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Lesson 1 - The basics of self-defense
Introduction
In this chapter, we will start to describe the foundations of a serious martial preparation for self-defense. We will try to be as much as possible:
Serious - We do not like to cheat / deceive people, especially when life comes to risk
Practical - No absurd situations that never happen outside a predetermined context
Simple - The most complex and risky cases will be the subject of the last chapters of this course
We have chosen to speak...
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A few premises
As you could see in Lesson 6.3, stretching can have a variety of applications. After seeing its function of preparation for a good training performance (after warm-up, read Lesson 1.3) let's pass to the next step: gain flexibility.
Before starting let's repeat that:
You cannot start a tendons transformation training without having consulted your physician
At the same exercise each person reacts differently, someone can get results faster, someone slower (read The right age...
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Self-defense scenario
We are alone in the street and we see in the distance, on our path, one or more unknown people:
In physical and / or numerical advantage
Which do not fall into the normality of the place where they are (clothes, position, attitudes, etc.)
Who look at us from afar and sideways, with quick and elusive looks (or looking everywhere but in our eyes direction)
Who have irregular movements (fast, nervousness, etc.)
Which in some ways trigger suspicion (eg. that we may have...
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Understanding who we are facing
In street situations, people (and a lot of instructors) often tend to prefer to do not reflect and to attack in the most rapid and aggressive possible way. In the most of cases, this could be a winning strategy but, in a lot of other cases, it can signify to be immediately knocked down (or worse).
The problem is that we do not know who is in front of us, the only thing we know is that: if he has accepted the risk of attacking (and he is not in an altered state...
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The body pyramid
In 6 Dragons Kung Fu, when we talk about rooting (as in Tai Chi or in Wing Chun) we refer substantially to two things:
Ability to resist the opponent?s interaction (thrusts, projections, etc.) without losing balance
Ability to express the full potential of our body power (punches, constrictions, etc.) avoiding any dispersion of force
The first step to gain these skills is to imagine our body as inscribed in a pyramid where:
The head is the tip
The feet are the base
It...
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The main concepts related to balance
First of all, we must introduce a few definitions. Given a "perfectly flat" ground:
Center of gravity - It's the point of application of all weight forces on a body
Point of support - It is the point where is projected the center of gravity onto the ground (eg. in the Ma Bu stance the base of support has no body elements touching it, read The correct position of the rider (ma bu))
Base of support - It's the safe area on the ground where if the point of...
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The importance of stretching: why practice stretching?
As we mentioned in previous lessons stretching is extremely important and can be used for a variety of applications:
Daily life relaxation
Sport application
Martial application
Mobility recovery
Contortionism performances
Each of these goals has different rules and methods of acquiring, in this lesson you will learn (broadly) what.
Daily life relaxation
If you do not plan to truly learn to fight and you only want to gain wellne...
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Power and speed are not enough
Contrary to popular belief, power and speed, alone, have nothing to do with prevailing in a martial clash.
Any man (or woman), in normal health and physical conditions, has already enough power and speed to potentially predominate on any adversary; as a matter of principle, everything else we add to this is ?just? a compensation to our martial weaknesses.
We are not saying that speed and power are useless, we want to say that what really makes the difference...
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The elongations levels
Since gradualness is one of the fundamental pillars of 6 Dragons Kung Fu's training method (read The instructor of 6DKF and the teaching method), we distinguish 8 levels of elongation:
Without effort (level 0) - This is the condition of mobility you reach during a normal warm-up; it does not create any kind of tension superior to the ones of the common daily life
Light tension (level 1) - You have to maintain this tension during the introductive stretching session (id...
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The 6 Dragons Kung Fu's Method to solve problems
Reconnecting to the previous article (read Accept problems to find solutions) we see now a simple, effective and "scientific" method to solve any kind of life problem:
In the 6DKF's Method, there are no magic tricks, only a rational mindset
Sometimes what stop us from winning is only the absence of the will to act systematically
Probably not all problems can be solved with a "formula" but, most of them, surely can
Most of the times, our eff...
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