Street Fighter Moves - 3 Categories of Martial Arts - Why You Must Know the Difference (Part 3 of 3)

Reality-Based Self Defense, also know as Reality-Based Fighting or RBF has a certain irony surrounding it. Most people do not have a clear distinction of it as one of 3 major categories of fighting, yet most people when they enroll in a martial arts class or strip mall dojo (as I fondly call a McDojo) believe that they will learn Reality-Based Street Fighting.

The same goes for those, who are duly impressed after watching a MMA fighting match with all of the intense "grounding and pounding" with emphasis on locks, throws and grappling, also go out and sign up with a school emphasizing MMA techniques - believing - that they too are about to learn things that are extremely applicable in the streets.

Traditional Martial Arts and Mixed Martial Arts, even put together, do not equate Reality-Based Self Defense. Sorry. I know this breaks the hearts of some of you, but it is a fact. The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Some Reality-Based Fighting Principles CAN Find Their Way Into Traditional Martial Arts Systems

Let me say that some reality-based fighting principles can find their way into the curriculum of some traditional martial arts schools. For example, I have seen eye gouges demonstrated in some Kung Fu schools, and this is fine. But the problem is that over time, perfectly good, simple and easy-to-learn street fighting techniques like this one get lost in a plethora of countless other competing techniques taught, some effective, and some not so effective, that soon distract the student from knowing which one to choose and what really works best in most common situations.

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Does Not Emphasize "Street Smarts" - Because It Is A Sport!

I do not want to imply by any stretch of the imagination that a MMA guy is someone you should go around picking a fight with or that he is a pushover. This kind of thinking can get you a good "a...-whipping". But let's face it, a great deal of MMA guys are grapplers. What in the hell are you doing grappling on the ground in the streets! This is insane! The ground is NOT your friend!

On the ground, you lose peripheral vision, and you can't see if and when your opponent has buddies coming to the left or right of you ready to stomp your head into the ground - until you are dead. And falling onto the hard and unforgiving asphalt concrete with a 200 lb guy on top of you is not the same as falling on a soft padded mat with the watchful eye of the referee ready to let you "tap out" when things get too tough.

A "sports mindset" is not the best preparation for a life and death struggle for survival. Let MMA for the octagon, and just watch it on TV.

What Characterizes Reality-Based Self Defense

o It Doesn't Take A Long Time To Master - Where studying a martial art (as it should) may take you years and years to master and to a lesser degree so does sports and competitive fighting, Reality-Based Self Defense can take as little as 1 or 2 days of intensive scenario-based training where you are placed in simulated environments with your instructor. You would find yourself in a mock-alley ways, close-quarter rooms with plenty of furniture, or you may go outside to train on the streets - on the gravel, on leaves, on grass, on concrete or on snow.

o You Train For How And Where You Will Have To Fight - The idea is to go out of the usual temperature-controlled dojos and out into to realistic modern-day fighting environments. You train in your everyday clothes and in your shoes. You practice countering surprise attacks administered and directed by your instructor whose purpose is to induce within you the adrenaline rush that you will experience in a real street confrontation - and thus be comfortable with it.

One emotionally-charged weekend of good fight response experience with a good RBF instructor can change you so positively that your self-confidence and ability to respond will shoot through the roof, and this confidence will stay with you for the rest of your life.

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Street Fighter Moves - 3 Reasons Why Reality-Based Training is THE Antidote to the Fear of Fighting

About 3 months ago, I got an email in private from a martial artist who was studying Krav Maga.  He confided in me that though he trained with his Krav Maga techniques on a regular basis, something very strange and discouraging happened to him one night.  He was at a public place when an aggressor called him outside to fight.  And this is what he told me.  He froze like a dear caught in the headlights.  Nothing happened, but he walked away disheartened and confused and feeling like a "coward". 

I reassured him that his experience was more commonplace than he thought amongst those studying traditional martial arts.  I explained to him that he obviously was not experiencing reality-simulated fighting.  He was training in "fighting choreography" without the intense and unpredictable dynamic of a real street fight.  What he needed was reality-based training to prepare him for the real world.

3 Reasons Why Reality-Based Training Is The BEST Antidote To The Fear Of Fighting:

Reason #1 - Your Subconscious Mind "Knows" How The Fight Will End - Let us examine for a moment the dynamic of fear.  Fear is usually that of the unknown, that is, feeling that we will not be able to handle a situation.  This doubt causes a reflex action of visualizing ourselves failing and doing miserably.  Now once you train in reality-based scenarios, you "know" how each fight will end.  "You will win."  This is the belief that is engendered.  You see, believing  and "knowing"  are inseparable because knowing is just "believing" something with absolute certainty.

Reason #2 - You Get Used To The Adrenaline Rush - Whenever you sense or believe a real threat is impending, your body prepares you for danger with an adrenaline dump into your bloodstream to make you more efficient to handle the problem at hand.  The adrenaline rush cannot be avoided.  The problem is that the untrained person doesn't know what to do with it or how to handle it.  When the improperly trained person gets the adrenaline rush, he calls it "fear".  When the properly trained person gets this same adrenaline rush, he calls it "excitement" - same bodily experience only with a different label thus triggering a different psychological experience.

Reason #3 - You Usually Train With A "Non-Compliant" Partner - When you train in Traditional Martial Arts, you train with "Compliant" Partners.  What this means is that your training partner is cooperating with your technique.  He throws a punch and allows you to grab it in order to practice your counter move.  Real street aggressors are not cooperative with your techniques.  They are very, very non-compliant! 

A "Non-Compliant" training partner is instructed to attack you with surprise blows and moves, and he will resist as aggressively as possible to try his best to screw up the perfect execution of your technique.  This is what it is like in the real world, and if you can get used to training like this - you will become ready, and you will become fearless.

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Street Fighter Moves - How to Maintain Your Training Experience Through Reality Based Visualization

When I first discovered how quickly and efficiently one could learn Reality-Based Self Protection, I was a dedicated follower and practitioner ever sense.  Norm, my first sensei, explained to me that just after a couple of days of 8 hours each of intensive Reality-Based Scenario Self Protection training, I could go away easily retaining what I learned for months and months after wards, only needing a refresher course maybe every 4 to 6 months.

This revelation of easy retention fascinated me, but the question that still creeped into my head was that sooner or later, with no re-enforcement or refresher courses whatsoever, I would lose the edge of what I  learned and my skill and sharpness would inevitably dissipate - over time.  So goes the adage, "Whatever you don't use - you lose."

I asked Norm if there were any remedies that one could take to forestall the dissipation and dulling of skill from non-use over time.  He said, "Yes, there is something that you can do."  I ask, "And tell me, what is that?"  His answer was -

Daily Creative Reality-Based Visualization

The power of visualization has been known and practiced for centuries, and during the 20th century, many experiments and great books were written on the subject, documenting its awesome potential for growth, power and achievement.  Many athletes who won the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California in the year 1984, practiced daily reality-based visualization routines, that is, they practiced seeing themselves, while eyes closed for 15 minutes a day, executing perfectly their moves and winning the gold. 

Reality-based visualization creates muscle memory on the basis of "subconsciously created artificial experience".  This is based on the fact that the subconscious cannot tell the difference from a real experience and that which is imagined to be real.  If you imagine a guy who is only dressed in a bear suit to be a real bear, you will react the same as though he were a real bear if he jumps suddenly out of a bush to grab you.

The Technique Of Daily Creative Reality-Based Visualization

The technique of reality-based creative visualization is disarmingly simple:

Pick the same place and time each day.

Practice for no more than 15 minutes per day.

See yourself in your mind's eye in a fight or threat situation with the ugliest and most aggressive looking S.O.B. you can imagine, but see yourself defeating and decimating him with what you know and what you have learned.

Create this mental movie with as much detail as you can create: the smells, the sights, the sounds, the tactile sensations, the chaotic movement, etc.

Get a spiral notebook, and make a diary entry of your visualization progress every day or so.

Practice the first 21 days without missing a day.

Take a 3-day break from visualizing, and then practice another 21 days.

Keep this cycle up of visualizing 21 days followed by a rest period of 3 days from visualizing until the next time you go in for a Reality-Based Fighting refresher course with your instructor.

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Street Fighter Moves - Do You Know the 4 Life-Saving Secrets of Reality-Based Self Defense?

All true fields of study have there basic principles.  And this is no less truer than the study and practice of Reality-Based Self Defense.  If any discipline is learn-able, it can always be broken down to its least common denominators.  Also known as RBSF,  it sharply separates itself from what most people know as self defense embodied in the schools of Traditional Martial Arts, examples being, karate, kung fu and taekwondo.  It also distinguishes itself from the very popular and trending MMA crowd with the study of the sports oriented Mixed Martial Arts.

Here we  are not talking about sport or the study of a martial art and its accompanying ancient tradition.  We are now talking  primarily about one thing, and that one thing is, in a word, survival. 

The 4 Secrets Of True Reality-Based Self Defense:

#1 - It Is About The Use Of Minimal Techniques - Unlike Traditional Martial Arts, RBSF does not believe in cramming your head with countless techniques and maneuvers.  Less is best.  The less you have swimming around in your head to recall, the faster will be your action-time in responding to danger and assaults.

#2 - It  Is About Uncomplicated Techniques - The fancier the technique, the less likely it will be effective in a real street battle.  One reason is that you lose you ability to execute fine motor skills the more you are under the stress of an "adrenaline rush".  If a technique requires a step 1, step 2, step 3, step 4 - you're in trouble!  Your techniques need to be "Bam!  Bam!  Thank you, ma'am!"

#3 - It  Is About Techniques That Can Be Easily Recalled - Which do you think would be more easily recalled?  A flying spinning back kick to the face while pivoting on the supporting toes - or an eye jab with the fingers?  Yeah, I thought you'd say that.

#4 - It  Is About Easily Applied Techniques In A Combative Situation - If you are in a club or a stairwell having to defend yourself, I guarantee you that you are not going to be able any of your spectacular high kicks that you see in the movies.  It is not about looking pretty.  It's about getting down and dirty.

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Street Fighter Moves - Do You Know the 7 Principles of Child Self Defense Against Child Predators?

Have you have really looked at the martial arts classes that you child is taking with an impartial and realistic eye?  Outside of the health, fun and socialization benefits that accrue to your little one, are they really learning reality-based self defense should a malevolent, ill-willed evil person try to abduct or take them away?

In this article, I want to discuss the type of approach to child self protection that is rarely if ever adopted in your typical traditional martial arts studio.  

The 7 Principles of Reality-Based Child Self Defense Against The Child Predator

Principle #1 -  Situational Awareness - This is not only the first principle of self defense and self protection for children, but it is also the first principle of self defense and self protection for adults as well.  You must teach your child how to be aware of strangers who approach them, for example, in their school yard when an adult is not watching - to not to talk to strangers and teach them to immediately look for and move toward a responsible adult should they be approached by someone suspicious, that is, someone unknown.

Principle #2 -  Biting - Teach your child what they already know instinctively.  Teach them to bite: the hand, the face or the arm of anyone who forcefully tries to grab them.

Principle #3 -  Shin Kicking - Teach you child to quickly and violently bite and shin kick to loosen the grip of a would-be predator.

Principle #4 -  Head Butting - Depending on how your child is grabbed and picked up, such as from behind, show them how to head butt by ramming the back of the head backwards on to the nose bridge of the assailant.

Principle #5 -  Shouting "No!  No!" -  Teach your child to shout the word "No!  No!" as they shout it loud enough for someone to hear as they are executing their self defense, self escape moves.  (This verbal maneuver also tends to unnerve and distract the would-be assailant.)

Principle #6 -  Escaping And Running -  Look, you are not teaching your child to stand up and go toe-to-toe with an adult.  The self defense and self protection mindset of the child is to counter-attack the assailant, suddenly and by surprise for one and only purpose which is to cause sharp, sudden and unexpected pain so that the assailant will release their grip and let go enough for your child to get away.  Once they let up or let go, the primary goal of your child is to escape and run like hell as he or she shouts "Help!  Help!  Someone help me!"

Principle #7 -  Practice With Your Child Periodically Reality-Based Scenarios -  Role play with your child the various attack and counter attack moves outside on the streets in the same environment where the child would encounter it.  This will give him or her a better acclimation to memory to responding with the right move if and when, God forbid, should anything like this were to happen.

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From Charles Prosper - The Street Fighting Sifu