Sydney Self Protection Solutions

Sydney Self Protection New Web Site......

nobody@vox.com(Sydney Self Protection Solutions) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:37:59 +1000

Sydney Self Protection is continuing the journey with a NEW site, please follow link http://sydneyselfprotection.com/

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Strong-Arm Tactics An Interview With Jim Armstrong

nobody@vox.com(Sydney Self Protection Solutions) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:35:58 +1100

In last months Blitz Martial Arts Mag, Australia's Number 1 Martial Arts magazine.

Melbourne's Raw Combative Self Protection Instructor Jim Armstrong gets Interviewed.

Strong-Arm Tactics An Interview With Jim Armstrong.

Strong-Arm Tactics An Interview 1 With Jim Armstrong

Strong-Arm Tactics An Interview 2 With Jim Armstrong

Strong-Arm Tactics An Interview 3 With Jim Armstrong

Strong-Arm Tactics An Interview 4 With Jim Armstrong

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Richard Dimitri's Peaceful Warrior Interview

nobody@vox.com(Sydney Self Protection Solutions) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:37:54 +1100

In this months Blitz Martial Arts magazine, Richard Dimitri is interviewed by Adam Cooper.

A fantastic insight to the evolution of Senshido, enjoy!

Peaceful Warrior Interview 1

Peaceful Warrior Interview 2

Peaceful Warrior Interview 3

Peaceful Warrior Interview 4

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Sydney Senshido Seminar 2009

nobody@vox.com(Sydney Self Protection Solutions) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:42:05 +1100

Last weekend Sydney City hosted Senshido "Shredders Cutting Edge" & "Walk the Talk" seminars.

See below for review & pictures, thanks to Derek Z for the review & Clive Girdham for the pictures.

"Walk the Talk" review

WOW! What a great weekend of seminars.

Walk the Talk…

I haven’t attended a huge number of seminars, but this one certainly raised the bar high. The underlying concept of this seminar was avoidance of a confrontation. Many schools will preach avoiding a confrontation at all costs, but rarely do you get involved in drills that equip you with the skills to avoid, or pre-empt if necessary. All of the drills we covered were designed to reduce reaction time and increase perception time.

Rich discussed the important yet almost always overlooked fact, that a confrontation begins with an emotional assault, and that the physical aspects are incidental. That is why it is important to train our minds, not only our bodies. Over the weekend I didn’t see anyone pulling off spinning backfists or flying armbars when being confronted. However, I did see people diffusing the aggressor with dialogue and other psychological tactics.

Without going into detail on the actual drills, here are some skills we developed:
• Peripheral vision
• Awareness of the changes in body language/positioning, facial expression and intent when an aggressor is about to strike
• Ability to pick up on movement within a crowd of people
• Ability to analyze a crowd of people quickly, identifying possible threats
• An understanding of how our body wants to react/flinch from a passive stance when an attack is launched
• Increasing our reaction time (using an extended version of the “opportunity drill” for the Senshido fans out there)

I felt using Rich’s drills, that even in the few hours we were there, there was an improvement in all of these areas. Imagine training it for a few months or years?!

Rich mentioned he was a bit unsure of peoples reaction to the seminar as it wasn’t as “hands on” as other seminars. I don’t think this was an issue as the mental stuff still required participation and focus from everyone, not to mention that it did get more physical towards the end. Training these “soft skills” is IMO more important than hard skills. There is no point in learning defenses to x or y attacks when you don’t even see it coming.

A big thank you to Rich for making the trip downunder, Dom for putting it all together, and Phil, Athena and Nick for helping out. See you all next year!

Senshido Sydney Seminar Group Pic 09

The Austraisanew Zealand connection

Senshido Sydney Seminar 09

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Brisbane Senshido Seminars 2009

nobody@vox.com(Sydney Self Protection Solutions) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:10:53 +1100

last weekend Brisbane hosted for the first time Senshido's "Shredders Cutting Edge" & "Walk the Talk" seminars. These seminars went down extremely well & were well received by all attendees present.

Here's a great review from one of the seminar attendees, HERE

Next stop on the tour is Sydney this Sat 21st March,

For further details pls follow link www.senshidosydney2009.eventbrite.com

Craig Gemeiner, Me & Rich Dimitri

Brisbane Senshido Seminars 2009

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Aust 2009 Senshido Seminars.

nobody@vox.com(Sydney Self Protection Solutions) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:08:39 +1100

Serious about Self Protection?

You differently shouldn't miss out on these Senshido seminars then!

Kicking off this weekend 14th March up in Brisbane for an action packed weekend.

Then a week later 21st March down in Sydney for more of the good stuff.

Please follow link's for seminar details;

http://senshidosydney2009.eventbrite.com/
http://senshidobrisbane2009.eventbrite.com/

Dont Miss out!

Aust Senshido Seminars 09

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Drilling knife attacks 1 on 1 and 2 on 1.

nobody@vox.com(Sydney Self Protection Solutions) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:26:03 +1100

Footage below taken from our Sunday session a few weeks ago.

Continuing on from our static knife drills the week before this one, now drilling one on one & two on one knife attacks.

The idea behind every thing we do is finding out what works for the individual under realistic energy & pressure testing in a safe environment.

1 on 1 & 2 on 1 various knife attack drills

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18th Jan SSPS Class 09.

nobody@vox.com(Sydney Self Protection Solutions) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:39:35 +1100

A quick recap from yesterdays session,

We started with the bread & butter warm up drill good'ol vertical grappling.

Hands requiring face drill/ vertical grappling.

Starting in a neutral wrestling position, both persons require face,

This turns a wrestling drill in to a practical grappling drill for learning how to Shred (gross motor feral fighting)

We change partners until we have gone around once or twice.

The Fence/ Passive Stance.

Drill 1

Starting in a neutral every day stance the attacker pushes you aggressively hard in the chest & or slaps you hard around your face.

You get verbally abused & you adopt a passive stance/ Fence up, you try to diffuse the attacker & control the space, distance of the attacker etc.

Change roles & training partners.

Important thing is making your stance congruent to oneself, so it doesn't look dodgy! your partner will tell you if your

passive stance/ Fence is congruent or looks dodgy!

Drill 2.

Again starting in a neutral every day stance the attacker pushes you aggressively hard in the chest & or slaps you hard around your face.

The bad guy now has a helmet on his head & gets verbally aggressive to the good guy, & you adopt a passive stance/ Fence up,

you try to diffuse him again but realise the attacker isnt listening to you & he's getting more & more aggro you need to pre-empt him fast!

Once the good guy has pre-empted the attacker you then do a quick debrief & confirm whether you executed a telegraphic strike or

non-telegraphic strike.

The important thing is being a good bad guy & the old saying "attack beats reaction" or hand is quicker than the eye.

Static Knife drills.

Its been a while since we did static knife attacks.

This is an overkill drill, where we start the attacker a few feet away or closer,

loads of verbals & high energy attacking.

Covered the basics beforehand & then drill, drill drill.

I would like to say a thanks to Kerri who was the only lady in a class full of blokes well done girl &

Adam @ http://www.lowtechcombat.com/ who popped down to train great to put a name to your face mate, both are in the clip below.

Static Knife drills.

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Raw Combatives Sydney Nov Workshop PT 4

nobody@vox.com(Sydney Self Protection Solutions) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:58:48 +1100

Forth & final part of the Raw Combatives Sydney seminar clips,

Jim continues on.... discusses understanding pain, power, emotions being a better person/ powerful person & the all important avoidance.

Raw Combatives Sydney Nov Workshop PT 4

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SD Forum Ultimate Protection Seminar, Sat 21st Feb 09, ENGLAND.

nobody@vox.com(Sydney Self Protection Solutions) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:56:52 +1100

http://www.completeselfprotection.com/sdf-ultimate-seminar.html

If your in the UK & serious about your Self protection education then you definitely shouldn't miss this seminar.

Have a butchers at the line up of the X10 international instructors, if i wasn't in Sunny Sydney then I would be attending....

Al Peasland

www.completeselfprotection.com

Bob Spour

www.ultimateselfprotection.com

Peter Skillen

http://www.warrior.moonfruit.com/

Carl Lewis

www.scimitarmartialarts.co.uk

Dave Turton

www.selfdefencefederation.co.uk

Lee Morrison

www.urbancombatives.com

Eddie Quinn

http://www.the-approach.com

Tony Terranova + Alan Macdonald

www.fightingfit.gb.com/

Mark Fry

www.integratedselfprotection.com

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