THE TEN BEST TECHNIQUES
" ... the ones
you practice"
- Recently I had a perspective student come in for a free lesson. After talking to them for a few minutes we
started the class. They explained to me that they had studied martial arts for two years. I start class with
jumping jacks as a warm-up. They immediately told me they were not going to do jumping jacks because they
were not part of the martial arts.
I explained that jumping jacks were part of the warm up process that was necessary to ensure that people not
get injured. The student must have thought this made sense and did the jumping jacks and the rest of the
warm up.
At the end of the class the prospective student asked if I knew any weapons take away techniques and if I
could show them one. They then proceeded to show me one. I told them that the technique was one of the
worst I’d ever seen. Not to get into details, but the most important flaw of the technique was that the gun
barrel was pointed at the persons head or body at least three times during the take away.
They explained that the take away technique had been taught to them by a Police Officer. I then did my
interpretation of the technique. This individual said that, yes that is the way they had been taught the
Every so often I get someone that comes in that is a technique collector. They know thousands of techniques,
... almost. As always it is more important to know a principal than a technique.
In this case the principle is
“It is better to know ten techniques that you have practiced a thousand times than to
know a thousand techniques that you have practiced ten times.”
The technique may be a simple edge of hand or my favorite, a shoulder check. In fact it is better that the
technique is simple enough to execute under the stress of extreme duress.
- The ten best techniques are the
ones you have practiced.
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