Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Is Your Hand To Hand Combat Training Right For You?

By Lora Jones


If you feel like the current hand to hand combat training that you are going through isn't fulfilling your needs, then you need to read this article and find out if anything is wrong. After all, there is a slew of options available out there nowadays, so you might have trouble figuring out what is right for you. Since the available programs are all different, as well, you may want to consider all of your options before settling on just one for the long term.

While some of these programs are only there to teach the basics to its students, others may be there to keep people fit and still others may just be there to teach self defense. If you want to find out if your current program is the right one for you, then you have to identify several characteristics first, so that you can eliminate all of the unnecessary resources in your program. If you have merely joined your program to learn self defense, then here are some of the traits that you should look out for and avoid altogether.

One of the things that attract many people to these programs is their emphasis on precision strikes. However, although it is good to be precise in any type of training, this could be detrimental when precision is an absolute must, such as when you become prey to surprise attacks. In these cases, you might be a bit confused in the beginning as you assess the overall situation, thus making you incapable of using precise strikes altogether.

So, if your program is currently focusing on precise strikes on certain pressure points, then you might want to rethink it. Ideally, you should look for a more flexible program, where you merely learn how, when and where to strike attackers that come onto you unexpectedly. This way, you will learn how to defend yourself better, regardless of what kind of circumstance may arise.

You should also steer clear of training programs that mostly depend on complex moves or combinations. While these moves may be helpful if you want to get into shape and learn basic skills, they wouldn't be good for self defense. When defending yourself, it is best to keep things simple. If you learn too many movements, you could end up doing something wrong in the end.

Lastly, you have to stop forgetting that your main goal should be to get out of there. A lot of training programs will try to teach you how to get an upper hand on your opponent or how to disable them. Unfortunately, this won't work out well for you if you are attacked by a lot of different opponents or if you are already in the face of utmost danger.

Ideally, you should learn how to escape the situation that you find yourself in and don't want to be in anymore. Forget about focusing on how to control your opponent in the match for now. This just goes to show how important it is to analyze each program before making your final decision.

As you can see, hand to hand combat training programs can have completely different goals from one another. If your main goal is self defense, though, then you need to avoid programs with all of the aforementioned traits and look for a program that would suit you better instead.




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