¿Qué la ley que decir acerca del uso de fuerza letal en una situación de autodefensa

This article addresses the issue of using lethal force in a self-defense situation. The following are laws pertaining to the State of Nevada that I have taken directly from their official web site at: http://www.nv.gov. To find your own state's web site, merely type in the following address (www.yourstatesabbreviation.gov) into your web browser with the two letter abbreviation for your state between the www. and .gov.

Now I am not an attorney, so please DO NOT consider this to be legal advice what-so-ever. That can only come from a competent and professionally licensed attorney in the state in which you reside concerning that particular state's laws governing the act of using lethal force in a self-defense situation.

For example, let's say you are faced with the following situation. You are walking to your car after a hard day at work when all of a sudden you see a man approaching you. He walks up to you and here is a transcript of what happens:

NOTE: The capital "A" stands for attacker and the capital "Y" stands for you.

A. Hey man, got any cash you can spare?

Y. Sorry, I just got off of work and I don't get paid till Friday.

A. (Pulls out a knife) Give me your wallet man, or I'll kill you.

Y. BAM! BAM! (Insert your favorite techniques or techniques here.) Your attacker is
now lying on the ground dead while you get in your car and call the police.

Here are the laws concerning this particular situation as defined by Nevada State Law.

NRS 200.120 "Justifiable homicide" defined. Justifiable homicide is the killing of a human being in necessary self-defense, or in defense of habitation, property or person, against one who manifestly intends, or endeavors, by violence or surprise, to commit a felony, or against any person or persons who manifestly intend and endeavor, in a violent, riotous, tumultuous or surreptitious manner, to enter the habitation of another for the purpose of assaulting or offering personal violence to any person dwelling or being therein.

OPINION:

Since your attacker not only threatened you with a deadly weapon (knife), he also verbalized his intent to kill you if you didn't do what he wanted, which was to give him your wallet. This would clearly put a reasonable person in fear for their life, which would in turn justify the use of lethal force.

NRS 200.130 Bare fear insufficient to justify killing; reasonable fear required. A bare fear of any of the offenses mentioned in NRS 200.120, to prevent which the homicide is alleged to have been committed, shall not be sufficient to justify the killing. It must appear that the circumstances were sufficient to excite the fears of a reasonable person, and that the party killing really acted under the influence of those fears and not in a spirit of revenge.

OPINION:

Merely being afraid that someone might do something does not justify the use of lethal force. For example; if the guy merely was walking towards you carrying a knife and looked mean wouldn't necessarily give you the right to use lethal force against him. For all you know he might be a sushi chef who just got off work and was tired and wanting to go home. There must be present certain criteria that would make a reasonable person believe that their life was in danger.

NRS 200.160 Additional cases of justifiable homicide. Homicide is also justifiable when committed:

1. In the lawful defense of the slayer, or his or her husband, wife, parent, child, brother or sister, or of any other person in his presence or company, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design on the part of the person slain to commit a felony or to do some great personal injury to the slayer or to any such person, and there is imminent danger of such design being accomplished; or

2. In the actual resistance of an attempt to commit a felony upon the slayer, in his presence, or upon or in a dwelling, or other place of abode in which he is.

OPINION:

You are lawfully justified in using lethal force to prevent, what a reasonable person would believe to be, a great personal injury to yourself and/or to prevent a felony being committed upon yourself or another person.

In this case you are defending your life and your lawful property (your wallet and its contents) from an attacker committing a felony armed assault who also verbalized his intent to kill you if you didn't comply with his requests.

NRS 200.200 Killing in self-defense. If a person kills another in self-defense, it must appear that:

1. The danger was so urgent and pressing that, in order to save his own life, or to prevent his receiving great bodily harm, the killing of the other was absolutely necessary; and 2. The person killed was the assailant, or that the slayer had really, and in good faith, endeavored to decline any further struggle before the mortal blow was given.

OPINION:

Was the danger in this example urgent? Well you had been confronted with an armed assault and threatened with being killed if you didn't hand over your wallet. So one could make the argument that yes, you were in a very dangerous and urgent situation.

Could you have disarmed the attacker without using lethal force? Once again, this may be a possibility depending upon many variables including your own abilities.

NRS 200.275 Justifiable infliction or threat of bodily injury not punishable. In addition to any other circumstances recognized as justification at common law, the infliction or threat of bodily injury is justifiable, and does not constitute mayhem, battery or assault, if done under circumstances which would justify homicide.

OPINION:

Say for example that you didn't kill your attacker, but merely say broke his spine and paralyzed him for life from the waist down. According to the law, if you are justified in killing your attacker but don't, then all force reasonably used against him is justified.

However, once your attacker is no longer a threat. You are legally obligated to stop your attack. For example; once you have broken your attacker's arm and he is no longer able to, or willing to hold the knife, you are not justified in breaking his other arm and both legs.

NRS 193.165 Additional penalty: Use of deadly weapon or tear gas in commission of a crime.

5. As used in this section, "deadly weapon" means:

(a) Any instrument which, if used in the ordinary manner contemplated by its
design and construction, will or is likely to cause substantial bodily harm or
death;

(b) Any weapon, device, instrument, material or substance which, under the
circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be used or threatened to be
used, is readily capable of causing substantial bodily harm or death; or

(c) A dangerous or deadly weapon specifically described in NRS 202.255, 202.265, 202.290, 202.320 or 202.350.

OPINION:

A knife is considered to be a deadly weapon and when used in the example given, adds legitimacy to the use of lethal force by the victim. If the same situation was carried out and the attacker had no weapon, it would be a lot harder to justify the use of lethal force. Even with the attacker verbalizing that he was going to kill you. Of course, each situation is uniquely different and what would be justified in one situation may not be in another.

Something that must be considered is the value of whatever your attacker wants in relation to your life and/or that of another. Is your life really worth the contents of your wallet? On the other hand, does anyone have the right to come up and threaten your life and take from you that which is yours? This is something that needs to be quietly reflected upon by each and every person in order to find out for yourself what is best for you.

In closing, I would like to emphasize the fact that at all times you should try and avoid potentially dangerous or violent situations. However, if you are unable to, always use only that force which is necessary for each given situation. Remember, every situation is going to be uniquely different and what may work well in one situation may be totally inappropriate to use in another. Always try to use your brains before using your brawn.

One final thought, even though you may be totally in the right, you may still find yourself facing civil as well as criminal charges. I highly recommend that you should have a qualified and competent criminal attorney on retainer just in case. Especially if you are in an occupation where you have to use physical force as part of your job, such as; a police officer, correctional officer, security guard, bouncer, etc.

Shawn Kovacich has been practicing the martial arts for over 25 years and currently holds the rank of 4th degree (Yodan) black belt in both Karate and Tae Kwon Do. Shawn has also competed in such prestigious full-contact bare knuckle karate competitions as the Shidokan Open and the Sabaki Challenge, among others. In addition to his many accomplishments, Shawn is also a two time world record holder for endurance high kicking as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. Shawn is the author of the highly acclaimed Achieving Kicking Excellence? series and can be reached via his web site at: http://www.kickingbooks.com

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Autodefensa y lucha contra: cuando está el mejor tiempo de utilizar una técnica sobre su oponente

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A common term used in the Japanese martial arts community for the defender is called a "tori," while the attacker is called a "uke." As I was coming up through the ranks, my fellow classmates and I rephrased the Japanese word "uke" to mean dummy, instead of attacker. We did this because anyone foolish enough to be the "uke" for one of our instructors during a demonstration was definitely a few cans short of a six-pack. This particular bit of philosophy would follow me throughout my entire journey as a student and as a student/teacher, which is what I still am today. That is a student first, and a teacher second.

Now as much as I hated being the "uke" for one of my instructors, I must admit that I did enjoy being the "tori" to my students. A fact I am sure that my instructors would reluctantly admit to. My all time favorite "uke" was the naysayer student in the class. Now anyone who has taught for any length of time knows just who I am talking about. We have all had that one student who never quite believes you when you teach them something or constantly lives in the land of, "What if..." I have had several such students over the years and one of my favorites was also a friend of mine for a time that we called Big Bob.

Now Bob was called Big Bob for obvious reasons. He stood about 6 foot 4 inches tall and weighed in at a little over 250 lbs. He was literally big, and yes his name was Bob, hence the nickname Big Bob. At the same time, I also had another student who was also named Bob, and he was called Little Bob. However, his stories will be saved for another time.

Because Bob was so big and due to the fact that he was already a fairly proficient fighter, he had a tendency not to believe that a particular technique or techniques would actually work on a larger more experienced person in an actual self-defense situation. Bob was also constantly living in the land of "What If..." Needless to say, he was always putting himself in the position of being my "uke" whether he really wanted to or not. This ended up backfiring on Big Bob in a really dramatic way one night during a class on judo throwing techniques.

As I was demonstrating the throwing techniques on one of my other senior students who happened to be about the same size as me, I could see this look of disbelieve on Bob's face. I knew that this was going to be one of those times where he didn't believe that the technique that I was demonstrating would work on him. Knowing this, I decided to hasten the course of events that I knew would transpire by asking if anyone had any questions. Not to my surprise, guess who was the first one to raise his hand? That's right, Bob.

Bob was very respectful, yet didn't believe that the throw I was demonstrating would work on a larger opponent. Trying to keep the smile off of my face, I asked Bob to step up and be my "uke" while I demonstrated the effectiveness of the throw. Apparently I wasn't too successful in hiding my glee as Bob suddenly got a case of the, "Oops, I think I'm in trouble" look on his face, and tried to back out of being the "uke" by stating that he really did believe me now. Of course I would have none of that and insisted that Bob step up onto the mat so that I could answer his question by showing him that the technique did in fact work.

Bob reluctantly got onto the mat and proceeded to stand facing directly towards me. Now if you have ever practiced Judo before, you know that your basic starting position is with both persons facing each other, with their right hand grasping their partners left lapel and the left hand grabbing their partner's right sleeve. This is the position that Bob and I took as I continued explaining the intricacies of this move to the class. I told Bob exactly what I was going to do and asked him to do whatever he could think of to avoid being thrown. I moved into position slower than normal and allowed Bob the opportunity to avoid being thrown, which he did do. I then proceeded to attempt to throw Bob several times, with him avoiding being thrown each time. Needless to say, Bob's confidence about me not being able to throw him so far was growing exponentially and he was exuding that cockiness that comes when you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are right. Only in this case, nothing could have been further from the truth.

As any good instructor will tell you, it is easy to defend against that which is known to you. Yet not so easy to defend against that which is unknown. You see so far during this demonstration Bob knew what I was going to do because I had not only told him, but I had actually performed the moves slower than normal to allow him the opportunity to avoid them. Although this particular portion of the exercise was not consciously known to him at the time. You see what I was doing was setting Bob up, literally, for the fall. While it appeared that Bob had been winning the battles, I was preparing to win the war.

I tried one more time unsuccessfully to throw Bob and then conceded to the class that it appeared that Bob was right, that this particular judo throw wouldn't work on a larger opponent. I then proceeded to start teaching another lesson and once again used Bob as my "uke." Suddenly and obviously unexpectedly, instead of kicking at Bob I rushed in grabbed a hold of him and executed a beautiful picture perfect hip throw that had Bob's feet scraping the ten foot high ceiling in our dojo as he flew over my head and landed with a resounding thud onto the mat. Bob continued to lie on the mat for several moments in utter disbelief that I had just thrown him. Finally Bob got up and I could tell that he was a bit taken aback. I asked Bob what was wrong and he said, "You were supposed to kick me, not throw me. I didn't even know it was coming."

"Exactly my point" I replied, "So what did you learn?" Bob thought about it for a minute and then responded by telling me that he needed to be sneaky. Not quite the answer I was looking for, but not a bad one either. I proceeded to tell Bob, and the entire class, that if you tell your opponent what you are going to do, then he will expect it and find a way to avoid it or turn it against you. That is why it is so important not to telegraph your intentions to your opponent. Telegraphing your intentions can be done in a verbal manner like I had just demonstrated or by some subconscious action such as bending of the knees, clenching of the fists, moving slower than normal, etc.

Always remember that the element of surprise is your greatest asset in any kind of combat or self-defense situation. Strive to keep the element of surprise away from your opponent by always being aware of your opponent, his actions, and your surroundings. This should be done while at the same time maintaining the element of surprise on your side. This does not come easy, but it does get easier with lots of practice.

I also reminded the entire class that Judo was founded by Dr. Jigoro Kano, a man of slight stature for the express purpose of working against a larger stronger opponent. In addition to that, Judo, as with all martial arts, relies on the proper use of scientific principles and the correct execution of technique in order to achieve its maximum effectiveness.

Remember, ignorance may be bliss, but knowledge truly is power.

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5 Maneras de ruin su formación de autodefensa - parte 2

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Fatal Flaw #2: Structuring the Fight

You can't fool your subconscious mind. It knows what's real and what's illusion when it comes to life-and-death struggles. Regardless of fighting style, your mind and body will move naturally, responding purely to the attacker's motion instead of following an internal script. --From the book Attack Proof: The Ultimate Guide to Personal Protection

Real violence is not structured, choreographed or patterned. Anyone who denies this fact of life which is supported by police, morgue and infantry reports is living in a Hollywood fantasy. To train, therefore, as if fights are in anyway structured, is a complete waste of time and energy, not to mention suicidal. I will simply provide two examples, though they are essentially one and the same. In the grand scheme of things they apply to every form of fighting that has no appreciation for the randomly chaotic nature of a fight. Guided Chaos assumes all fights are hell storms of non-patterned, non-choreographed movement.

The first example encompasses fighting systems where the practitioners practice what they falsely believe to be scientifically predetermined responses of the human body to damage. The practitioners feel that this is a blueprint which allows them to bypass training where both parties are actively resisting.

What I mean by active resistance is training where both parties are performing to their maximum ability to simultaneously avoid and inflict damage or at least some type of control. Training in any other fashion to the exclusion of this is presumptuous as well as dangerous as it completely stunts any real sensitivity development. In other words, unless you can get your stuff off first, what you are creating by removing active resistance is nothing more than play fighting.

After structuring the fight, they attempt to add randomness by free-fighting and still fall short because instead of appreciating random chaos, they are essentially turning the fight into perfect pieces of a beautiful puzzle which they put back together in any way they see fit. This is not reality.

The second example would be the malpractice of Chi Sao or Kata, where artists are guilty of practicing prearranged forms or techniques derived from forms where the footwork and strikes are predetermined like a choreographed dance. Even if the techniques are in random order, this does nothing to help one handle the random chaos which occurs in a violent conflict that could always potentially escalate.

Since they've already decided that the fight has a script, their minds can't handle any deviation from the truth and will often lock up, leading to stiffness and inaction.Just as often and equally detrimental, they'll completely abandon all the form and training they've spent yearsattempting to perfectbecause they were training for a dynamic that didn't exist for serious fighting in the first place.

Wild Animals Fight Wildly--Without Resorting to "Animal Forms"

Animals fight in the manner that suits their anatomy best. They have no notion of "form" and are limited only by the laws of physics in their reactive freedom. By attempting to structure your style in the classic kung fu sense after an animal "form" completely misses the point. The most efficient way for humans to fight would maximize the physical attributes of the human anatomy while having absolute reactive freedom. Regardless of skill level, often all you'll see in any serious fight is the characteristic wildness seen in a street brawl between fighters who have no formal training whatsoever. Our point has always been that accepting the fight as random and chaotic as opposed to methodical and beautiful is half the battle. Since the movements are going to resemble that of absolute wild men or animals, it is far more advantageous to start from a point of completely random and nonchoreographed movement as we do when Polishing the Sphere (a critical Guided Chaos drill) and then ingrain those movements with the 5 Principles of Combat: Looseness, Balance, Body Unity, Sensitivity and Freedom of Action.

It is detrimental and time consuming to start from any structured point of motion when we know that all serious fights have no form. This is the reason why you hear about Black Belts getting beat down by street fighters. It is because they are trying to change the nature of the fight and structure it the way they wish it to happen.

Limitations of Mixed Martial Arts

To the credit of most Mixed Martial Artists, they mix striking into their tool development and often have a very firm understanding of what we're talking about. To some degree, many of their best fighters have developed a level of sensitivity simply from training 5 hours a day and not starting from anywhere near as much structured motion as traditionalists.

Understand however, that in most sport fights there is no way to negate overwhelming speed and strength advantages because you are limited in what you can do, both morally and legally. However, in some fights during MMA competitions, you'll often see knock down, drag out fights where all structure goes completely out the window. I'll explain a typical scenario which I've observed several times.

The general theme would be a wild flurry of strikes from sparring range where someone gets caught with a punch, becomes dazed and gets knocked to the ground where they are then continually hit with punches. Ironically, the person in controlling position (not knocked down) rarely spends much time going for submissions; they'll usually strike until the fight is stopped by knock out or by the referee. The exceptions are when the guy turns his back to avoid the punches, in which case the striker goes for the rear naked choke.

My criticism is that they use a ton of yang energy at close range by either clinching or getting entangled in some fashion. Often, you'll see the random chaotic motion only occur in short bursts as the clinching usually grinds their movement to a screeching halt. From the ground, even when they strike, they still try to control the other fighter by using strength or positioning. Sometimes you'll see kicks attempted by the guy on the ground, but they are usually ineffective. Understand that the problem with this type of movement only applies to self defense, not sport fighting in the ring. I'll cover all of this in detail in Parts 3-5.

However, before I end this article I'd like to add a very important observation pertaining to Part 3. Something that holds true for all systems that structure their fights in the cooperative manner described, is that they never train at the same speed, thus ignoring the fact that in adrenaline-fed fights, all parties will move at maximum reflexive speed, which is approximately the same for all human beings.

To be continued...

Next: The Flaw of Training With Protective Equipment

Ken Freeman is a 1st degree Black Belt in Guided Chaos (Ki Chuan Do), the adaptive, free-form internal art created by former forensic homicide investigator John Perkins. He is the leader of the Chicago KCD Training Group. See http://attackproof.com/ More articles and DVDs can be found at http://www.attackproof.com/FREE-self-defense-NEWSLETTER.html

Consejos y sugerencias para la autodefensa anticipada

Se dice que la mejor cura siempre es la prevención. Lo mismo ocurre cuando se trata de manipulación y enfrentados a situaciones que amenazan la vida. Cuando el cuerpo se entra en un modo de lucha o de vuelo, a veces puede ser difícil de mantener la cabeza recta y evitar el pánico. Cuando se trata de defender a usted y a sus seres queridos, una de las mejores técnicas para utilizar es autodefensa anticipada. Podría ayudar a prevenir una situación difícil y podría ser la mejor forma de salir en caso de una confrontación.

¿Qué es autodefensa anticipada?

El principio de la autodefensa preventiva se basa en la prevención.En lugar de esperar una situación peligrosa a surgir, es mucho mejor intentar anticiparse a lo que podría suceder y prepararse para ella que encontrar soluciones cuando la situación ya está ocurriendo.De este modo, puede evitarse el peligro y desactivadas en una situación difícil.

Para aplicar la autodefensa anticipada, aquí hay algunas cosas para recordar:

Aprender a evaluar la situación

Un primer paso importante para la autodefensa anticipada es la evaluación de la situación y el medio ambiente. ¿Por qué está ocurriendo la situación? ¿Quiénes son involucrados? ¿Qué tipo de entorno se encuentran en?¿Es posible poner un amortiguador sobre la situación?Si no es así, ¿cuáles serían los resultados posibles - una confrontación, un argumento, una pelea física? ¿Es usted capaz de defender a sí mismo? ¿Hay armas de defensa personal que podría usar?¿Tienes una ruta de escape?

Evitar la confrontación tanto como sea posible

Autodefensa anticipada no es acerca de actuando fuera un contraataque inmediato.Es importante tratar de ver si se puede evitar una confrontación a través de contacto verbal o evasión física.Si no es así, sólo se deben utilizar técnicas de autodefensa física.

Encontrar una ruta de escape

Tener una ruta de escape puede ser su mejor apuesta para huir y salvar su vida. En caso de que una amenaza se intensifica o usted mismo descubrir una enorme desventaja, puede poner usted y quien es usted pueden proteger en mayor peligro si permanecer y luchar.Buscar una manera de escapar de la situación o por lo menos para reducir al mínimo la amenaza, como permitir a su compañero/s escapar mientras lucha fuera el atacante.

Una vez que el atacante ha sido neutralizado, una ruta de escape también serán útil en caso de que deba abandonar la escena de inmediato.

Neutralizar el ataque con eficiencia

La clave para la autodefensa anticipada es para uso de la fuerza con eficiencia.Utilizando demasiada fuerza podría escape de energía tan necesaria.Uso de la fuerza suficiente para neutralizar un enemigo, pero algunos de reserva en caso de nuevos ataques de otros oponentes venir.

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En una situación de autodefensa controlar la distancia y controle la lucha

Una cosa que se convierte en dolorosamente evidente para cualquier persona que ha venido estudiando artes de Guerrero del Ninja para cualquier longitud de tiempo es.. la imposibilidad de cizalladura de poder practicar todo lo que ha aprendido. Después incluso un corto tiempo en la formación, el número de habilidades, técnica de modelos conocidos como "kata" y éxitos de armas un punto donde, incluso si desea, usted podría no consistantly practicar todo en la misma manera que, digamos, un practicante de otras artes podría ser capaz de hacerlo.

Sin embargo, en el arte marcial del Ninjutsu, no tienes que. Para perspectiva del Ninja no limita a los bloques de creación del arte de la misma manera que se ve en otras formas convencionales o estilos. En su lugar, el aspirante de Ninja se centra no sobre técnica sino sobre principios y conceptos.Y, al concentrarse en ganar en el combate de un nivel superior o el punto de vista - como un zepelín supervisar un estadio de fútbol - es libre para el intercambio de técnicas, habilidades y armas libremente sin nunca cambiar el enfoque de la lección de sí mismo.

Centrándose en los conceptos y principios en lugar de técnica de paso a paso

Uno de esos conceptos o principio que forma parte del núcleo de la formación del estudiante Ninja desde el principio es el de distancia.También es conocido en japonés como ma-ai, distancia es un aspecto crucial dentro de cualquier encuentro determinado y varía en función de variables de lucha tales como:

tamaño o la altura de cada combatiente, especialmente cuando no hay ninguna diferencia significativa
tipo y la longitud o el alcance de cualquier tipo de armas involucrada
número de combatientes, incluidos múltiples-atacante solo defensor de los escenarios, y... las consideraciones medioambientales o limitaciones

En mis clases y seminarios, tenemos un dicho...

"Él o ella quien controla la distancia, controla la lucha".

Y, si bien esto puede parecer obvio, es a menudo lejos de ello.Lo que yo y mis instructores bajo me vea y otra vez, es tendancy del estudiante para aprender una distancia determinada y, a continuación, intenta en vano utilice como su valor predeterminado, independientemente de la situación que están trabajando. Difícil, si no imposible describir la addequately mediante la palabra escrita, aquí están algunos ejemplos para transmitir este concepto muy potente:

1) Un atacante empuñando cuchillo tendrá un momento difícil conseguir a mí si me quedo más lejos y fuera de su alcance, sin embargo...

2) Un asaltante armado con una pistola será más fácil dispararme a la misma distancia.En su lugar, él tendrá dificultad cada vez mayor cuanto más se acerque estoy a él y a su arma.

3) Si un chico intenta disparar a me con un fusil de alta potencia desde una azotea, quiero visitar a Mis amigos en otra ciudad, pero...

4) Si la misma lunático tiene el dispositivo de activación para un arma nuclear, a menos que él tenga una muerte desean, quiero estar de pie derecho junto a él!

Ahora bien, sé que esos dos últimos sonido un poco rebuscadas, pero ilustran el punto.Y es que...

.. .distance viene dictada, en gran parte, por su oponente o oponentes, o de sus tácticas, y participar de cualquier tipo de armas.

Conocer y comprender los conceptos de ma-ai, o la distancia adecuada, permiten que el Guerrero iluminado al paso de la angosta, limitando el "cuadro" que conoce sólo preestablecidas técnicas.Permite que él o ella libremente adaptarse a la situación-cambiar a medida que el cambio es necesario - y para que esté siempre en el lugar correcto con la defensa derecha superar al adversario y...

... ganar.

Jeffrey M. Miller es el fundador y principal instructor de internacional de conceptos de Guerrero.Un profesor senior en el arte de guerrero japonés de Ninjutsu, se especializa en la enseñanza de las antiguas formas de lecciones de autoprotección y el desarrollo de una manera que fácilmente se ha entendido y poner a utilizar por los estudiantes occidentales modernos y clientes corporativos.A través de su formación, sus estudiantes y clientes aprenden probada y comprobada en el tiempo diseñado para ayudarles a crear la vida que siempre han soñado con vida y de las habilidades necesarias para la protección de que la vida de todo lo que lo podrían amenazan.Para obtener más información acerca de ninjutsu y temas relacionados con las artes marciales, la autodefensa, la potenciación de la vida, visite su sitio Web en http://www.warrior-concepts-online.com para suscribirte a su boletín de noticias en línea, vaya a http://www.warrior-concepts-online.com/newsletter.html

Women's Self-Defense Classes - The Fallacy of Women's Self Defense

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There are many who say women learn self-defense better in an exclusively women-only environment. The so-called "experts" say it is less intimidating if women don't have to compete with the men, or, it is easier (more comfortable) to discuss subjects like rape without men present. So, the new trend in self-defense programs is "Women's Self Defense" classes.

I don't agree with this line of reasoning, because the overwhelming evidence suggests that this is the wrong approach. I can't tell you how many times I have heard, "I took a women's self-defense course once. But, I went home and tried some of the stuff on my husband (or boyfriend), and it didn't work!"

There is nothing more confidence-shattering than to spend the time learning all the techniques and starting to feel good about yourself, only to have the bubble burst the first time you try out your new-found skills. Women then begin to feel there is nothing they can do to protect themselves when they can't even make it work against someone who isn't really trying to hurt them.

The real shame is when someone is really attacked, and after repeated attempts, can't make their self-defense techniques work. At that point, they simply give up, and won't fight back no matter what. I can only imagine that someone in that situation would look back on the time or money spent for self-defense classes and feel that they had been victimized twice!

Why "Women's Self Defense" Programs Don't Work!

Most of the people who take my self-defense classes are women. Sometimes, I even have a class that is all women. However, that is by coincidence, not design. Women who sign up for my classes know that there may be both men and women in the class. Whether there are actually men in the class is not important, after all, I am instructing the class, so there is always at least one man in the class.

The point is, if a woman is so intimidated by men, that she will not even take a self-defense class with men, she will never survive an attack by a man. Why? Because "intimidation" is just another word for fear. Until she can prove to herself the techniques work on a man, she has done nothing to help her get over her fear of men.

If she is ever attacked, it will probably be by a man! If she hasn't gotten over her fear of men, she will immediately panic, no matter what she has learned. If she hasn't learned how to deal with the bigger, stronger, more aggressive male, she will not understand how the dynamics of the situation will change in the real world!

Women MUST practice self-defense techniques against a man! Otherwise, how will she know they work against a man? This is what we call "realistic scenario training" (more about this later). If she has only practiced self-defense techniques with other women, she gets a false sense of security that her techniques will work in the real world. But, an even bigger problem is that most of what is taught in these so-called "women's self-defense" classes wouldn't work anyway!

Poor Teaching Methods

Much of what is taught as "women's self-defense" is not only ineffectual, but insulting as well. Courses intended only for women assume they are weak, less capable of defending themselves, and therefore need different methods from men to counteract violence. Women have been told to "yell 'FIRE', carry a hat pin or umbrella to jab at him, do something vulgar to gross him out, like tell him you have VD." If any of that junk worked, we'd be teaching men to do the same thing.

The following sample of bad advice still shows up in high schools and women's self-defense courses:

"Confrontation always makes everything worse. Don't react-it might be an overreaction. Don't add to the violence by becoming violent yourself. Don't make him mad. Trying to escape risks escalating the problem."

These ideas are wishful thinking or blind optimism. Experience at real crime scenes teaches you something very different.

Imagine if the percentages of women and men raped were 50-50 instead of 98 percent women and 2 percent men. [Outside of prison, those are the true percentages.] Now imagine someone telling men, "Don't overreact to rape, guys. Go along with his demands so you won't be hurt." I think you can see there might be a double standard that is completely unfair to women.

Doing Nothing

Doing nothing against a violent attack is the biggest risk of all because it makes resistance and escape later far more difficult. Worse, statistics show it actually increases the likelihood that violence will escalate, especially when the crime is rape. The most profound example involving resisting (doing something) versus submitting (doing nothing) was a Department of Justice study of rape published in 1985:

Rapists do not normally pre-arm themselves with weapons. Only 23 percent of 1.6 million cases studied involved knives or guns. [The major exception to this are rapists who break into a residence; 96 percent grab a knife from the kitchen.]
Approximately 51 percent of women resisted in some form, ranging from screaming to fleeing, to fighting back; the remaining 49 percent did nothing.
When broken down between resistance or submission, there was only an increase of two percent in the injury level to the women who resisted.

Yes, there is always a risk involved in fighting back, but there is just as much risk in doing nothing. If you face a rapist and do nothing, he'll rape you. If you face an armed criminal forcing you into his car and do nothing, he'll kidnap you. The "do-nothing" group believes that in doing nothing, they risk nothing.

Doers, in contrast, have simple and direct reasons for taking action: "If I don't do something fast, it's going to get worse."

False Claims

Another problem is the false sense of security given by unsubstantiated claims. One direct-mail women's safety device provides an "instant and easy self-defense" video for women.... "Can you point your finger?... Can you raise your hand?... If your answer is yes, you can instantly escape anything from rape to severe attacks.... It's quick and easy." The product being mentioned here, pepper spray, almost never works this way in the real world.

One television commercial for a women's self-defense program promises "two-minute, guaranteed knockout using your feet. When your assailant tries to grab you, use the heel of your shoe to strike into his head over and over." Could you really learn to do this in two minutes? It takes years of training in karate or taekwondo to learn to effectively kick someone in the head, and even then, it's a risky move. It's just a marketing ploy to get your money.

If you buy a police radar detector that is guaranteed to work, but doesn't, the result is a speeding ticket. If you pay for "self-defense classes" or videos that don't deliver as promised, the result can be severe injury or even death. Relying on someone else's guarantee is only a false sense of security that will only have bad results!

Anti-crime gadgets, and martial arts self-defense programs marketed to women, are often too simplistic and come with unrealistic guarantees. The fact is, surviving crime requires far more mental toughness than physical abilities. Size, weight, conditioning, and upper-body strength don't make the difference. If they did, a lot of men would be in deep trouble. Crime survival takes tough-minded mental conditioning, the same for both men and women.

What Does Work

What works, as proved by the results of both police and military testing, is "realistic scenario training". Scenario training consists of learning techniques, rehearsing them in realistic scenarios, and then visualizing these actions in your mind. It is a method used in many fields, from sports to law enforcement, military to medicine.

Scenario training is a way of planning our responses. We do something similar every day in our regular lives. We plan what to say if the boss criticizes a report we've submitted, or how to appease our spouse if we've done something irritating. Often we actually rehearse the words we'll use, we do it constantly. It doesn't always get us what we want, but it gives us a better chance.

Face-to-face with violence, your first split-second problem is not what is he going to do, but, "what are you going to do?" Scenario training against violence answers that question at the right time... before it happens. You can make mistakes and learn from them before it becomes a life or death situation! Scenario training to survive violent crime draws on real-life crime cases, which allows us to analyze our own mistakes, as well as the mistakes of others, learn from them, and decide how we will respond differently.

Without realistic scenario training, people panic and freeze up; they have no way to cut through the overwhelming fear that boxes them in during a crisis. Everyone needs to train for the same scenarios, and everyone, men and women alike, need to train the same way: to develop the mental toughness needed to survive a real attack!

Summary

This is the bottom line that must be adopted by every woman, every women's self-defense teacher, and every parent of a daughter: If the how-to-survive-violence technique and advice is not acceptable to men, it's not acceptable to women.

Knowing how to handle yourself when confronted with violence is your only insurance against becoming a victim, or just another statistic in a police report. You have car insurance, home-owner's insurance, life insurance, health insurance...

What insurance do you have against being the victim of a violent crime? A long-term self-defense program offers the most comprehensive training, and therefore, the best opportunity to learn to handle almost any situation that may occur. However, if you don't have the time to commit to a long-term program, at least some form of weaponless self-defense training is better than none.

But women MUST practice techniques with MEN! The idea that women can learn to defend themselves against men, without training with men, is simply false.

Resources:

Strong, Sanford - Strong on Defense; Simon & Shuster, Inc.; 1996

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Uniform Crime Report; 2000

Mark Jordan is a 6th Degree Black Belt in Budoshin Jujitsu, Vice-president of the American Ju-Jitsu Association, and a Certified Self-Defense Instructor with the International Association of Close Combat Professionals. You may find out how to contact him for training, or read more of his articles by visiting his website:
AllJujitsu.com.

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Utilizando el Hanbo para la autodefensa práctica - artes marciales armas - la Hanbo

¿Qué es la hanbo en su vida?

Se trata de una pregunta sencilla que el usuario de un arma de artes marciales debe preguntar acerca de cualquier arma que recogen a entrenar con. ¿Cómo esta habilidad ayuda les en su vida? Para algunas armas, contamos con una curiosidad y un interés basándose en el arma en sí.Sin embargo, también puede haber una conexión más profunda - esta arma puede ser práctica para defensa propia real.

El hanbo, un palo de tres pies que he hablado de la historia de uno de mis otros artículos, es un buen ejemplo. En los campos de batalla del Japón feudal, fue un arma incidental, algo utilizado en una pizca.Para nosotros hoy en día, es probablemente una de las armas más importantes que podemos usar!¿Qué elementos que nos rodean son similares a palo y unos de tres pies de largo?

Un paraguas

Una caña o un bastón

Un raspador de hielo manejadas por mucho tiempo en el coche

Un rasero

Un palo en el bosque

Un pedazo de rebar

Un tubo de póster

Una espada, o una espada en una bolsa (para los artistas marciales)

Muchas otras cosas, la lista es interminable sobre y.

Cada uno de los elementos anteriores se puede utilizar en muchos, si no todos de la misma forma como un hanbo.Algunos incluso podrían tener mas usos, como el raspador de hielo o el rasero, ambos de los cuales tienen otras cosas que se adjunta al final del palo que podría utilizarse también para someter a un atacante. Mirar alrededor de su casa, su lugar de trabajo, las que compra en las tiendas. Si usted fueron asaltados justo ahora, habría mucho de hanbo-como objetos que le rodean. Intente esto con cualquier arma que estudiar - mira alrededor y encontrar cosas que son como arma. ¿Cómo son los mismos? ¿Cómo son diferentes?¿Qué se puede hacer con uno que usted can ' t con la otra?

La hanbo representa a una forma muy simple y omnipresente para nosotros, el objeto de similares a palo corto.Este tipo de cosas son todo.Incluso un acumulados periódico o una revista puede utilizarse de forma similar para aplicar una retracción o una huelga de jabbing.Mi sugerencia - try fuera el hanbo hoy.Obtener uno y empezar a trabajar con él, obtener una sensación y mantiene la vista en el mundo exterior-la-formación-piso para objetos de 'hanbo'.

James A. Kelley, fundador de [http://www.ningutrading.com] ha estudiado las artes marciales de Japón durante más de diez años.Su pasión por las artes marciales es igualada sólo por su pasión por la historia de Japón.Un veterano viajero, James ha vivido en ocho países y ha viajado a muchos más.Ha visitado lugares históricos en Japón y China en su investigación y formación y ha capacitado a más de diez diferentes artes marciales.Posee un rango de cinturón negro y trenes diarios.En su tiempo libre, artes marciales de él handmakes suministros para caballos graves, disponible en su sitio Web [http://www.ningutrading.com].