Don’t Miss This!
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The reason why Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioners were and generally still have the ability to slaughter Japanese Jiu Jitsu practitioners is because they use part of what exists at the Covered Blast – “place then entry ”.
Of all the emails I get from readers and readers, almost none of them mention the most valuable and useful material I have: the Covered Blast, the Fundamental Five, and the 4 Measure Matrix.
These default responses give you solid solutions to a broad range of attacks. They don’t ask you to match specific defenses to certain attacks. They work without thought. And you don’t need to use the techniques that I use. I advise that you do. But if you train another system you are likely to find techniques out of your system that you can use in their location. The key is to get default answers for each of the different situations, and to make sure that the default responses incorporate the principle of the Covered Blast. Having solid default responses is the difference between taking out your opponent when freezing and threatened under pressure as you weren’t sure what to do.
Don’t do this!
The Fundamental Five
The Fundamental Five is the application of the Covered Blast in 5 different scenarios. It provides practitioners with 5 default answers that are geared to real world physical self defense scenarios. If you are threatened and cannot escape you can hit-and-run or burst the opponent until he’s no longer a threat. If your opponent attacks first with strikes, crash for to a superior position and take him out.
If you truly want to maximize your physical self defense skills there is some great information on this site which will help you do just that. However, you missed it. And when you have seen it, you probably didn’t realized how precious it is.
For those of you that did realize how valuable it is, please take this opportunity to take a peek at just how well you’re incorporating it in your training.
The Covered Blast, Fundamental Five, and 4 Measure Matrix are concepts/strategies. When I teach people in person and demonstrate these concepts, students immediately see how precious they are. But on the web and in print, where I will ’t demonstrate these concepts *on* readers, it’s too easy to forget about the concepts and only pay attention to the techniques I’m using. The techniques are easier to see, so people miss the concepts that are being applied.
The 4 Measure Matrix works with any weapon and against any weapon, and because it’s the application of the Covered Blast it ensures that you are able to continuously attack your opponent from a superior position while he is unable to do anything but try to block your attacks – at best.
These concepts will be more beneficial to you than any techniques I demonstrate, in the event you really think about them and work on applying them to your practice. As soon as you’ve got a solid technical base, they’ll allow you to beat opponents that are much bigger, stronger, and faster than you. They’ll permit you to do more with less.
It doesn’Regardless of what martial art(s) you practice. These are strategies that anyone can apply, and if you apply them properly you’ll win every time. I ll write that. These are strategies that anyone can use, and if you apply them correctly you’ll win every time. Use them!!!
And there is sufficient material on this website to get the gist of it if you watch the movie and click through the links on this page: http://www.functionalselfdefense.org/techniques/
The post Don’t Miss This! Appeared on Functional Self Defense.
Please let me know in the comments below why you think people may not be seeing the value in these concepts. When you have any questions or comments regarding them, please ask in the comments below and I’ll be pleased to answer them.
The Covered Blast is a strategy that maximizes your options while minimizing your competitor ’s options. It allows you to continuously attack your opponent without taking damage yourself. It offers you a way to combine offense and defense, space, position, and timing so that your opponent doesn’t have a opportunity. I won’t go into the strategic and technical details here since I already have a page with information, pictures, and illustrations, but have a look at my page on it: http://www.functionalselfdefense.org/covered-blast
You’re here, so make sure you apply it to your practice!
But if you recognize how to start from a superior position and how to maintain that position during the fight, your opponent will always be playing catch up, at best. That’s what the Covered Blast is all about. It is by far the on my site.
The 4 Step Matrix is the program of the Covered Blast for self defense with weapons. In my next book, The Ultimate Guide to Weapon Use and Defense, there are 84 pages on it. And here on my site there’s a comprehensive page on it with pictures and video: http://www.functionalselfdefense.org/weapons/4-step-matrix
When two people fight with only techniques and no meta strategy, the struggle is won by whoever happens to score , or whoever happens to get more techniques in against their opponent. This is a recipe for disaster, especially if you’re smaller and weaker than your competitor.