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Congratulations for deciding to take responsibility for your own safety and well-being.
You are about to embark on one of the most empowering adventures of your journey through life.
But first, a few words of caution.
You can understand the implications of freely showing or passing it on to a friend who passes it on to another friend
until it gets into the hands of a would-be rapist.
Then, we would need to create a whole new set of techniques for this class.
Also, although it is possible to sneak preview what you will learn in the upcoming weeks of your class,
we recommend you stick with reviewing what you have learned up to your current point in the class.
People learn to do a skill by doing it under the guidance of a professional instructor who prompts and analyzes their movements.
A video can't do that.
This video will follow the progression of techniques you are developing from week one to week six.
Its only purpose is to jog your memory about what you learned while in class.
If you jump ahead in this video to weeks you haven't covered in your class progression yet,
you may accidentally end up practicing your movements incorrectly, thereby pattering faulty movement into your body's memory.
It will then become harder to correct those bad habits than if you were starting out merely learning the proper way to execute these skills from the beginning.
Here's what we learned in week number one.
General Principle Number One, Proper Breathing
Throughout most of our lives, many of us walk around with our lower guts sucked in so we look nice and lean and thin.
What this does is force us to use only the top third of our lungs.
So we're wasting two thirds or about 66% of our lung capacity.
You're going to practice breathing using your entire lungs.
It will feel like you're sucking air down into your lower abdomen and like the top of your chest is relaxed.
It will feel like there is a vacuum across here.
There is no such thing as a vacuum. There actually is air here.
But it feels like you're breathing into your stomach.
We'll start out by inhaling.
To inhale, let your lower abdominal muscles relax.
This brings your diaphragm down.
You can see the movement of the diaphragm outward as I inhale.
Now to exhale. You're going to tighten the muscles of your lower gut, pushing your diaphragm up.
This forces the air out of your lungs.
Notice there is no movement in my shoulders.
Now that we've mastered breathing, we're going to go on to the Kei.
Week Number One, General Principle Number Two, the Kei.
In the Kei, you're going to inhale the same way you did for regular breathing.
That is, your lower abdominal muscles relax, your diaphragm expands outward.
But now for the exhale, it is going to be sudden and forceful.
It is not a casual tightening of the muscles.
It's a sudden contraction of the muscles.
This forces your diaphragm suddenly up, and the exhale air comes out quickly through your mouth.
As you exhale, you're also going to emit a sound that allows you to expire air.
So the first part of the Kei is the passive phase, the inhale.
And now the active phase.
Passive.
Active.
If you're working your muscles properly, you'll find that your knees naturally tend to bend as you exhale.
You'll also find that if you do this repeatedly, your abdominal muscles will become tired, unless you're in excellent abdominal fitness.
One last time, the inhale.
The Kei.
Week Number One, General Principle Number Three, Forward Stance.
The key to the front stance is your leverage against the ground.
You're going to get your power by driving off your back leg from the earth.
To get a feel for this in your back leg, lean up against a wall.
Drive your heels into the ground.
Now shift your hips forward.
Lift one leg.
Try to recall developing your kinesthetic awareness, what it feels like here, the tension in your back leg.
You want to summon that feeling again when you do the stance.
Now repeat this with the other leg.
Again, heels into the ground.
Shift your weight forward.
It's okay to bend your knees slightly.
Lift your other leg, and remember what this tension feels like in the other leg.
From which you drive off of your back leg.
So you're going to place your feet apart, about like this.
Place 70% of your weight onto your front leg.
It should hurt on your front quadriceps.
That's proper.
You should not feel tension on your knee, but you should feel a load on your quads.
Drive that back leg into the ground, recreating that feeling you experienced when you leaned against the wall.
It is okay to bend that knee slightly.
Pigeon your front toe in, and make sure you bow the knee of your front leg out, kind of like a cowboy.
Your torso is balanced with your ribs and shoulders drawn up directly over your hips.
Now if an assistant pushes on you from the front, your stance is solid.
The harder they push, the more they drive your back leg into the ground.
Week number one, movement in forward stance.
At regular speed, movement in the forward stance looks about like this.
Now I'll slow it down to remind you of some of the technical details.
Start out by getting into your front stance.
Now you are going to use the hamstring muscles of your front leg to squeeze and pull your back leg up to it.
Avoid the temptation to push off your back leg.
Use these muscles instead.
If you do this, your head should not rise.
At this point in the stance, 100% of your weight is on your formerly front leg.
This quadricep muscle should hurt like hell because all your weight is on it.
Now use this muscle to push your formerly back leg to the front and transfer your weight, driving that rear heel into the ground.
As you do that, you'll notice your rear foot naturally pivots, moving your toes on a slight diagonal outward from your body.
At this point in the step, you'll feel a relaxation in the quadricep muscles of what has now become your rear leg.
That's because now 70% of your weight is on your new front leg.
So this quadricep is saying, whew, while this quad is starting to say, I feel a workout.
Once again, to step, you're going to use the hamstring muscles of your front left leg to squeeze and pull up the back leg.
Your head should not rise.
At the midpoint, 100% of your weight is on this leg.
This quadricep should hurt like hell now.
Use this leg to push your formerly back leg to the front and transfer your weight.
To recover, a recovery is like half of a step.
You use these muscles to pull in the back leg, transfer your weight evenly to both legs, then stand up.
Practice this stance as low as you can stand it for as long as you can stand it on each leg.
Build up time each day.
Practice continuous front stance walking with key eyes 35 minutes, 4 to 5 days a week.
This is excellent aerobic, isometric, and anti-gravity exercise.
Your gut and quads should hurt.
If you don't have access to privacy, do the breathing as though you are key eyeing to work your gut and diaphragm properly.
Then, practice full key eyes in your car with the radio blaring while stuck in traffic.
Always do stance and movement before practicing the technique so your body is learning to automatically go into that position during the technique.
Caution, you should have no pain in your knee joint.
If you do, see a physical therapist to help build up your quad muscles to the point where they take the load, not your knee itself.
Week number one, specific technique number one, rear choke.
Suppose an assailant tries to strangle you from the rear. Watch how easy it is to persuade him otherwise.
If someone is strangling you, you have 4 to 6 seconds before you will pass out from lack of oxygenated blood reaching your brain.
It is important to make them let go quickly.
Don't waste time trying to pry their hands off of your throat.
Simply raise your non-dominant arm, bend your knees, shift your weight onto your non-dominant leg, pivot by rotating your hips.
Your dominant leg comes around behind you into that front stance you just learned.
This motion automatically breaks their grip from your neck.
Before they recover, you want to trap their arms with that hand.
Bisex their center line of their torso with your non-dominant leg in that front stance you've been practicing.
Now they are powerless to strangle or punch you.
Meanwhile, you still have your dominant hand free.
Use it to strike with an open fisted punch to their face.
This will drive power from your rear leg's leverage versus the ground.
Target areas can be their nose, their chin, or their eyes.
It is possible to knock them unconscious with just one strike like this to their face.
To make an open fist, curl your fingers tightly but do not roll them down.
Bring your thumbs in close. The striking area is the base of your palm.
In an assault, you want to be close in to your opponent.
The space is an intimate distance but without intimacy.
Objectify him to a cartoon to help you do this.
Weak number one, specific technique number two, body slam.
You can see who wins.
Now let's do it the right way.
Pit your strength, which is in your hips and legs, versus his weakness, his hips or lower torso.
Without even moving a foot forward, simply sink on to your front leg in that stance you just learned.
You can see how his top heavy build makes him...
Points to ponder. One, points to ponder.
One, determine if you could kill.
Two, warning, choose your practice partner carefully.
Remember to go in slow motion with your partner.
Fast motion when doing it to an imaginary cartoon.
Read Hurwitz About Her, self-defense success stories by women.
This portion of the video beginning this far along in your class.
Here's what you learned in week two.
Review continuous front stance walking with key eyes five minutes a day.
You might want to stop your VCR and do that right now.
While this stance is fresh in your body's memory, review the rear choke technique you learned last week.
Go ahead and do that a few times right now.
Now we will use the front stance into more techniques.
The release to the lateral vascular neck restraint and to the arm bar.
Week number two, specific technique number one, lateral vascular neck restraint.
This is for a situation in which you wish to knock him to the ground.
Watch how long it takes to make this person let go.
If you feel someone's hand pressing your neck against their bicep, the situation is dire.
Tuck your chin into the crook of their elbow to protect your neck.
At the same time, sink.
Lean back against them to feel where the center line of their torso is.
Adjust your hip to the side to allow an elbow strike.
Your elbow probably wants to move in a circular pattern.
To change the pattern of movement to the straight line required of a battering ram,
bend your knees further during the strike.
Notice how this straightens a circular line into a straight line.
The result is your elbow gains more penetrating power.
Now turn toward the shoulder of your opponent's restricting arm.
Bicep the center line of their torso with your front stance.
Body slam by lowering deeply onto your front leg.
Before they can recover, walk off.
Week number two, specific technique number two, just an arm bar.
And the situation is politically sensitive.
The first part is the same as for the previous technique.
Tuck your chin into the crook of their elbow to protect your jugular vein or carotid artery.
At the same time, sink.
Lean back against them to feel where the center line of their torso is.
Adjust your hip to the side to allow an elbow strike.
Place one hand palm up under their elbow.
The other hand palm down closes on their wrist.
While you press their elbow up and their wrist down,
duck under the bend you created in their arm and move behind them.
You haven't let go of their arm, so it is easy to turn the tables,
trapping their arm behind their back.
But that's not all you do.
To ensure further control, carefully place their wrist in the small of their back
and push your hip in, arching their back unnaturally.
Now you have complete control over their movement.
Always be sure to follow up with verbal abuse
while they are aware of your physical power over them.
You thought you were so tough, what are you going to do now?
The minute you let go, whatever you say will never be as credible.
Week number two, general principle number one, side stance.
To do the side stance, place your feet about two shoulder widths apart.
Make sure the outside edges of your feet are parallel.
Bend your knees, bow them out.
You should feel a load on your quads right now.
To alleviate some of that load, tighten your glutes and hamstrings,
shifting your pelvis forward.
Your quads will still feel a load,
but now it should feel partly alleviated when you do this.
Tighten your lower abdomen and lift your ribs directly above your hips.
Now imagine a mound of sand between your feet.
Tighten your arches to press that mound upward.
If you're doing this correctly, your inner thighs will feel some tension.
If an assistant pushes you from the side,
it will feel as though they are driving the opposite leg into the ground.
You should be immovable.
Alethea will demonstrate this stance for 20 seconds.
Practice this stance as low as you can stand it,
for as long as you can stand it each day.
Build up time each day.
Remember how to recover.
You might want to stop your VCR and do that right now.
While this stance is fresh in your body's memory,
practice movement in the side stance.
At regular intervals,
you should be able to do this stance as low as you can stand it.
At regular speed, movement in the side stance looks about like this.
Now we'll slow it down to review the finer points.
Begin in your side stance.
Pick a direction toward which you are going to move.
Avoid the temptation to push off the other leg, raising your head.
Instead, use the inner thigh muscles of this leg to squeeze,
pulling the other leg in.
Your head should not rise.
At the midpoint, both your feet should be together.
Shift your weight to the other leg.
Use it to push your leading leg out.
Balance your weight.
Check your toes and adjust them to a parallel position if necessary.
Continue with key eyes.
This is excellent aerobic, isometric, and anti-gravity exercise.
After 30 minutes, your gut, inner thighs, glutes, hamstrings, and quads should feel worked.
Practice continuous side stance walking with key eyes
30 minutes a day, 4 to 5 days a week.
You might want to stop your VCR and do that right now.
Week number 2, specific technique number 3, front choke.
Remember, if someone is strangling you, you have 4 to 6 seconds before you will pass out
from lack of oxygenated blood reaching your brain.
By far and away, the fastest way to make them let go is this.
Target areas can be the eyes, the chin, or the nose.
The direction of the strike is upward.
Your power comes from the drive off your back leg in your front stance.
Think about striking through, not just to your opponent.
You must move their head 8 inches minimum to get any damage.
Less than this, they just tuck, duck, or flop to the side.
You, however, can almost always take a full punch to your head and still keep fighting
so long as you go to the ground and put your feet toward him.
Week number 2, specific technique number 4, front choke by someone whose arms are longer than yours.
An assailant can be someone you know.
In fact, a domestic battery occurs every 15 seconds in the United States.
You are more likely to trust someone you know than a stranger, so your guard is down.
This gives them the extra confidence to attack you up front
instead of relying on the surprise factor of a rare attack.
In slow motion, once again, trap one of your opponent's hands with your non-dominant hand.
Bring the dominant arm up and turn to break their grip.
You can do this with your right hand, or with your left hand.
You can do this with your left hand, or with your right hand.
You can do this with your left hand, or with your right hand.
Bring the dominant arm up and turn to break their grip from your neck.
Bring your dominant knee up high to help you spin faster in the turn.
Your dominant foot steps either on your assailant's foot or outside his body.
This brings you into a side stance.
Now lower the raised arm while sinking even deeper into your side stance.
This movement can break their arms.
Keeping their broken arms trapped, your dominant elbow is already cocked
in perfect striking position to their face.
Move your entire torso with your elbow and shift your weight from your non-dominant
to your dominant leg in that side stance.
This strike is capable of knocking the assailant unconscious or even killing him.
Now congratulate yourself for reviewing this portion of the video
and getting this far along in your class.
Here's what you learned in week number three.
Review 20 seconds or more of front stance.
Remember to do this on each leg.
Now review 45 seconds or more of side stance.
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Pick a side and recover to it.
Now that you've learned about aerobic exercise,
do 15 minutes of continuous front stance walking.
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and 20 minutes of continuous side stance walking within your target heart range
as you calculate it from the formula you received in class.
Do this with key eyes.
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It should feel invigorating but not exhausting.
You should glisten but not sweat like a waterfall.
You should be somewhat out of breath but not gasping desperately for air.
If you feel the need to increase your pulse rate,
speed up by walking to a faster tempo.
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If you need to bring your pulse down,
slow down by pausing more between each step while in the stance.
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Do not slow down by rising.
You need to work your leg muscles, especially the quads.
Test your pulse at the end of your workout.
It should be within your target heart range.
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Stop your VCR now and do 15 minutes of continuous front stance walking
followed immediately by 20 minutes of continuous side stance walking.
Now, shake out each leg to prevent stiffness.
Practice hip pivots on each bent leg, both forward and backward.
Stop your VCR now and do this.
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Review the rear choke with key eye.
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Stop your VCR now and do this.
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Start the front choke using pressure points.
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Stop your VCR now and do this.
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The front choke by a gorilla.
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Stop your VCR now and do this.
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Week number three, technique number one, rear bear hug, arms pinned to your sides.
Suppose an assailant comes up behind you and traps your arms,
pinning them by your sides in a bear hug.
Simple. All you do is this.
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Now in slow motion.
With your arms trapped by your sides, obviously you can't punch your assailant to make them loosen their grip.
But your legs are free to move. Stomp hard on one of their feet.
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Three, general principle number one, side stomp kick.
Take advantage of gravity. Not only do you press your heel down with your leg muscles, you actively fall on that heel.
If you practice without someone's shoe covered foot under you, it should send a jolt up your leg.
With the previous technique, you get a split second in which they grunt or double take from the pain.
Loosen their grip during that time by bringing your elbows up while your torso slips down.
Now you don't even need to look at them. Your backside can feel where they are behind you.
Move your feet to one side of the center line of their torso.
Now ram your elbow directly into their gut.
Move to the other side and repeat.
Now bend forward and chop to their groin.
Stop your VCR now and do this.
Week number three, specific technique number two, rear bear hug by an absent minded attacker who leaves your arms free.
Dispatch him easily as you see here.
Now we'll repeat that in slow motion.
To loosen your opponent's grip, simultaneously stomp on one of their feet and use a middle finger punch to their hands.
The contact point is behind this knuckle right here.
This gives you a split second in which they grunt or double take from the pain.
That's all you need to loosen their grip. Now look back at them to fixate your aim.
Week number three, general principle number two, slack or dead fish face.
To imprint your opponent with the sincerity of your intent, suddenly allow all the muscles in your face to go slack.
Note the difference in expression.
Your elbows strike hard to their face.
Put your whole torso into the strikes, driving off your opposite leg.
These strikes are capable of rendering an assailant unconscious.
Stop your VCR now and do this.
Week number three, general principle number three, use of fear.
We've always been taught that fear is our enemy and we must stifle it.
But fear triggers your body to secrete adrenaline which prepares you for the fight or flight response.
Even though you are practicing these techniques in slow motion with your assistant,
once someone attacks you, it is likely you will be afraid.
Your adrenaline will automatically speed up your movements.
Fear can actually be your ally.
This week, try to do two to three days of anaerobic exercise such as workouts on weights.
Four to six days of aerobic exercise.
That front and side stance walking you did nonstop for 35 minutes counts in this category.
Six days of self-defense techniques practice, especially with a partner on a chair if you can arrange this.
Remember, in class next week we will take pulses.
Try to guess your correct exercise rate.
Now congratulate yourself for reviewing this point in the video and getting this far along in your class.
Yay!
Here is what you learned in week number four.
Review the front stance.
Movement in the front stance.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
While this is fresh in your body's movement memory, review the rear choke.
Ha!
Now the front choke using pressure points.
Ha!
Now the serious arm bar.
Ha!
Now the politically sensitive one.
Review the side stance.
Review movement in the side stance.
Review the front choke by a long-armed person.
Review the bear hug arms pinned.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Review the bear hug arms free.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Week number four.
General principle number one.
Back stance.
To do the back stance, place your feet about one shoulder width apart.
Shift your weight onto one leg.
Turn the other foot 90 degrees away.
Make sure your heels are lined up on the same line.
Be careful to have your feet at a 90 degree angle, but still not have your heels on the same line.
Here is one example of how to do it wrong.
Here is another.
Here is what we mean by heels on the same line.
With your weight shifted on the back leg, turn to face your weightless leg.
This is your front leg in the back stance.
Spread your inner thigh muscles.
Go down as low as you can stand it on your back leg.
This should feel excruciatingly painful in those quadriceps.
Remember, unlike the side stance, in which each quad carried only 50% of your weight,
or the front stance, in which the loaded quad carried 70% of your weight,
in the back stance, virtually 100% of your weight is on this leg.
This is the reason we've been building you up with the other stances first.
Tighten your glutes, hamstrings, and lower abs.
Pull your ribs directly up over your hips.
Be sure your hips are not off-center to one side or the other.
Think of perfect posture to bring your hips directly under your rib cage.
Test to ensure none of your weight is on the front leg by lifting it.
If you have to shift your torso first, some of your weight was on that leg.
There should be no shift in your torso prior to lifting that leg.
To recover, pretend a bar of soap slipped out of your hands onto the shower floor.
Reach out with the toes of the weightless foot and bring the bar of soap in.
Now align that foot with the weighted foot, balance your weight on both legs, and stand up.
Congratulations!
Now shake out that leg.
To test your back stance, have a partner push on your hips while you are in the position.
They should not be able to move you.
If you feel off-center or if they are able to push you off balance,
rewind the tape for week number four and review the technicalities for the back stance.
Week number four, movement in back stance.
At about normal speed, movement in the back stance looks like this.
You can double check to ensure none of your weight is on the front leg by lifting it.
Since this movement is usually used with a kick, lifting your leg and adding a kick is only natural.
Now we'll slow it down.
With your weight still on the same leg, your head has not risen.
Continue your hip rotation, pushing the weightless leg behind you.
Be sure to set it on the ground with the heels aligned and at a 90-degree angle to each other.
Shift your weight to what has now become your back leg.
Check that none of your weight is on the front leg by kicking.
There should be no shifting of your torso.
To repeat, use hip rotation to pull in the front leg, pivoting on your back leg.
Your head does not rise.
Continue the hip rotation, bringing that foot behind you.
Place that heel in alignment with the heel of the other foot and at a 90-degree angle to it.
Shift your weight, test by kicking.
For wrist grabbing releases, only one of your opponent's hands grabs you.
First technique, the stop sign.
This works whether they grab you with their same side hand or their opposite hand.
Follow up with a verbal order.
Keep your hands off me!
Your fingers point down.
Twist your wrist around.
Use the edge of your hand below your pinky to push their hand away.
Since you look like you're stopping traffic when you do this, we call it the stop sign technique.
Down, around, stop sign, verbal order.
Keep your hands off me!
Week number four, wrist grabbing releases.
Only one of your opponent's hands grabs you.
Second technique, back stands.
What if you're worried they won't let go or they'll follow up with a more drastic attack?
Alethea just came out of the grocery store and is burdened with a grocery sack as she walks to her car.
Suddenly, an assailant reaches out to pull her into his van parked nearby.
Watch how easily you can get away.
Ha!
Now in slow motion.
Grab their arm back using that down, around movement you just learned.
But instead of going into a stop sign, grab their wrist.
Step away and pull them into you by lowering your body weight downward into a back stance.
No matter how strong they are, they will have to move toward you.
As they lose their balance, meet their oncoming momentum with your oncoming foot or knee.
Keys to make them lose balance.
Don't bend toward them or you accommodate their direction of pull.
Don't bend your torso away from them or you are merely relying on the weight of your body rather than leverage from the ground.
This only works when your opponent is lighter than you.
What if he's heavier?
Instead, keep your posture rigidly upright.
It will load your quad more but also gives you superior leverage.
He has to come with you.
Week number four, wrist grabbing releases.
Only one of your opponent's hands grabs you.
Third technique, the watch.
Alethea is going inside a door after a date.
Her date becomes fresh and pulls her back by the wrist.
Hey baby, why are you turning in so early? The fun is just about to start.
What part of no don't you understand?
Alethea has just prevented a potential date rate.
The key to this technique is not to out-muscle your assailant by pulling your arm back.
You are not using your bicep muscle at all.
Instead, use leverage by pressing your elbow into their elbow.
The stronger their forearm is tightened, the more leverage they unwittingly give you.
This forces their hand to open up, freeing you.
Turn your back to their back as you pretend to look at your watch.
You notice Alethea followed up with verbal self-defense.
This is psychologically important.
If you don't shout orders or abuse back at such an acquaintance,
they will see the whole event as merely a wrestling match.
After all, you didn't cause them to feel any physical pain.
So next time, they may try a more aggressive approach with the next woman they attempt to victimize.
It is important to destroy their ego.
Week number four, wrist grabbing releases, fourth technique.
Both of your opponent's hands grab both of your wrists.
This is simple.
Just do the technique you learned for one wrist being grabbed with both your hands at the same time.
While you have them there, follow up with a knee strike upwards, lifting and separating.
Number four, wrist grabbing releases, fifth technique.
Both of your opponent's hands grab one of your wrists.
Here's what you can do.
Now let's look at what just happened in slow motion.
Open up your trapped hand by spreading your fingers.
Now grab it with your other hand.
Imagine a circle with your hands as the center point.
Your elbow's movement forms the circumference.
Rotate your elbow upward between his two arms to break his grip.
Immediately grab his hands to prevent him from trying anything else.
Pull him in to meet your foot or knee.
Congratulations for reviewing this portion of your video and getting this far along in your class.
Here's what you learned in week number five.
In the back stance, your feet are at a right angle to each other and are about one shoulder width apart.
Your full weight should be on the back foot.
Stay here as long as you can and build up time each day.
Do this on each leg.
Once you've shaken out your legs, review continuous back stance walking with key eyes for five minutes a day.
Remember that none of your weight should be on your front foot.
You can check this by either lifting the leg or by naturally combining the movement and back stance with a kick of the front leg.
Adding a key eye to your kick will add energy to your movement.
Continue with 15 minutes of front stance walking and 15 minutes of side stance walking.
Week number five, general principle, concept of ma.
Part of the ma is logistical.
Ma is logistical.
How long are your arms and legs compared to your opponent's?
Ergo, how far can you reach out from your torso to seriously hurt them?
How far can they reach out to hurt you?
How close do they need to be to effectively hurt you?
How close do you need to be to effectively hurt them?
But if logistics were the only determinant of ma, all tall people would win all fights against all short people.
However, we all know of several instances of a bambi winning out over a Godzilla.
Another factor influencing the ma is your state of alertness.
The more absent-minded you are, the more your ma shrinks.
Your ma can be reduced by liquor or drugs as well.
At this distance, you can see how Aletheia's reaction is too slow.
The attacker's punch has already reached her face before Aletheia can complete her defense.
Completing it at this point is useless.
The more aware you are, the more you expand your ma.
With her new state of mental alertness, even at the same distance, Aletheia's ma expands to competently meet the attack.
Body position also affects the ma.
Look how slowly Aletheia is able to react while sitting down.
Too late, she can't complete her technique in time.
Compare that with standing up.
He's locked straight.
Knees flexed.
Compare heels off the ground.
Coverage from the ground.
Ha!
Notice how far you can reach out to your assailant just by lowering your stance without even taking one step forward.
Look how many inches of motion are gained for this fist.
This is why you should build your quads by practicing your stances and moving in your stances every day.
Suppose you wish to spare your quads and gain extension by leaning your torso forward.
Look how easy it is for an opponent to pull you off balance.
Never cheat.
Keep your weight balanced by centering your ribs over your hips.
Your quads must hurt. As they gain strength, the pain will subside.
I promise.
Review your ki-ai.
Ha!
Ha!
Week number five, specific technique, haymaker punch to face.
It is always okay to just drop to the ground.
Now they are completely off balance and feeling foolish.
But suppose you want to remain standing.
Just duck and counter like this.
Ha!
If you are on the receiving end of a typical haymaker punch, you may not have the time to get out of the way.
Instead, step backwards and duck.
Twist away and protect your face with your elbow.
Make sure your elbow is pressed against your head.
If there is any space, you just knock yourself unconscious.
By contrast, an arm pressed tightly against your head dulls the blow in case you don't duck in time.
Now you're in a side stance.
The combination of all three movements is far more effective than any one of them alone.
It also leaves you cocked in a position to rock back into a front stance with a straight punch to your assailant's face.
Drive from the rear leg of your front stance.
Congratulations for getting five-sixths of the way through this video and through your course.
Yay!
Review what you learned since the beginning of this course.
If you need more technical review, rewind to the portion of this tape that details the technique you want clarified.
Practice these techniques regularly so you remain proficient in them.
Rear choke with kia.
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Front choke pressure points.
Front choke with pressure points.
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Front choke by a gorilla.
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Arm bar number one.
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Arm bar number two.
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Okay, smart one.
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Verbal reprimand.
Bear hug.
Arms free.
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Rear bear hug. Both arms trapped.
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One arm wrist grabs.
Keep your hands off me.
Flare, leverage, turn, watch verbal reprimand.
Keep your hands off me.
Down, around, stop sign, verbal reprimand.
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Down, around, grab, back stance, kick, ki-yap.
Two arms grab, two wrists.
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Down, around, grab, knee, ki-yap.
Two arms grab, one wrist.
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Flare, thumb up, shake your own hand, circle, grab, knee, ki-yap.
Punch to face.
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Elbow, duck, return, ki-yap.
General principle number one, movement on the ground.
If you ever take a fall, it is common to presume you can continue to protect yourself.
Not true. You actually have several advantages when you are on the ground.
For example, you cannot fall, but your attacker is still standing up and therefore can.
You have all these square inches of leverage against the ground.
Your opponent has only the bottoms of his feet.
There are several things that you can do to enhance a position of strength while on the ground.
When you fall, roll onto your hip as soon as you can.
This protects your spine.
Draw your feet up into your torso with your knees tightly bent and your feet between your opponent and yourself.
Remember the concept of Ma you learned last week?
Use this to gauge your opponent's distance and to determine when you should strike.
Your attacker may assume that he has the upper hand in Russian.
As he approaches, you are in the perfect position to kick him in the knee.
From your position of strength on the ground, you only have to wait for the right moment as he approaches.
Specific technique number one, breaking your opponent's knee when you are on the ground.
If he stupidly rushes in, use your lower leg to hook his ankle so he can't escape your upper leg strike to his knee.
It only takes 30 pounds of pressure per square inch to take out someone's knee.
Imagine striking through, not to the knee.
The contact point is your heel. His leg will break.
Week number six, specific technique number two, neck choke with full body straddle.
Remember that there are certain targets on the face.
You can target the eyes, the chin, the nose, or the Adam's apple.
See the strike as going through the attacker's head, not just to it.
This helps ensure that you move his head at least eight inches.
Because of limited range of movement, we recommend the eye jabs as your preferred method of assault.
Because of limited range of movement, we recommend the eye jabs as your preferred method of assault.
This looks pretty bad, doesn't it?
But your attacker has been absent-minded, forgetting about your hands in this situation.
Not too bright on his part.
Jab his eyes.
The next three actions are simultaneous.
Plant your dominant foot, pressing that heel against the ground.
Sweep his hands away with the jabbing hand and torque your hips.
Instantly trap both his arms.
Instantly trap both his arms.
Pin his inner thigh by moving your hip onto it.
Notice how this automatically opens up his groin.
Notice how this automatically opens up his groin.
Now you have both his arms and one of his legs pinned, but your hand is free.
Alternate between jabbing his eyes and twisting his scrotum until he faints.
Week number six.
Specific technique number three.
Wrist pin and full body straddle.
We'll start out with both of your wrists pinned together by one of your opponent's hands.
The hardest part of this technique is also the secret that makes it work.
Figure out which is your bottom hand.
Do this part right and the rest of the technique will follow easily.
One tip I use is to ask myself which wrist seems pressed against the ground.
Once you have your bottom hand figured out, move your attention to your top hand.
Tighten it into a fist and press the first two knuckles of that fist into the ground.
This creates an arc in your wrist.
Now you have a hole for your bottom hand to slip out.
When you decide to go, slip suddenly and jab the eyes.
Don't pause between the slip and the eye jab or this could happen.
Now bend the leg corresponding to the jabbing hand and press the heel of that foot into the ground.
Sweep his hands away with the jabbing hand and torque your hips pressing against the ground with that heel.
Pin his arms and his inner thigh.
Alternate, attack with the other hand.
Pin his arms and his inner thigh.
Alternate, attacking his eyes and twisting his scrotum.
Eyes nuts! Eyes nuts!
Here's how it looks.
Figure out your bottom hand.
Make a fist with the top hand and press the first two knuckles into the ground, arcing that wrist.
Decide when to move.
Slip and jab.
Plant the corresponding foot.
Throw him with the sweep and torque of your hips.
Instantly trap both his arms.
Move your hip onto his inner thigh.
Does this look familiar?
By the way, this also works against a wall.
Figure out your bottom hand.
Close the top hand into a fist and press the first two knuckles against the wall, creating that arc in your wrist.
Decide when to move.
Slip and jab.
Follow up with verbal assault.
Keep your grimy paws up, baby!
Wink number six.
Specific technique number four.
Each of your wrists are pinned separately.
Although this looks the least intimidating, it is the hardest maneuver to do.
There is no shame in simply staying there and waiting for your opponent to make a move.
That is, a mistake you can take advantage of.
You can even say something to get him to do this.
Look, I've got a safe in the other room filled with $5,000 cash.
If you get off me, I'll go get it for you.
What if they don't go for that?
Or, you just feel like making your move right away.
It will be almost impossible to perceive your movement with an eye jab.
So decide which way to throw him.
Unless there is something in the way, you are best off with your dominant leg.
Plant that foot.
Throw him by torquing your hips.
Pin.
Alternate between eyes and twisting his scrotum.
I hope you've learned one key point from the many different self-defense techniques in this class.
There is always something you can do.
You incorrectly gauge someone's mom.
They close in on you.
No big deal.
Now they grab your wrist.
You forget those wrist-releasing techniques that you learned.
There is self-forgiveness.
Now they pull you out of your room.
There is still forgiveness.
Now they pull you into a bear hug.
Your mind goes blank.
Don't worry.
Now they drink you off somewhere and choke you.
You forget what to do.
Plant you.
You fall, but forget how to land.
No big deal.
They close in on you.
And you forget how to take out their knee.
It's still not too late to effectively fight back.
Now they straddle you and immobilize both your hands.
You forget what to do.
Chances are, in order to keep you immobilized, they are immobilized themselves.
So just bide your time.
As soon as they move, some part of your body will be free to move as well.
Any part of your body that can move can hurt them.
There is always something you can do.
Keep up with all your training so your muscles will remember how to do it.
If you panic, just move any old witch way.
At some point, your body will take over and put itself on automatic pilot.
Doing that technique, you've drilled into it.
But, there are no shortcuts.
The only way to get your body to this point is repeated practice.
Make practice a part of your lifestyle or your mere cerebral memory of these techniques will backfire on you.
Here are some other courses I teach.
The advanced class covers disarming skills against a knife or gun wielding assailant.
The firearms familiarization and safety class emphasizes handguns.
The hyper advanced class teaches skills to retain your gun against attempts to disarm you.
Here are a few highlights.
In the handgun familiarization class, we start out learning identification of models as opposed to real guns to lessen the threat factor.
These models are completely closed up and cannot be loaded, thus cannot be fired.
Then we practice shooting at a high technology target that accepts infrared rays instead of live ammo.
So there is no danger of an accidental shooting.
In the disarming class, we use toy guns to minimize danger.
You'll learn to disarm someone holding a gun to your back.
Freeze.
I'm not stupid. I'll do anything you say.
Give me all your money.
Freeze, bastard!
In the front.
Freeze! Hold it right there!
And on the side.
Freeze! Don't even move!
Thanks for watching!