…..I came across a clip on YouTube today with Barry “Cuda” Yedwabnick. He has some knife trapping and locking involved here that is worth taking a look at. Enjoy.
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…..In life one needs to listen to those around them. This is crucial. Crucial in your personal relationships, business and of course the martial sciences. We all need to stop and listen to those around us. If you are an instructor you need to listen to what and where your students are at in terms of how hard you are pushing their bodies. You also need to listen to them asking questions so that you can pick out the question and hopefully answer it in a way that helps them. You need to listen and understand their life experiences and relate that in how you can help them learn your martial science. Practitioners also need to listen to their instructors so that they can pick out the information that will be beneficial to them. Listening will also help the practitioner learn abou their instructor and become close to them. Listen to someone and understand what they are saying and you will have an opportunity to form a bond with them. We humans are very social creatures and listening to one another is an essential skill set that can open many doors for you. So just stop and listen and see where you can go!
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…..I came across this clip on Ciamande Macan Guling Pencak Silat. This is from a french group but shows some nice movement. Enjoy!
Silat On The Mats!
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…..In the United States we have a tradition called Thanksgiving Day where we celebrate what we are thankful for. I would like to say that I am thankful for family and friends and of course all of my martial brothers and sisters around the world! I wish you all the best and hope that you can reach for your dreams!
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…..I thought I would reprint an article I wrote from 2004 regarding the Instinctive Response. This article can also be found here: The Instinctive Response
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THE INSTINCTIVE RESPONSE |
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When studying martial science the goal of any practitioner is to achieve the instinctive response. Learning to achieve this is the difficult part! Can anyone learn it? Yes, if they have the perseverance to undergo rigorous training, learning, believing, and finally the ability to let go! What does the instinctive response do for you? Well, it allows you to in a way perform magic! It allows you to perform complex movement without thought! That is the key, without thought! Imagine you are attacked and you have to think what you need to do to defend yourself. That thought process will invariably slow you down, so slow that you are at a distinct disadvantage. Imagine the attacker, who has already thought out his attack strategy. You are at a disadvantage because they act first and have a preplanned attack strategy. Now the situation is compounded because you have to think through your defensive strategy and pick an appropriate tactic (palm heel strike, etc.) to counter their tactics. This is slow, not impossible, but slower than if one is in the instinctive response. If you slip into the instinctive response then you bring your training, understanding, faith, morals etc. together without thought to defend yourself. In other words you defend yourself without thought! Amazing yes, but impossible to develop, absolutely not! Slipping into the instinctive response is the key. Once you achieve this, your skills have certainly developed to a new and incredibly effective level. In this state, everything slows down, at least to you. Things happen like lightning as your body moves, opponents seem completely vulnerable and unable to stop your counter attacks. More importantly as you protect yourself, all of this is over in the blink of an eye and your technique, training, knowledge, morals and spirit are brought to bear to defend yourself or your loved ones. Entering into the instinctive response is the true method of bringing together the physical, mental and spiritual side of the martial arts. Best of all, if you are willing to train, understand, have faith and let go then you can achieve this too! It is available for everyone and anyone! Even people who have not undergone training can achieve this state too, however they enter into it more out of luck than anything else. I for one, do not wish to leave this to chance and therefore I have trained almost my entire life to be able to bring the physical, mental and spiritual side of the martial arts together when needed. How to achieve this? First, let us start off with the training aspect. It is vitally important to train and when I say this I mean train. Train with passion, train with importance, train correctly, train with a quality instructor, but first and foremost train. Even if you are away from your instructor for a period of time or cannot attend class because of work, etc. TRAIN! Train in class at the training hall, train out of class at home, but make no mistake that the importance of training your body cannot be taken for granted. Our bodies can be like well oiled machines that can perform miraculous feats when needed to, but if we lie around and let them get stagnant, well, then they may not perform for us when we need them most. So in the end, we must take the approach that our body is our temple and we will treat it right! Part of training is eating right and nourishing our body appropriately. Then exercising our bodies and achieving our peak athletic potential. If you throw yourself into your training regimen learning martial science then you will have the potential to enter into the instinctive response! Next one must learn and understand the knowledge of what is being taught. Learn the martial science techniques, strategies, tactics, ethics, morals etc. and delve into them and understand them. When I say understand, I mean truly make them a part of you. Not solely by rote or by memory but make them part of your being, your spirit, your essence. Understanding comes from learning martial science in class, applying it in class, then working on it out of class by yourself. Solo training makes for the most improvement when done correctly. When I say correctly, that means that you cannot solo train poorly or in direct contradiction to your training in the training hall and expect to achieve good results. One must solo train with an eye for perfection of the technique that one has been taught! Faith, this five letter word has been used for a long, long time by our human race. What does it mean? Well, one must believe in what one is doing, learning, etc. You simply must have belief in your training, your knowledge, your spirit! Faith in martial science truly separates the unique martial artist from the non unique. Those people who train, understand and have faith are truly fearsome when confronted. Believe in what you are doing, believe in your teachers guidance, believe in your own innate abilities and your understanding of the martial science that you study. Most importantly you have to believe! This is what separates some martial artists. There are many martial artists who lack faith in their training or teaching. One only needs to look at some Internet forums and you will see many who really do not have faith in their training, knowledge and spirit. They also generally do not have faith in their teachers! This faith is essential, find a system or art of martial science that you can believe in! Finally, you must let go! Yes, that is it! You have to let go of everything and just connect with your unique spirit. When you let go, you bring your training, knowledge and faith together. This allows the Instinctive Response to come out. When this happens, if you are being attacked, you will have a very good chance of defending yourself and your loved ones effectively. Everything seems to slow down when you are in the Instinctive Response! Everything and anything are possible in this state! Average humans have accomplished amazing feats by going into the Instinctive Response, but to get there you have to Let Go! This is sometimes the most difficult aspect but really, if you take care of the first three principles i.e. Training, Knowledge and Faith, letting go is easy!!! Once you have accomplished this it is easy to do it again, and again and again. It is like learning how to walk once you have it, you have it! Just Let Go! The Instinctive Response is really what all martial sciences are striving for. Some systems and arts may not even talk about it, but it is there. Some systems and arts may talk about it using different words such as the void, mushin (mind – no mind) or other various phrases. It is found in all endeavors, from athletics to academics. It is just that people around the world have found different ways of explaining it. Some people call it the void, mushin, the zone, in the groove, the flow, etc. Regardless, it is a part of our species and anyone and everyone can achieve it if they are willing to Train, Learn, have Faith and finally Let Go! Good luck on your martial quest and may all of the martial artists before you bless your path. |
Brian VanCise
Founder
Instinctive Response Training™
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…..If you enjoyed this article then think about picking up our e-book on the same subject: The Instinctive Response E-Book!
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…..Accidents happen and sometimes they can be pretty bad. You owe it to yourself and to your partner’s to take care of each other. The following two videos show some accidents that happened during competition. During a competition the line is a little gray in that you are trying to win and the edge gets pushed a little more. That is all fine and well and what competition is all about. Still try to protect the other guy and girl while still winning. The first video is not for the squeamish. The second video is not so bad. However both teach a valuable lesson. If you get put in a difficult position sometimes you have to let go of what you are trying to accomplish and start over. In other words be flexible and willing to change! Change is good!
The bottom video may not go through some filters do to viral videos other riskier videos. So be warned! (I will eventually try and find it on a clean site)
Viral Video Brazilian Jiujitsu Back Break During Competition
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…..Last summer Southwest Tactical Knife Systems went to Phoenix, Arizona where Guru Erik Kruk taught his particular brand of blade system. Topics covered where empty hands vs. the knife and knife on knife. Guru Erik Kruk is the USA representative of Baringin Sakti Pencak Silat.
His website is here: Baringin Sakti Indonesian Martial Arts
Here is some video footage of the seminar. I think all IRT practitioner’s will see some similarities and enjoy this footage!
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…..Okay I use a lot of different methods to stoke the fire and keep the passion going. One thing that I very much enjoy is the Gracie Insider Technique of the Month. Every month Rener and Ryron Gracie put out a video and it comes out on YouTube. If you sign up at the Gracie Academy then it gets sent to your email. Here is the link: Gracie Insider. There is quite a bit of good information that you can receive there and it will definitely help to keep the passion for the martial sciences going. (maybe someday or soon I will start up something similar for IRT)
Here is the current Gracie Insider Technique of the Month:
Learn from every one and every where! Be a sponge!
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…..One thing that is very important to practice is feeding a fake strike. What do I mean by this? Well let’s say I wish to hit a target I may feed a strike to a certain area knowing or expecting that my opponent will try to counter it. Having fed this strike which was always a fake I can then proceed to attack the incoming limb or another part of my opponents body. This concept is important with all martial techniques and skill sets such as empty hands, impact tools but it really is a special technique with bladed weapons. Feeding the fake with a blade allows you to pull your opponent out of a defensive position and then counter attack his limb or go for the vital point that you wanted to get to. What is also nice is that this is a pretty natural type of thing for our species to do. When I am messing around with my twelve year old he invariably does this. Even my nine year old will do this as well. So it is some thing that we as a species find pretty natural. However in order to get really good at it you need to practice it and apply it real time. Then you will know if it works for you!
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…..The Internet truly is a wonderful thing. You can look around and see what other people are doing every where in the world. Take for instance this Cacoy Doce Pares Eskrima demo clip:
I first found this nice, very slick demo clip on youtube and was then able to track it to their website here: Doce Pares Eskrima. That is the beauty of the Internet. Communication on a global scale. Every day some one from some where sends me video or other information or purchases IRT DVDs, etc. I have made acquaintances and friends from all over the world!
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I am a serious Marital Sciences practitioner who loves what he does! The purpose of this blog is to spread these sciences and inspire!
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