Return to the fence (diary entry)
- jamie03066
- Jun 15, 2015
- 3 min read
Two people not affecting each other's personal space. See also http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:PerSpa2.png (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Reaction of two people whose personal space are in conflict. See also http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:PerSpa1.png (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
After a warm-up of follow-the-leader specific training exercises, we did a warm-up game two of the children suggested last week. This was a reaction game whereby anyone who failed to catch a ball thrown at them had to forfeit an exercise. Following on from this I had them play a similar game with the focus mitts. Whoever ended up with a focus mitt when the time was up had to do a series of exercises.
With fun-time over, it was time to get down to the serious business of frontline self-defence. This had been requested a couple of weeks back. Despite being rather sceptical about the fearmongering put about regarding violent crime, at least two students I know of have experienced violent assaults within the last 12 months. It brings it home and weighs heavy on me as a teacher of self-protection. Furthermore, the rather over-zeaolous promotion of my DVD by my contractor has also raised criticism and misunderstanding of the way I teach self-defence. I had a lot of energy to expel tonight!
So, we began with the fence and we looked at it from a bad case scenario. More than one person challenges you at the interview stage. Your back is to the wall and they stand outside of your personal space. This first scenario teaches the student to hold their ground and to keep their hands up in a non-threatening manner. They also have to be very malleable in their hidden stance, ensuring they aren’t blindsided by a potential attacker and they keep their eyes on potential escape routes. The next stage of the exercise is to focus on the targets and to strike anyone who comes into your personal space with control. This is then overlapped onto focus mitts.
We then addressed the angry or aggressive fence. This is practiced if someone rushes you; gets too close before you properly raise your hands. You respond with an abrupt shove reinforced by assertive or even aggressive vocalization – Back off! Stay where you are!
The next stage of this exercise is to bring the focus mitts in. If the shove is done correctly, your average aggressor is likely to keep away. They have provoked a tiger when they thought they were dominating a deer. However, the aggression you produce in your defence cannot be a bluff. So by having someone rush back in with the focus mitt after the shove trains the defending student to be ready to act if needs be.
We then moved onto a pressure test. This was the standard CCMA exercise Strategy One versus Strategy Two, this time pitting half the class against the other. This exercise teaches evasion and the sense of urgency as the strategy one students have five seconds to free themselves from the strategy two grapplers. Strikes (with anti-grappling support tools) were targeted specificially to the head.
The session finished with a series of exercises suggested by individual students and then a warm-down stretch.
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