system. How does getting your neurology to go though grappling techniques/ drills improve your ability to perform other more street effective techniques like gouging and head butting? Read the Skills and Attributes section below.
-The ONLY way to develop Skills, Attributes and Intuitive Responses essential to your combative ability and performance when actually under the psychological and physical pressure of a real street fight.
4. The Skills and Attributes you get from this course:
Well the attributes you get are both psychological and physical.
-Enhanced Proprioception
From Latin proprius, meaning "one's own" and perception, this is your sense of where your body is in space, essential to your skillbase. Nothing develops your kinaesthetic sensitivity like close quarter vertical grappling training.
-Better coordination and reflexes.
-Greater functional strength
Gym strength gained by pushing weights, as you probably already know, only pushes your muscles through a single, straight plane of motion. Grappling a struggling human being, who is deliberately fighting against you and made of 80% water requires mutiple planes of motion through different parts of your body being drilled simultaneously. It requires much more physical intelligence.
-Greater aerobic/anaerobic capacity.
This is not the only way of doing this obviously, but they surely are one of the safest, most interesting, most enjoyable and most combat relevant ways of doing it.
-Raw Physicality or Athleticism
This one is harder to define and crossesthe psychological and physical training boundary. Have you noticed that people who do a lot of Combat Sport training have a physical toughness to them that you would surely want to develop for yourself? This is a combination of strength and confidence developed through fighting. Anyone can develop it and you dont have to kill yourself in the process. This attribute is one of the most important to be developed for fighting ability.
-Psychological Confidence
Nothing develops psycholigcal confidence like grappling, stand up and ground. Why? Probably because its a range that you can do pretty much full force without too much risk of injury. It also conditions you to the experience of having another human being slam into you or rag you round full force. If you havent had that experience and become completely immune to it even an untrained but commotted grappling, shoving, ragging attack could induce panic and "brain freeze".
What are you training for?
Look at what happens and then train for that.
Rather than try and make the techniques you already have more "street".
The new syllabus has this as its core objective.
Its only to make the student as effective at fighting as possible.
By asking the question:
what makes a student as dangerous as possible to a potential attacker
To get the first DVD in this series click here
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£9.97
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