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August 21, 2010

Interview on martial arts in self-defense

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On August 11 I was interviewed by Alex Haddox of www.alexhaddox.com
for his podcast. He interviewed me on the subject of training and
flexibility for self-defense. His main question was, "How should
people train in order to best prepare for an explosive criminal
attack? (We are all used to warming up [before m.a. practice], but
on the street you cannot; you just have to move)."

Alex was especially interested in the use of high, or full range,
kicks in self-defense. That's understandable--many people practice
martial arts, for example, taekwondo, that favor use of high kicks.
These people spend a lot of training time on stretching for
kicking, and on practicing high kicks, but throwing those kicks
high and hard without a warm-up and pre-stretching is difficult for
them. You may say, no problem, just kick low and hard. That is a
very sensible advice, but ... those people spend most of their
practice time on the high kicks, they have technical and tactical
habits based on the use of high kicks. And because of errors in
their training, their use of those high kicks depends on being well
warmed-up. We talked about improving their training, so in
self-defense they can use the weapons (kicks) they are most
familiar with.

I didn't go into the issue of instinctively applying one's favorite
techniques, whatever they are--chokes, elbows, head-butts, kicks,
knife cuts, punches, stick strikes, wrestling throws--in a hostile
encounter, sudden or not, and how that instinctive application is
related to confidence in the technique, and how to develop that
confidence.

In this interview I talked only of the technical and conditioning
aspects of training people from strike-and-kick m.a. for
self-defense.

The interview will be posted this Saturday, August 21, at midnight (California time),
at www.alexhaddox.com/practicaldefense7.shtml

Talking about self-defense ...

Modern Survival has featured the Unbreakable Umbrella in its August/September issue
at www.modernsurvival.net/preview.cfm

Best regards,

Thomas Kurz

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