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Originally Posted by Sake Sipper  So, being the better grappler is an advantage, and being 'aware' is something you don't need to spend years of your life learning. It seems to me that too many inferior grapplers (or whatever-ers) are eager to believe that congratulating themselves on their 'awareness' somehow makes up for the fact that they have demonstrably inferior skills. Instead of focusing on bolstering those skills, they find it easier and more comforting to tell themselves that the guys who toss them around like children in the gym/dojo/dojang/kwoon/whatever suddenly become their equals on 'da street' because of their super awareness (or worse, their 'deadly' techniques they are holding in reserve)... |
Very true, but notice I said being aware doen't cut it if you don't know what your looking for. That and most guys who talk are just all talk anyway.
I teach what I call street focus jujitsu, a little mixed JJJ, Karate & Ninjitsu principles. Not grappling skills aren't the best but the idea isn't bto be the best grappler, striker but the survivor at the end of the day. So all that "awareness training" comes done to a small list;
- attention to details
- body language
- commonly improvised weapons
- common set up methods of assaults and ambushes
- basic psychology
plus techniques like striking, sweeps, takedowns, throws and groundfighting.
I can spend all day telling guys to look out for blind corners or these signs or I can make them watch out for the "thugs" in class which change everyone at random. I also use training exercises which go beyonf techniques like what we nicknamed the "Circle of Light."
Basically we cut of the lights, except a few black lights, put on some very loud metal & line ten students behind a a circle of strobe lights. The lights are set to flash in a persons eyes who stands in the center of circle. I call number that on the stobe light and one person at random enters and engages. The lights, the music have a disorienting effect. The guy in the center has 2 minutes to submit or KO their attacker and after that they have two people to face at the same time. If a person is old enough and drinks and has a way home, I sometimes let them drink a few beers (2 or 3) and hop in.
This actually a form of reflex & awareness conditioning, your contous mind gets a sensory overload and you become confused and distarcted. That forces you awareness to focus and you to control the fight or flight response. Its akin to the old "game of stones" or "What was your attacker wearing games" used by MI goons...
