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Dynamic Non-Compliance

Dynamic Non-Compliance

Progressive Violence The primary components of physical development are: Learning, Practicing, and Testing. All three components fall along a scale. When that scale is physical and relates to types of relationship skills it will be a scale of volunteerism. When talking about non-compliance training, the goal is to reduce the volunteerism over a scale of…

Training Drills

A question came in my mailbox this morning from one of the guys on the course and he wondered about Latihan Berpasangan and why I don’t really have that many. I went on at length so I thought I would pass it on and expand it even further here. There are a lot of reasons.

The Self-Defense Rolodex

…and other B.S. I hear people say that a self-defense system needs to be simple and needs to have only a very small set of tools. One of the basic arguments is that you can’t have multiple decisions for tools, defense, or application because somehow you may get “confused” and that somehow you won’t be…

Gross Motor vs. Fine Motor

Fine Motor skills are definitely not used much in personal protection or self-defense, but they aren’t used much in martial arts either. Fine Motor skills involve the picking up of very fine and small objects, or writing, and drawing. Basically they are focused on finger to hand and eye coordination. And that’s about it….

Jurus Part 2

Jurus Part 2

Continuing where we left off, basically with a no bullshit discussion of Jurus-jurus (meaning plural—Indonesian language does not pluralize with the addition of an "S" but by double usage). Part 2 So you’ve got these forms in your training and maybe there are 4 or 5 or 10 or 12? More? It doesn’t really matter...
It’s a spectrum

It’s a spectrum

It’s a spectrum of Movement and responses over time. Analytically combat is about dissecting time. And hopefully having the necessary tools to take advantage of opportunity across the spectrum. Personal Combat is about very quick slices of time where large format combat can take years. The way that Silat Dirty Boxing (PSP) is designed is…

Jurus Survey

Jurus Survey

This is a quick survey on the study of jurus-jurus within pencak silat systems. I’d love to hear your thoughts on them. [os-widget path=”/silatjunkie/jurus-forms-training” of=”silatjunkie”]

Jurus Introduction

Part 1 Forms, kata, hyung, poomse, jurus, djurus.... whatever. I don't really care what you call them. They are basically an organized series of movements intended to communicate a systems body culture to you in a repeatable and correctable way. There is always a back and forth between those who train in forms and those...
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