Women: Importance of reality-based training

[treelizard]

Blauer SPEAR is pretty good

[TTEscrima]

Originally Posted by treelizard

Blauer SPEAR is pretty good

It sure is, (and it has nadda to do with MMA/BJJ) it was designed as a teaching tool based on military combatives.

From their website:

Blauer Tactical Systems (BTS) is one of the world's leading consulting companies specializing in the research and development of close quarter tactics & scenario-based training for law enforcement, military and professional self-defense instructors.

During the 1980's, BTS pioneered reality-based self-defense with their ground-breaking 'Panic Attack' drill, the design of the world's first functional scenario-based training suit and the first self-defense program based on psychology, physiology and kinesiology.

The S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™ (Spontaneous Protection Enabling Accelerated Response) is a scientifically researched & medically reviewed personal defense measure that exploits the body’s natural responses to violence and danger. This survival mechanism, dubbed: Startle-Flinch Response has been scientifically integrated into a series of neuro-muscular drills that teaches individuals how to convert their instinctive reactions into protective and combative tactics. HIGH GEAR™ is considered to be the world's most dynamic role-player gear because it allows trainers to engage in realistic and integrated scenarios in practically any environment. BTS has developed an analytic & systematic approach to scenario training by reverse-engineering real world confrontations. This program is called Ballistic Micro-fights™.

BTS is now a world-leader in the design of force-on-force training equipment, as well as program management for police defensive tactics, military combative training, close quarter combatives, and personal defense training. HIGH GEAR™, Ballistic Micro-fights™ and the S.P.E.A.R. SYSTEM™ are now used by many of the world's leading DT, Combatives and self-defense instructors to augment their personal defense skills.

Our focus, our mission and our path have not wavered since we began teaching real-world self-defense in 1979... we have been on the cutting-edge of reality-based training for the self-defense world ever since.

Tony Blauer Tactical Systems

[treelizard]

Originally Posted by TTEscrima

It sure is, (and it has nadda to do with MMA/BJJ) it was designed as a teaching tool based on military combatives.

Tony trains MMA fighters as well. In fact you'll see some of them at his training camps.

[Museumtech]

Originally Posted by cqdtonline

Glad you agree, it is scary to see how many women are hopping on the BJJ train these days for the sake of self defense (not for the sake of sport or entertainment).

Ben and Jason,

I will have to disagree with you both here. As Wing Chun practitioner, Ben and I have heard no end that we need to add ground fighting to our game (I trained in Judo for a couple of years).

Just as the wing chun fighter has to except that the fight can go to the ground, so does a woman who is training for self defense. This can and will end up in a man on top situation. The woman must be used to fighting from this position and BJJ and Judo both have a lot to offer here. Not unimportant here also is that a person training in these arts will fatigue a lot more slowly when fighting from below.

As to the surface, when the adrenalin cuts in concrete or gravel or a judo mat are all irrelevant. Do the techniques as trained a you will survive with cuts and bruises. You won't notice any pain or discomfort until after the shock wares off.

Peter