Structured Self Protection The Game Plan E-Book

Agisilaos Traianos

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

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Beschreibung

Dear Friend, this is the first CXT - Training Manual in english. CXT is a realitybased training method which is also rooted in the Filipino Martial Arts. Heiko Hahn and Agisilaos Traianos, two experienced close combat instructors with a history of almost 30 years in the martial arts, are taking you to the fascinating trip of learning a martial art, right from zero. This book is already used as a training guide by some hand to hand combat coaches of the police in Switzerland and Germany. Now you have the chance to dive into the fascinating world of the martial arts or to expand your horizons by integrating the CXT concepts into your way of training and fighting. I hope you enjoy our work.

Leseprobe

“Be determined,and it will be done.”

(from China)

Table of Contents

Beta-8

About Richard Grannon, Founder of BETA-8

Definition of BETA-8

Training Program and Structure of Beta-8 Training

The CORE GAME PLAN

The Strategy

PHASE 1: The OPENER

PHASE 2: The BLAST

PHASE 3: The CRUSH

PHASE 4: The STOMP

Summary CORE GAME PLAN

Ergonomics & Skill Sets

Ergonomics & Skill Sets Exercise 1: Pad Work

Ergonomics & Skill Sets Exercise 2: Clinch Work

Summary

Table of Contents

CXT

The History of CXT

The Filipino Martial Arts – Technical Basis of CXT

The Concept

The Fight or Flight Instinct

Action vs. Reaction

Movement Dynamic

And What Exactly Do We Do Differently?

Der CXT Process of Learning

How Do You Learn the CXT Concept?

The CORE GAME PLAN

PRE FIGHT

PHYSICAL FIGHT (CORE GAME PLAN)

POST FIGHT

The 4 Fight Priorities

The Structure of Learning

Practical Training

The Basis: FIGURE 8

The MANO BOX DRILL

The KNEE TO ELBOW FLOW

CONTROL ELEMENTS

The FENCE DRILL

FIGHT PLAN Implementation

DEFANG THE SNAKE CONCEPT

COUNTER FOR COUNTER DRILLS

KNIFE TAPPING DRILL

KNIFE CLINCH DRILL

STICK GRAPPLING

CORE FIGHT PLAN FOR WEAPONS

Applications of CXT

Introduction

Preparation

Case 1 – FACE RIP

Case 2 – COVER to BREAK OUT

Case 3 – STOP KICK

Case 4 – ELBOW THROW

Case 5 – PREEMPTIVE to ELBOW

Case 6 – With the Back to the Wall

Case 7 – LEVERAGED

Case 8 – FOREARM LEVER to THROW

Case 9 – ELBOW ROLL to HEAD LOCK

Case 10 – COVER and CRUSH to BREAK OUT

Case 11 – Through the Wall

Case 12 – NECK WRENCH Case

Case 13 – FAR TOSS

Case 14 – LIGHTS OUT!

Case 15 – CHOKING

Case 16 – COMMUNICATION!

Closing Words

Table of Contents

Self Defense With the Palm Stick

Introduction

Useful Tools

Lesson 1: The Basis Figure 8

Lesson 2: The Check & Hit Drill

Lesson 3: Protective Mechanism

Lesson 4: High Low High

Lesson 5: Low Line Kick & Knee

Lesson 6: „Elbow Roll”

Lesson 7: The Tactical Flashlight

Lesson 8: The CXT Protection-Principle: Front Grip Thrust

Lesson 9: Entry, Hit and Control

Lesson 10: Scenario Training

Scenario 1: Stopping and controlling an aggressive person

Scenario 2: Escaping an attack from behind with a bear hug

Scenario 3: Defense of an attack from the side - Cold-Attack

A Few Closing Words

Preface

Heiko Hahn and Agisilaos Traianos

Hello dear martial-arts enthusiast,

With this book we want to offer you an insight into the world of self-defense and close combat. The two systems and training methods in the field of self-defense that are presented complement one another in a special way, so that the study of the two methods represents a complete martial arts and close combat training course.

The BETA8 is a simple but effective method that will teach you how to quickly and successfully defend yourself in an emergency situation. Certified psychologist and self-defense expert Richard Grannon developed this training method. The BETA8 is the easiest way to develop all the attributes of a fighter. The focus will be on the goal and the goal is to learn to fight and to survive. This is why the method is separated into four sections that one will also directly encounter in training. The Combative Cross Training (CXT) is a complete training system, developed by Heiko Hahn, an experienced former PFS trainer under martial arts legend Paul Vunak. The CXT is a total martial arts cross-training with emphasis on realistic personal protection. CXT draws on the movement patterns of Filipino martial arts (Kali, Escrima, Arnis) and the training logic of BETA8. This ensures the highest possible training effectiveness with the goal of increasing the fighting abilities.

Who should read this?

The need to be able to protect yourself and your family in this day and age is an ability that increasingly more people want to possess, and that includes both men and women. For this reason, many people are undergoing self-defense training, though without first informing themselves as to what would be a suitable method for them.

This book is meant for all those who prefer to more intensely and extensively look into the form of self-defense training that is most suited to them.

It is also ideal for those people for whom self-defense and self-protection is a part of their professional daily routine – public authorities, the judiciary, security personnel. People in these fields are often dependent on possessing good self-defense skills but they usually only receive superficial training in their respective job and therefore take up the topic on their own in the hope of starting a suitable training.

Aside from this focus on the primary interest of “self-protection”, the book is certainly also well-suited for all martial artists who are interested in broadening and complementing their horizon in the world of martial arts.

Coaches

Accompanying you through this book and presenting the three different trainings methods will be:

Heiko Hahn

JKD / FMA Instructor

BETA-8 Practitioner

Founder CXT

Agisilaos Traianos

Former Alpha Combat System Coach

BETA-8 Practitioner

CXT Coach

Founder Core24

A short introduction into combative psychology by Richard Grannon

The self protection training presented in this book will give you a rock solid foundation in the physical skills you need to help you to deal with real world violence.

There is however a key element to self protection skills that is probably the most essential and yet, ironically the most overlooked.

That is of course, the psychological preparation element.

As you probably already know real violence, if you have been unfortunate enough to experience it, can be a deeply emotionally traumatic experience.

We have too factors to overcome when preparing ourselves mentally and emotionally for this disturbing experience:

The aggression we receive

The aggression we must harness and use to protect ourselves

Just the idea that someone would attack you physically for no other reason than that they are having a bad day or that you have something they want is rightly appalling to any decent and moral person. But, of more concern to self protection instructors, it can actually be so traumatic to some people not properly prepared for a violent assault that they can go into a state of shock that makes them more vulnerable to criminal predators. We must prepare diligently not just for physical violence but for the emotionally disturbing effect of raw, hate fuelled psychological aggression.

The second thing often overlooked in an overly media-hypnotised, macho ideology venerating culture that is high on posturing and low on experience is that being physically aggressive to another human being can also be traumatic. Intra species (rather than inter species) violence in all other mammals other than humans is usually highly symbolic and very low risk in terms of lasting physical injury.

To actually follow the core objectives outlined in the self protection strategies of this book of doing the most physical damage to an opponent as quickly as possible may very well lead to unforeseen, long lasting post traumatic disturbance.

We must also take preparing to deliver violence to another human being with maximum aggression very seriously. Handling this kind of energy is necessary, it is powerful, but it’s like handling a strong toxin. The effect can be corrupting and warping to the personality, which in itself can create traumatic effects.

How should combative psychology be applied in training?

Simply answered: with violent intent.

Take any of the physical techniques in this book, pick one of the drills at random and work through it with an “empty” state of mind, do it mindfully, but relaxed. Then try it whilst talking, making jokes, laughing.

Then try it whilst imagining if you didn’t physically cripple the man in front of you that your family would be tortured and killed.

I’m not saying this to be gratuitous or to posture some kind of fantasy of being a super macho badass. I’m saying this to help us to reconnect to what our core objective is:

Preparing for real world violence.

In all its barbaric, cruel, immoral, sadistic, chaotic, frightening, savage, painful, disturbing, loathsome horror.

People practice for different reasons. I think it’s not unfair to say there are 3 groups of people:

1. For the social element. It’s a hobby, it’s fun, it gets me out of the house, I get to wear a t-shirt and belong to a club. I kind of feel that on the back end I might be making myself safer.

2. For the personal development. It’s an art form. It makes me feel connected to an important and fascinating part of human history. It exposes me to foreign language and cultural contexts that expand my horizons and make me a better person.

3. For the preparation of violence. It’s an ugly but necessary part of my life. The threat may be immediate or it may be vague. Perhaps through work or lifestyle or where I am forced to live. Or the time in history in which I was born. I must. I have no choice.

All three are valuable. I love the cultural historical elements and what a shame it would be if we lost sight of the “art” element of martial arts. If we do that, what are we fighting for?

The social element is an important part of peoples lives that many people in psychological research and counselling feel they are lacking. They want to be part of a team, a tribe, a brother/sisterhood sharing a common goal.

In my own training, I do all I can to satisfy these needs in people. It’s a good an positive thing and we should exploit the opportunity we have to reconnect people to each other and to history and culture in a meaningful way.

But.

But, some of the session time must look and feel like real world violence. If it’s only 10 active minutes out of the hour at least it is something. At some point in the session we have to remember to take what we are doing seriously. To respect the endeavour, the objectives, the risk and the duty we have to protect ourselves and each other. To show deference to the horrible end results of failing to prepare for violence thoroughly.

This doesn’t need to be heavy or weird. But it does need to be violent.

How do we train with violent intent?

It’s the subject of a book in and of itself.

I’ll try and explain briefly.

First and foremost you must take yourself as close to the emotional and mental place you will be in during a violent assault as you can. You may need to vividly imagine unpleasant, frightening, chaotic and nightmarish scenarios.

You will certainly need to practise the skillset of accessing altered emotional “states” and you should have a good working knowledge of “anchoring” those states.

You must know how to control, decrease and increase (to the limited degree that it is possible) your adrenaline at will

You must treat a training session as the opportunity not just to train your body, but your heart, your will, your intent, your adrenaline, your emotions, your guts, your spine, your primal will to survive.

Secondly and just as important: go slow.

Once you have activated your primal survival, mammalian aggression fight response to threat every move you make will automatically and unconsciously be faster, harder and more injurious. Meaning, you are now way more likely to accidentally hurt your partner!

It goes without saying that it would be silly to train to protect ourselves from injury only to become injured during the training that allegedly stops us from getting injured. But the fact is that many do.

Above all else, respect your training partner, they are offering their body for you to train with and you should honour that implicit contract by keeping them safe. They are the most precious training equipment you have access to. Nothing responds, attacks and moves in quite such a human-like and realistic way as a living breathing human after all.

Smiling and laughing during training is good for the students well being. Showing the historical roots of why things are done a certain way expands our horizons and differentiates us from the thugs.

But if this is all a training session consists of it has as much relevance to preparing you for real world violence as swimming.

Train your mind and your heart every session.

Self protection must be defined as a violent struggle for survival or it is not self protection at all.

It might be “control and restraint”, sportive combat or ego posturing but without the element of being forced into violence against our will we cannot and should not call it self protection.

Remember it’s asymmetric, chaotic, ugly violence. When it happens it will most likely appear from nowhere. It will be shocking. Your bodies response to it will be shocking to you unless you train for it.

You can train your mind and your emotions to withstand physical and psychological violence. You can train yourself to harness your own adrenaline and natural, primal aggression response and you should. The experience will make you stronger, more confident and more fully developed as a human being.

Train the mental elements diligently and you are upping your chances of a desirable outcome considerably.

I endorse Agi and Heiko because I feel they represent the best elements of what modern day self protection can be. They approach the training in a sincere, humble and unpretentious way and whilst being respectful of all the reasons why people train they always keep an eye on the core objective:

To prepare their students for real world violence and ultimately make them safer.

KEY CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK

What do these two system have in common that has them appearing together in one book? Both systems – the Beta-8 as well as the CXT – have an emphasis on realistic self-protection and follow a clear combat strategy instead of addressing a technical “attack catalogue”. Working with a self-protection strategy (also called Fight Plan, Game Plan, Combat Model) is the common core of these two methods and also the core content of this book.

The next chapters will explain to you why this makes sense, how it differs from the most common and traditional methods and how it is implemented in each of the two systems.

We hope you enjoy this book!

Foreword

by Agisilaos Traianos

Why we wrote this book? Because sometimes there is such a collection of coincidences, so much hunger for new things, so many ideas buzzing around in the mind, that you have no choice but to do it. Sometimes you meet incredible people like Heiko Hahn and Richard Grannon and you find common ground and every project appears to run as if on its own. The shared point of interest was always to sensibly expand and test the training methods and to share the result of this work with people who could benefit from it. It has been my great pleasure to constantly view the world of martial arts and the “supreme art of physical injury” (just kidding!!!) from a new perspective and to find new ways of achieving the goal of useful and effective training.

Even with his great experience Heiko Hahn started as a student of mine in the Alpha Combat System, to become first of all a good friend and in the years to come, my teacher in the ways of the modern FMA. We trained together and tried out several methods from the endless pool of martial arts. On our path we came across Richard Grannon’s work, which was the starting point for the CXT-Project.

Based on his realistic approach and ideas on how to train effectively the own self defense skills, we first got our certification as BETA8-practitioners and build from this theoretical and practical core the CXT-Method.

Which actually is a broader training plan incorporating drills and techniques from the fascinating world of the Filipino Martial Arts. If there wasn’t for Heiko’s determination to work out the training plan and the theoretical structure of CXT and Richie’s great ideas and his contribution to this book nothing of this would ever happen.

Therefore I want to thank both for their commitment and i hope this book will help the reader to find a practical, effective and fun way into the world of martial arts.

Cheers

Beta-8

Structured Self-Protection: BETA – 8 SYLLABUS

About Richard Grannon, Founder of BETA-8

Richard Grannon is a “self-protection instructor” whose views and training methods distinguish themselves from the crowd in a refreshing and convincing manner.

Many factors in his self-protection training are based on his many years of experience as a bouncer at various clubs around the world. Having to deal with insulted and aggressive people on a daily basis, one very quickly learns which techniques work and which ones are doomed to fail due to the stress of such a situation. A few years working at the door will teach one a lot about human behavior and how best to handle drunks, brawlers, drug users and occasional psychopaths.