Knock Out Fitness

Martial-artists often look for scenarios to practice that mimic reality. The closer they can get to mimicking a real emergency in practice, the better their chance of responding efficiently in a real self-defense encounter. The following scenario consideration is just what the martial-arts practitioner ordered…Defending Doorways and Hallways, “Stage One” In many of my articles, and even one of my books, I suggest that you practice defending your loved ones. You put them behind you, for example, down a hall or on the other side of the door. Then you keep your practice partners from getting past you to your relative or significant other.This is a good place to start.Grab a stuffed animal, your favorite teddy bear, and put it behind you. It will represent your family member or loved one.Now, take about five steps forward. Position your partner in front of you, and keep him or her from getting past you to the fuzzy critter.Where Do You Live? Defending from a hall or doorway is a good start, but now it’s time to make your practice session even more practical. By practical, I mean tailored to

People either don’t realize the difference between Martial Arts and Real Self Defense or the don’t want to admit that someone can be right about this topic.Though in movies it may seem to look all the same, there is a quite big difference between these ways of fighting.According to some sources, there should be three basic categories. Traditional-Cultural Arts, Sport Martial Arts and Real Self Defense.To think that one is better than other would be wrong. Each has it’s own added value for the one practising it and it should be in general knowledge of people to know what the hell they are training in reality.Traditional-Cultural Martial ArtsAs the title says, Cultural Arts are connected with each different nation and it’s culture. Like Karate for Japan-Okinawa. That is a way of fighting that was developed not only as a fighting art, but also as a lifestyle. People did not train Karate, but they lived Karate.It went through a lot of different changes and is literally deformed in many diverse types of martial art. Experts say “If you want to train real Karate, you have to go to

Most martial arts and self defense students are taught how to defend against things like punches, grabs, kicks, and even weapon attacks. But, what about attacks, like a wall pin – where he has you shoved up and pinned against a wall, car, or other obstacle – where your attacker is using your surroundings as an aid for his assault?While this article cannot teach you everything you need to know to escape from the exact attack you might find yourself in, it does offer some very powerful strategies and tactics that you can use to turn the tables on him during one of these very dangerous attack-types. So, if this is something that you think is important to add to your toolbox of techniques, then read on.If not, then this article is definitely not for you.I’ll assume that, if you’re still reading, you want to learn how to deal with this very common type of attack.And, before I go into describing some of the strategies and tactics that I want to give you for surviving a wall-pin attack, I want to talk about something else that you

Although today martial arts is something that is considered by many people to be sport, marital arts began with the war like nature of humans and the need to defend yourself.In modern Western Civilization, we have become, for the most part, accustomed to war being a serious but far away event. Although personal violence comes into our life from time to time, it is mostly on the television news. It has not always been this way. People have been forced to defend themselves, their homes, and their families from deadly personal attack since the time we all lived in caves and dressed in animal furs. The history of martial arts begins there. It begins when the man had to be able to fight to defend himself or lose his life to a stronger and better fighter.The story of martial arts begins with the development of a warrior tradition in human development. Methods of self defense were developed using weapons when they were available and bare hands and feet when they were not. Once these skills were learned, they were passed on from generation to generation. The clans