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Stick Fighting: Techniques of Self-Defense Masaaki Hatsumi, Quintin Chambers
Publisher: Kodansha America

Martial arts techniques for stick fighting self defense against a club, baseball bat, tire iron or other impact weapon often use unrealistic street fight situations. In sport every fighter makes his own set of techniques, but teaching self-defense we teach anyone one and the same techniques, because they are the most rational and selected moves. The myth is that doing well in sport fighting makes one invincible “on the street”. Balintawak Arnis is a Filipino martial art which trains stick fighting techniques. As a matter of law, the moment you engage in avoidable violence of this kind—rising to a challenge and escalating the conflict—you lose any legal claim to self-defense. Self defence with knife and stick training. I start my courses with teaching the hand-to-hand combat part – knife and stick fighting elements, so that my students would understand there's one principle for any situation, it doesn't matter if an opponent has a knife in his hand, or a stick, or maybe it's just his fist. Self defense vs sport fighting While I have the greatest respect for Joe Louis, this quote represents another myth that's common in martial arts circles. Martial Arts in The Philippines. Jennifer then discusses and demonstrates the three main targets to be aware of that you can use to strike, how to keep your balance during self-defense, along with a wide variety of self-defense techniques that you can use in various situations. While I absolutely believe women & girls need to know what to do to fight back, it takes practice to get those vocal chords working instead of going mute, and to *believe* that what is happening, IS HAPPENING to you!