Archive for the ‘PreConflict’ Category

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PPS123’s videos

February 24, 2008

Buyer beware.

from pps123.vodpod.com posted with vodpod

This funny Jim Carrey clip carries a very serious message…..beware the charlatan posing in a martial arts uniform.  Unfortunately self defense and martial arts are sometimes not the same. Effective self defense instruction is more to do with the teacher than the system. Those who are proficient in teaching self defense have spent a considerable time understanding the realities of violenceand as such may have modified their system or style to these realities. Many techniques within martial arts are applicable, when updated or modified, to deal with street violence but many more are not…..anyone who tries to sell you on their system but has not spent time understanding violence as it pertains to our modern world is not attuned to the realities of conflict.

If he teaches you techniques that do not appear realistic to you simply do not go back. To learn something unrealistic is worse than learning nothing as it may give you a false sense of  security which, when tested in a conflict, will fail you and may get you even more hurt.

All self defense systems should include elements of pre conflict, modified, gross motor based conflict, and post conflict. If they do not then buyers beware………

Stay Safe. Stay Alert.

P

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Video Camera Records Attempted Rape Video

February 24, 2008

from pps123.vodpod.com posted with vodpod

A thug follows a young woman and grabs her from behind while she was walking through a dimly lit parking lot, smoking a cigarette and talking on her cell phone late at night…..Beggar’s belief doesn’t it? How many of you out there are shaking your heads while tsk, tsking at the foolishness of this young woman asking yourselves “what was she thinking?” Now the purpose of this article in not to judge or criticize as we do not know they particulars of why she was where she was but rather to use it to learn from.  There are lessons here for all of us. I am sure we have all found ourselves walking down a darkened area, even if it’s in our own neighborhood, when we felt that sense of dread that caused us to catch our breath and pick up our pace……………………

There are a multitude of lessons to be learned from this story but we will focus on the few that are most relevant and easiest to implement to ensure this never happens to you.

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Washington D.C. Murder Caught On Video Video

February 24, 2008