Never Surrender!

Presently at Special Agent Combatives we are pretty certain we have it easy when it comes to self-protection training.  All it required was years of arduous work and training to produce our research into an uncomplicated, nevertheless operational system.  Afterwards we merely had to bundle it and promote it around the globe.  It all sounds pretty easy doesn’t it?  Well when you compare that with what folks must do to enter the correct mindset to fight and train it completely does appear pretty easy..  You are the one who must build up the will to survive and fight, and in your blackest hour you must harness your courage and do what appears unimaginable.  You are the one who refuses to say die, we simply tell you how to be sure the other guy does.

General George S. Patton once said, “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer,” that's all you have to ask of yourself in the worst case scenario.  You may never come across a life or death battle, and you should try to avoid them, but when all that remains is to fight, fight hard and do not quit until you can’t fight anymore or one of you is lifeless.  Now that might sound extraordinary, but there's no happy ending if you give up.  If your boat sinks you don’t stop swimming because you’ll drown and die, and the same principal applies once you are in a fight.  Don’t assume that you may be saved or they’ll spare your life.  You must dig deep and reject losing.

We live in a society where most people don’t care about an individual’s character as long as they get the job done.  They can be a total lowlife, but if they produce they’re alright to keep around, but in a fight the true you will determine the winner.  It's crucial to train and it provides you the advantage in any fight, but what makes the difference is what you have inside.  Your desire to succeed and ignore pain must be nurtured, and through training your confidence will increase with each strike.  Once you quit in a fight your training won’t count worth a damn, but if you desire it seriously enough you'll be amazed at what you’re capable of when forced.

As a pupil of human battle I’ve discovered many cases of unbelievable bravery in the face of overwhelming odds.  In many instances those fighting were well trained, but that was merely part of the equation, it was their volition to keep fighting regardless of injures or losses.  Many were just average people who didn’t want to die on that day, and did what they had to, to survive and live.  That’s why at Special Agent Combatives we do the easy part, we train you, you’re the one who has to dig deep and keep fighting.  When that moment arrives we believe we’ve furnished you with the best training imaginable, but you have to do the rest.  Remain strong and continue training.

Special Agent Combative System: The Fluid Shock Wave Principle

In this article I would like to introduce you to a fighting principle called the Fluid Shock Wave Principle. The Fluid Shock Wave Principle is emphasized in all of the special agent combative system counterstrikes. It is not an unknown concept in the martial arts; this striking principle has been called the focus punch, the energy sink, the heavy hand strike, and many other terms relating to a "vibration" type of strike. Unfortunately, learning how to deliver such a strike often took a lifetime of constant practice, since few individuals understood the strikes physics or a dynamics. I will explain them to you in this article.
I began researching striking principles after studying pressure point control tactics as a special agent. I learned that motor points are more sensitive to strikes, which allowed all of the strikes forward momentum to dissipate into the target before starting the recovery. The analogy that is often used to describe such a strike is the action of hammering a nail.
The foundation of the fluid shock wave principle is based upon nerve motor points as targets and a method of striking which maximizes kinetic energy transfer. We know that nerves are one of the most sensitive types of tissues in the human body. This is especially true when stimulated by various types of pressure or strikes. We also know that when a nerve or nerve motor point receives an unusually high degree of energy, the nerve may become over stimulated and experience a motor dysfunction. Since motor points are composed of large muscle mass which is saturated with microscopic effector/motor nerve tissue, the potential for injury from a strike is normally limited to a bruise. Therefore, striking a motor point becomes an ideal target for liability concerns, and very practical tactically, since over stimulating a motor nerve stops resistive muscular action.
An important aspect of the fluid shock wave principle is the mechanical aspect of the strike itself. What a strike or impact is made of a target, energy is transferred from the energy source into the target. The degree of energy, (known as kinetic energy) which is dissipated into the target, will be dependent upon the velocity, the mass of the energy source, and the duration of the energy transference. The efficiency of the strike will determine the length of the motor dysfunction.
To generate an optimal fluid shock waves strike with the hand, leg, or impact weapon, I have made the following observations:
1. Velocity: to increase the velocity of a strike substantially enough to effect a motor dysfunction, is very difficult. Velocity must be double at a minimum to have a substantial effect on power generation.
2. Mass: in contrast to velocity, the mass behind a target can be substantially increased by attempting to strike with the total body weight. This is one of the secrets of the fluid shock wave principle. This can be accomplished by several methods. The first is to ensure that all of your joints are locked on impact. This is a principle called "energy leaks," which describes how kinetic energy may be lost on the impact exchange. For example, if you allowed your wrist to buckle on a hand strike, energy will dissipate in the wrist instead of the opponent's motor point. The reduction of kinetic energy will be substantial, and will dramatically affect the length of the motor dysfunction if it occurs at all. Therefore, all joints must be locked (not hyper extended) on impact.
The next important element in maximizing the mass behind a strike is the use of your total body mass. This is accomplished by placing the emphasis on rotating your hips, or axis behind the strike itself. In conjunction with locking all of the joints on impact, you can generate power based upon your body weight, instead of striking with just the weight of your limb another important element of the fluid shock wave principle, is the concept of energy duration or "time one contact." During my study I have identified and learned measurements of the duration of the fluid shock wave itself. The length of energy transfer must exceed approximately 30 milliseconds to achieve a motor is dysfunction. Ironically, this is almost exactly the length of energy exchange that occurs naturally when you allow all forward momentum to stop before retracting a strike.
Technique considerations
With the Special Agent combative system I have developed a unique strategy of the defensive and offensive striking by combining motor points and the torso for targets, with the fluid shock wave principle of striking. Unlike other striking systems, the Special Agent combative system does not advocate striking to the head. Not the face, the head. The head as a target is comprised mostly of skin and bone, not muscle mass or sensory nerves. Therefore, strikes of any type to the head with a closed fist should be avoided if possible. This is a tactical consideration. For example, the head is generally a hard structure. You will receive severe hand injuries from striking an attacker on the head. Trust me, I have done it. This will disable you only infuriate the attacker.
The Special Agent Combative System philosophy on utilizing defensive counterstrikes is that strikes should be delivered to the torso or nerve motor points whenever possible. If you strike to the head it should be in the face with a Palm Heel strike or Hammerfist or with jabs to the eyes.
The targets of the special agent combat of system strikes are as follows;
Palm Heel strike: the Palm Hills strike was designed primarily to stop its edit and attackers forward momentum. This strike is delivered in a stiff arm motion, and can be targeted at the attacker's face or checks. Generally, this strike is followed by straight punch to the torso.
Straight punch: the straight punch is normally considered the power hand strike. Although this strike can be delivered to the head, it is strongly recommended that this strike be delivered to the torso, specifically the solo plexus region.
Forearm strikes: forearm strikes are used when the subject attacker had deeply penetrated the reactionary gap, and the straight punch or palm heel strike cannot be used. Forearm strikes are generally very strong techniques and should be delivered to the torso. I also use them when striking the brachial plexus or side of the neck for what's called a brachial stun.
Brachial stuns: the brachial stuns are, without any doubt, the most effective and reliable stunning technique within the special agent combative system. Brachial stuns were designed to replace the necessity of hand strikes to the head. This technique can be delivered with the back of the hand, the inside of the hand, the inside of the forearm, or the outside of the forearm.
Front thrust kick: like the palm heel, the front thrust kick is designed to stop an attacker's forward momentum at the edge of the reactionary gap. The recommended target for this kick is the upper thigh lower shin. Attempting to kick any higher would normally result in the attacker grabbing your foot or your leg. Front thrusts are also very effective when targeted towards the attackers groin or knee.
Knee strikes: the knee strike, as utilized by the Special Agent combative system, is delivered to the attacker's thigh, groin, abdomen, and face. Striking to the thigh creates a high level motor dysfunction to the attacker's leg, and also creates a high-level stun. I have used this technique many times when trying to control an attacker. When I strike their thigh several times with a knee strike they lose function of that leg and go down usually holding their thigh and writhing in pain.
Angle kick: also known as the peroneal kick, is one of the most effective Special Agent combative system counter strikes. The angle kick is delivered mainly to an attacker's thigh and knee. This technique will create a motor dysfunction that will often last 10 minutes or longer. The angle kick is also known to create a high-level stun that is only second to the brachial stun. The pain is often so intense, that attackers often believe that their legs are broken. The pain normally diminishes in approximately 20 minutes. Giving you plenty of time to escape.
So this week's lesson has covered the fluid shock wave principle. Embracing this principle will give you much more powerful techniques that you can use to create your reality-based self-defense system.
Derek A. Smith is an expert in self defense. He is a 30 year veteran of Law Enforcement, Security, and the Military. Derek also has over 30 years martial art and combative training. If you want some of the best training to prepare yourself for any self defense situation Derek of course recommends his courses Special Agent Combative System or Brutal Beyond Belief. In these courses I eliminate the fluff and teach only what works based on my 30 years experience. You can see them on my website at http://www.specialagentcombativesystem.com.

Are you Mentally Prepared for Combat?

Many people study martial arts and practice their moves and truly believe that they are ready to inflict harm upon another individual, including death, in defense of their own, or a loved one’s life.  They believe that because they have pretended to jab someone eyes with their finger, crush their throat; dislocate their elbow like Steven Seagal, etc, they will be able to do it in a real life and death situation. Let me tell you that reality is nothing like the classroom or dojo. Shadow boxing techniques or pretending in the dojo does not prepare you for the reality of combat. 

I remember the first time I saw a man stabbed up close.  I was in the 10^th grade growing up in Chicago.  One of my so called friends used to bully me and another friend.  One day my other friend being bullied (we’ll call him John) showed me a knife he had and told me if the bully (we’ll call him Frank) messed with him that day he was going to cut him.  I thought John was just blowing smoke, but he wasn’t.  Not ten minutes later Frank came down the stairs in our school hall and the first thing he did was push John in his face.  In a split second John pull the knife from his pocket and started stabbing Frank with short quick jabs.  Frank reached down and grabbed the knife and actually broke the blade from the hilt (cheap knife).  The fight continued until others and I broke it up.  I was just inches away when this happened.  The result was John being expelled from the school, Frank lost the use of several fingers from grabbing the knife, and I never knew what happened to the stomach wounds.  I had to go to court as a witness to the whole thing. Since then, I have seen the result of many knife attacks and have been the victim of a knife attack myself and was once even attacked with a sword by a drug dealer when I was an undercover drug agent in Michigan.

Throughout the course of self defense training, there is so much emphasis placed upon learning the specifics of each move that the mental preparation often gets overlooked. However, preparing your mind for combat is just as important as preparing your body. I will tell you that you never know how you will react in battle, but you can mentally prepare yourself for that possibility with proper self defense training. 

Here is a closer look at some different ways that the mental aspects of defending yourself will affect your physical abilities. It doesn't matter how much you train, the first time you have to use your techniques in a real situation is unlike anything you have experienced. I remember the first time I dislocated a guy’s finger when he grabbed me in combat.  I used a technique I had used many times in mock battle in my Combat Hapkido training.  But until now these techniques had been in slow motion.  His finger dislocated so quickly and so easily that I actually screamed louder than he did.  In true battle your body will get pumped full of adrenaline and your mind will start racing with fear. You will begin to wonder if the techniques you have learned, been practicing, and want to use will actually work.  It is at this point that your mind either reacts and draws upon your self defense training or simply overload and freeze. In law enforcement we call this tunnel vision.  If your mind freezes, your body has no choice but to hesitate. If you hesitate, your attacker will have the edge over you, which is the last thing you want in a combat situation. Unfortunately, there isn't a lot you can do to prepare for this, however knowing that this will, not might, happen, will help you cope with the adrenaline rush that comes with this fight or flight moment.

It is very important that you practice self defense because this training will make you more prepared for combat than the average citizen who is not used to combat and will fold with the first blow. The unfortunate truth is you will likely be attacked when you least expect it. The attacker will use the element of surprise to gain an immediate advantage over you, which is what he expects with his attack.  However, by studying as best you can for such attacks and staying mentally alert of your surroundings, you can eliminate this edge. When I go out to eat at a restaurant I still sit facing the door so that I can see trouble coming.  You will be prepared to react immediately to any situation that arises.  If you don’t have a good idea of your surroundings, when attacked, your first few moments will be spent analyzing your surroundings and opponent, instead of taking immediate action.

The biggest consequence of ignoring the mental aspects of self defense is that you will not do what you want to do when attacked. Your mind controls your body’s natural reactions. If you completely ignore the mental aspects associated with defending yourself, your body will simply not be prepared to react to your mind the way that it should and will shut down. Your reaction will not be in unison with your mind.  I have been in situations where the adrenaline was pumping and my body was shaking uncontrollably and I could not react as I wanted.  Luckily as a special agent I am trained to break that tunnel vision and move on with my attack and defense.   When it comes to defending yourself your mind and body need to work in unison.

Hopefully, you now have a better understanding of how mental preparation through self defense training affects your ability to protect yourself. Three benefits of mental preparation include:

1.      Preventing your mind from freezing,

2.      Being more aware of your surroundings, and

3.      Making sure that your mind and body are in sync

Armed with this new knowledge, you can ensure through your self defense training you are focused on both the physical and mental aspects of defending yourself.

If you want some of the best training to prepare yourself for any self defense situation I of course recommend my courses Special Agent Combative System or Brutal Beyond Belief.  In these courses I eliminate the fluff and teach only what works based on my 30 years experience.  You can see them on my website at http://www.specialagentcombativesystem.com.

Another great self defense course is “Street Fighting Uncaged”.  Jeff Anderson is the creator of this course and like me he is self defense expert, decorated combat veteran, and a security professional.  His course teaches the secrets that are only known by hardened gangbangers, prison inmates, and a handful of "dangerous men" who fight for a living and it combines every technique, every move and every strategy you’ll ever need to know to help destroy your opponent in a real life street fight. 

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Could You Survive This?

5 lessons learned from a deadly encounter with an "unarmed" subject
In Waterloo, Iowa, a suspect is "unarmed" — but still very dangerous — in a textbook case for never underestimating a "weaponless" opponent

Many of you martial artist and Joe Badasses think you are pretty tough and can handle yourself on the street. But let me tell you, after 30 years in security and Law Enforcement martial art school fighting is nothing…and I mean nothing like the real thing. Could you survive This?

When Officer Steven Bose finished the fight with a round to his attacker’s chest, his throat was filling with blood and he thought his right eye had been gouged from his head. He was prone on the ground and screaming in pain, while his partner groped in the dark, trying to find his eyeball. Bose seemed a textbook example of “grievous bodily harm.”
But relatives of the suspect alleged in the media that it was Bose who really was the villain in the drama. His use of gunfire was “excessive force,” they claimed — and they played a card that often stirs deep doubts in the civilian mind: Their kinsman wasn’t even armed when the cop shot him dead.

Before the matter was resolved, Bose was exposed to the possibility of criminal charges. For pulling the trigger during the most desperate struggle of his career, he could have gone to prison for murder.

Bose and his acting chief, Captain John Beckman of the Waterloo (Iowa) PD, recently wanted to help PoliceOne reconstruct the ordeal as a cautionary case. But City Atty. James Walsh, leery of a possible civil suit, muzzled them.
Fortunately, the county attorney who handled a grand jury hearing of the shooting and a nationally recognized use-of-force expert who consulted on the incident see it as a teaching opportunity that can help other LEOs. In exclusive interviews, they have supplied the first public details of the late-shift nightmare that began, as life threats so often do, as a perfectly ordinary call.

The run was dispatched as a disorderly, says Black Hawk County Atty. Thomas Ferguson. At 0218 that Saturday last September, an exasperated wife told a 911 operator that she and her husband had earlier had “a big argument,” and now he’d come back home drunk. She’d locked him out, and he was sitting on the porch steps outside their side door. She wanted the cops to “remove him.”( Derek'd commentary - a domestic dispute is one of the worse situations to be involved in)

There was no foreshadowing of violence, Ferguson says. “It wasn’t even dispatched as a domestic assault. She just wanted him to leave. It was a normal call like they’d been on hundreds of times before.”

Officers Bose and Jamie Sullivan arrived in separate units and headed up the driveway toward the porch, which was illuminated by a single bulb above the door. A ride-along accompanying Bose that night trailed behind and kept his distance.

At the porch, just beyond an SUV parked in the driveway of the modest, one-story house, they greeted the wife, her father whom she’d called for support before ringing 911, and, the biggest among them by far, the intoxicated husband — 6’4”, 260 lbs., a 31-year-old construction worker “accustomed to heaving around big chunks of concrete,” as a source familiar with the case put it later. (Derek - already a situation brewing.  With his size I would have called for backup)

The “big argument,” as it turned out, was over BS: the husband had taken offense at their two young daughters wearing Packers jerseys. “It didn’t look like there were any real problems,” Ferguson says. But as the officers tried to sort things out, “the wife started getting more agitated, and they wanted to be sure nothing further happened.”

Sullivan stayed with her and her father. Bose, 29, with nearly seven years on the department, took the husband over behind the SUV, a few yards away.

There, the call went south in a hurry.

Bose and the man engaged in some discussion about his finding another place to stay. The man rejected that notion, saying he just wanted to go in the house and go to bed. With a curse, he started toward the side door. Bose put his left hand on the subject’s chest to stop him, and the night exploded. (Derek - cops often become complacent.  He should have maintained a safe distance from a big, intoxicated dude like this)

BAM!!! The man smashed his fist into Bose’s face. (Derek - too close)  Momentarily dazed, the officer woozily grabbed him and tried to hip-toss him “but underestimated his size,” Ferguson says (Derek - judo and BJJ is not for the street!).

The two went down on the driveway, Bose landing on his hands and knees, with his attacker partially on the officer’s back, grappling his head and neck. Bose struggled desperately to free himself but couldn’t. He said afterward the assailant threatened to kill him as they fought. (Derek - Bad guy had his back.  ALready big trouble.  Could have killed the cop)

Hearing the commotion, Sullivan rushed over from the porch and began hammering the atttacker on the head with his fists.  The man “did not release his hold,” Ferguson says. Instead, he escalated the attack. (Derek-  See, fist to the hard head is not the answer)

“Somehow,” the prosecutor says, “he got a hand inside Bose’s left cheek” and started fish-hooking it. He pulled on it so hard that “he actually ripped the cheek away from where it attaches to the jawbone. Bose’s mouth started filling with blood.” (Derek - Why didn't the cop bite his fingers off)

With Sullivan continuing to strike him, the attacker moved his other hand to Bose’s face and pushed hard and relentlessly against his right eye, whipsawing the officer’s head as he simultaneously yanked on his cheek and gouged his eye. To Bose, it felt like his face was tearing apart and his eye popping out. He could scarcely breathe. (Derek- This is why I teach eye gouges.  This is how bad guys REALLY fight, and you have to do the same to defeat them.  Chek out my DVD'd at http://specialagentcombativesystem.com)

Reaching at what seemed like an impossible angle, he managed to wrest his TASER out of its holster and fired it up and back at his assailant. “The probes did not make sufficient contact to complete a circuit,” Ferguson says. The man “neither relented nor released.”  (Derek - At this point this is a deadly force situation already.  But the cop reaches for a TASER.  He was not ready for a REAL self defense encounter)

Sullivan fired his TASER, too. Again, no reaction. Sullivan then attempted a drive stun; the suspect still showed no evidence of relenting. Struggling against the pain and the suspect’s crushing weight, Bose was able eventually to reach and draw his Glock.

He fired twice into his assailant at point-blank range. “We believe the first round hit him in the thigh but did not stop him,” Ferguson says. “The second struck him in the chest. He finally released.” He was dead at the scene.
Bose thought his eye had been gouged from his head, Ferguson says. His anguished cries of pain led Sullivan to think so, too. The partner frantically searched the shadows nearby trying to find it.

Actually, Bose’s eye was lacerated but still in place. The agony was so intense it just felt like it had been ripped out.
The “shots fired” call was logged at Waterloo PD at 0227, less than nine minutes after the wife’s initial complaint.(Derek-It does not take long in a REAL fight)

The suspect’s family wasted no time rallying their forces against the police. On Sunday, dozens of friends and relatives gathered in downtown Waterloo to protest what they said was unjustified and excessive action by officers.

“They shot an unarmed man twice,” his widow was quoted as saying. Her father complained, “They never said they were about to take him to the ground. They never warned him they were gonna’ ‘tase him and they never warned him they were about to shoot.”

The dead man was described as “a gentle giant and loving father…not a violent man,” and protesters told reporters that “officers did not have a legitimate reason to shoot him and [we] can’t understand how he ended up killed.” Records indicate he’d been arrested several times for public intoxication and had been convicted 12 years earlier for assaulting a peace officer, but “marriage and fatherhood changed him,” protesters insisted.

The county attorney’s office consulted on the case with the behavioral scientist Dr. Bill Lewinski, one of the nation’s premier experts on use-of-force dynamics and executive director of the Force Science Institute. Lewinski draws a vivid picture of what Bose and Sullivan were up against in their battle to control the “gentle giant.”

He characterizes the assailant during the incident as “an irrational person who was so distraught and so intensely focused on his own course of action that he couldn’t be influenced by the officers. He was dangerous without a knife or a gun. His empty hands alone could kill. (Derek - that is the reality folks.  SO you have to have the same mentality)

“Blows to the head, Tasering, a shot to the leg — his assault continued at the same level through all of them. People that determined have an astounding capacity to override pain. Nothing the officers could have done physically or verbally short of deadly force could have convinced him to stop. They had no choice other than to utterly defeat him — or give up.”

The choke hold/head lock he had on Bose threatened to crush the officer’s larynx, cut off his oxygen, trip his heart into fibrillation, and/or render him unconscious, Lewinski says. Gored deeply enough, the finger jammed in his eye could have penetrated beyond the eyeball into brain matter, with potentially fatal consequences. “Few things have as great a sensory consequence for a human being as a finger in the eye,” he says. “It’s not just a matter of physical pain, it’s a horrendous psychological assault that leads to a high state of desperation in most people.”

He says he considers Bose lucky to have survived the fight.(Derek - Indeed he was.  I hope he is trainining now)

Ferguson says his office reviews officer-involved shootings on a case-by-case basis, with some going to a grand jury and some being ruled on internally as to whether deadly force was justified. In this case, largely because of controversy about the subject being “unarmed,” he felt that public confidence would best be assured if the matter was submitted to a grand jury.

Potentially this subjected Steve Bose to significant new risks. If the civilian jury decided his shooting was unwarranted, he could be indicted on counts as serious as murder. And the decision did not have to be unanimous. If five of the jury’s seven members believed he was culpable, he would stand criminally charged. “The stress on an officer in this situation is tremendous,” Ferguson says.

Fortunately, by the time Lewinski’s observations and other evidence in the case had been presented, the grand jurors understood the actions of that fateful night from Bose’s unique perspective. Just before Christmas, the panel returned a “no bill” and Bose was exonerated. He has also been cleared in a separate review by his department.
In January, Bose returned to street patrol, still working midnights and reportedly glad to be back on full duty. His injuries are said to have healed with no permanent major damage, except for thick scar tissue along the inside of his cheek at the base of his jaw, which he feels every time he chews.

Lessons learned? Ferguson and Lewinski combine to offer several:

1. Expect the unexpected. Realize how quickly and surprisingly “unremarkable” calls can turn into life-threatening events. No matter how commonplace a contact may appear, the potential for violence is always present, particularly when you’re dealing with a subject who’s in a chemically altered, emotionally charged state.

2. Don’t underestimate a “weaponless” threat. Hands, elbows, knees, feet, even the human head can inflict devastating damage, not just when you’re dealing with trained martial artists but also with amateurs who are driven by deadly intensity.

3. Recognize hot-button moments. “This situation went to hell when Officer Bose necessarily set limits on the suspect by putting his hand on the man’s chest to keep him from returning to the house and to his wife’s location,” says Lewinski. “When the suspect was touched, it was symbolic of the gates being shut on his options. That is always a moment—a tripping point—of great vulnerability that officers need to be cognizant of. Assaults frequently occur when an officer is either beginning to handcuff a subject or is laying hands on him. Any time you touch a suspect, be prepared for resistance.”

4. Document your calls. If you have portable audio or video equipment, use it. The officers that night were equipped with body mics, but they did not turn them on when they approached the scene. “Recordings could have been useful in confirming what happened,” Ferguson says. “Almost always, they will be helpful to you.”

5. Understand your force options. Typically, state laws sanction the use of deadly force when you reasonably believe you are in danger of serious bodily harm, not just when you fear your life is at risk. “You are not hired to be a blue punching bag,” Lewinski states. “You have a right to defend your life and your well-being, and to hesitate in emphatically ending a dangerous assault on yourself or a partner can be a fatal mistake. The longer a fight goes on, the greater your risk of losing your gun or losing your life.”

Meanwhile, County Attorney Ferguson has arranged for his community to become better educated about the realities of police use of force. Next September, just about on the anniversary of the shooting, he and the city of Waterloo have contracted with the Force Science Institute to present a two-day program for law enforcement personnel on the latest research findings related to human dynamics in force confrontations — followed by a special half-day in which Lewinski will brief more than 100 invited elected officials, reporters, human rights activists, and other influential civilians on the truths and myths of officer-involved shootings. For the rest of that day, the group will be exposed to simulator training at a local college law enforcement academy.

Ferguson says, “We hope to have them walk away with more reasonable expectations of police actions and a better understanding of why officers act as they do”

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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.

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