How to use the environment as a weapon

While using various melee weapons such as your fists or knives in self defense are good, the use of the environment will greatly improve your skills as a fighter. The reason why the military and other great war strategists were so successful was because they realized the importance of using the environment to their advantage. Here are several key principles you should know to become a better warrior whether facing one opponent or multiple opponents.

* Don't restrict yourself to close quarters combat - Don't assume that you always have to fight your opponent face to face. You can fight from a distance with various tools and weapons from many different positions. It is not an act of cowardice, only resourcefulness. 

* Use improvised weapons - Are there cars nearby? Use them as obstacles. Slam or push your opponent into them. Do you have a ball point pen? Stab your opponent in vital areas with it. Is there a window nearby? Break it and use the broken glass to stab your opponent. Bright lights? Flash them in your opponent's eyes as a distraction. Are you in a confined area? Push your opponent into the walls and restrict his/her movements. When faced with projectiles, you could find cover or concealment. There's many different ways you can use weapons to improve your chances of survival. Learn to see everything around you as a weapon. 

* Camouflage - Soldiers and snipers are skilled in blending in with the environment to ambush their enemies. You can also use it applying your knowledge of nature to strategically defeat say a group of armed attackers. Blend in with your surroundings until you become virtually invisible. 

* Confuse your enemies - Attack at unpredictable patterns from various positions and conceal yourself in fog, water, buildings, trees, etc. Don't be confined to one predictable method of attack as the enemy can quickly figure you out. The more you stress and frustrate your enemies, the more chances you have of throwing them off guard.  

* Use traps - There's many ways you can use booby traps or other means of defeating your enemies such as luring them into dangerous animals or into hidden explosives. Drawing them out in the open, ambushing, and bating them are just some ways you could attack your enemy. 

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How to train for combat realism

You or someone else has probably been training hard to get in the best possible shape, practicing all the techniques taught in class, and sparring alot. After extensive training, it feels like the student is ready to defend him or herself in the street. When the situation presents itself however, the student may end up getting beaten to a pulp. This is the case for many martial artists and instructors. The reason? Improper training.

You can know all the right moves and have many quick reflexes but if you don't train realistically for combat, what you've learned won't be applicable. If you've been sparring with a Karate fighter, how likely is it for a skilled Karate fighter to attack you? If you've been practicing techniques with a cooperative partner, how likely are you to apply those techniques correctly on a violent person who's not cooperative? If you practice drills, what good will they do in actual combat?

It's unlikely that you will face a skilled fighter training in the same style as you and more likely that you will face an attacker who's reckless. Worse, you may freeze up despite all the training that you did and lose instantly as others have. Learn all the martial arts and techniques you want but they can't save you when you don't train for the streets. Why? Failure to manage stress and other psychological factors such as intimidation. Many street fights don't even begin with attacks, they begin with intimidation and threats on your wellbeing. To illustrate my point, watch the following video taken from "Beyond Scared Straight" and pay close attention to your reactions to the bald large inmate.

How did you feel? Do you think you could confront someone like him face to face? What if suddenly, he started swinging at you with aggressive and relentless brute force? If you can't manage stress in training, your performance suffers when you enter the real world of self defense.

According to Dave Grossman, professor of psychology, high levels of stress impair your ability to perform complex motor skills. In other words, you wouldn't be able to recall what you've learned in class under high levels of stress. How can you train to be combat ready?

1) Get rid of bad habits - Before anything, you must change your perspective on how you view self defense. Stop thinking of it as UFC ring fight because there are no rules in the streets or winning. There won't be time for you to both jump around and figure each other out before you get said person into a submission hold then make him/her tap. This is a fight for survival. You don't know if the other person is armed, has friends, is on drugs, so on. Be sure to also not look at combat from a point of techniques. Principles are far more important. Techniques are just tools to help you accomplish your goals rather than being the foundation of self defense. Practice effective and simple techniques. Flashy techniques look good but are often impractical and too complicated to perform under stress.

2) Simulate real combat - Combat systems such as Krav Maga and other military forces simulate as much of the real world combat as possible. According to Gestalt principles in psychology, we tend to see patterns in similar objects. The more you intensely train under stress in training as if your life was at stake, the more you'll retain what you've learned and perform at your full potential. If you've mastered sparring with a partner using the same style as you, try someone of a different style. Try sparring with people of different sizes, of different levels of violence, etc. Spar with multiple attackers. Do mock scenarios where you will be ambushed suddenly with seemingly real weapons or unarmed attackers. Keep it as free as possible making sure your practicing good form, following principles, and proper techniques.

3) Practice stress management - During training, you would want to also practice managing your stress. Have a partner or several try as hard as they can to intimidate you as you keep your cool under pressure. In Dave Grossman's book on combat, a study was done on three groups of rats put under stress. The first was dropped in a tub of water and it took 60 hours for them to drown. The second group was only held upside down above the water to create stress. After they were done freaking out, they slowly calmed themselves. They lasted 20 minutes before drowning. The last group was put under the same treatment except they were put back into their cages to recuperate. This was repeated several times until the rats got accustomed to it. Stress inoculation therapy is a great method in changing the way you view yourself and help manage your levels of stress under intense situations. Use a method called tactical breathing which involves taking one deep breath and holding it for 4 seconds before exhaling then repeating the same process three times. This technique is used by snipers in order to improve accuracy and focus.

Above all, have a strong willpower to endure everything you go through. Fight with everything you have because your life is at stake. If you enjoyed this post, subscribe to my blog for updates, more advice, and exclusive content in the near future. I'm proud and excited to offer a FREE sample chapter of my E-book "Jeet Kune Do: How to build your own fighting system for self defense!" It's essentially a step-by-step guide on how to make your own self defense system suited to fit your own needs using Jeet Kune Do. If you would love to receive your FREE chapter of my e-book, click on the link below and share a post via. social media then it's yours for FREE! Be sure to also fill out the survey on the right and provide feedback on my blog. Leave questions, comments, and suggestions below.

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How to defend against a sniper

How to defend against a sniper:

There have been several cases of ex-snipers or Marines who have committed homicides. You will probably get killed by a sniper especially a skilled one. Hopefully you will be able to survive with these tips. If you are the only one under attack by a sniper then your safest bet is to escape and get help. Trying to take out the sniper yourself especially when you have no gun is going on a suicide mission. Before we begin, remember to keep in mind the following factors that influence a sniper's killshot:

* Patience

* Accuracy

* Environment

* Stealth

* Focus

* Timing

* Cover and concealment

1) Avoid a sniper in the first place - If by some small chance you hear on the news that a sniper has killed some people in your area then avoid going there. There's not much that can be done when an unexpected sniper shoots you from afar so be observant to potential danger.

2) Learn to spot a sniper - Snipers are very good at hiding so the more you know about a sniper, the better. Signs of a sniper includes camouflage, lasers pointed at you, light reflected from the sniper's scope, seeing the rifle, and so on. The sooner you can identify the sniper before a shot is fired, the quicker you can react.

3) When a shot's fired, drop down and find cover - You will often see a sniper bullet before you hear it so as soon as you sense a sniper, get down low and find cover. The most common and fatal mistake is standing or crouching out in an open field. You will be an easy target for the sniper. Your instinct should be to get down as low as you can to make yourself harder to hit then quickly move into cover or concealment. Be sure that it doesn't give away your location via shadows, reflections, etc. It's very important that you distinguish between cover and concealment especially when facing a sniper. Depending on the sniper rifle, it can generate enough power to go through brick walls and hit you. Call 911 as quickly as possible.

4) Locate the sniper - Once the sniper has fired, you must find out where the shots are coming from. The trajectory of the bullet, the sound, the objects or people hit, supersonic shockwaves will give clues to the sniper's position. Keep track of as much information as you can to asses where the sniper could potentially be. You may need to get the sniper to continually fire so he could reveal more about his position. Be mindful of multiple snipers and their transitions in firing which is critical to your escape.

5) Locate the safest escape route - Once you've located the sniper, find the escape route closest to you. Make sure that it provides obstacles useful for cover and concealment. The most important thing to remember is to get out of the sniper's field of vision and range of fire.

5) Divert the sniper's attention - A sniper especially when using a scope is susceptible to all sorts of distractions. A smoke grenade or smoke bomb could conceal your movements as you make your escape. Explosives, glass, mirror reflections, gas, oil, dirt, and other objects can serve to blind or divert the sniper's attention allowing you time to escape.

6) Run in unpredictable patterns - Running in a straight line will most surely make you an easier target to kill. Moving in an unpredictable motion at different speeds and angles will make you a harder target to hit.

Additional tips to remember:

* The longer the sniper stays trying to find you, the more fatigue it causes the eyes. This is important in creating opportunities of escape.

* Use the environment to your advantage - Wind gusts can significantly divert the bullet's path away from hitting you so be mindful of changes to the environment.

Hopefully this will help you in your self defense against a sniper. If you enjoyed this post, subscribe to my blog for updates, more advice, and exclusive content in the near future. I'm proud and excited to offer a FREE sample chapter of my E-book "Jeet Kune Do: How to build your own fighting system for self defense!" It's essentially a step-by-step guide on how to make your own self defense system suited to fit your own needs using Jeet Kune Do. If you would love to receive your FREE chapter of my e-book, click on the link below and share a post via. social media then it's yours for FREE! Be sure to also fill out the survey on the right and provide feedback on my blog. Leave questions, comments, and suggestions below.

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