Jim The Security Guard

Posted by: vvers, 1:26 AM GMT en Febrero 04, 2009

The weather's been really tame for Southern Californians this time of year. I'm thankful to have the temperature be so kind to us, especially when I'm working outdoors.

I'd like to talk about another martial arts tactic useful for fighters, armed security guards and agents is the back hand slap. Security guard companies and various agencies often teach this move to their people. The back hand slap is best employed to a potential threat stood slightly to your to flank. The back slap works best from either; the hand on the chin position or from the hands together, in front of the chest position. The target area for this strike is the facial area.

To slap just strike straight out to the target, from where ever the striking hand is, giving off no telegraphic intention. Just move in the direction of the strike and whip your hips in a split second before the strike lands. This will ensure that your full body weight accompanies the same for maximum effect.

The back slap can also be followed immediately by the forehand slap in combination for maximum effect. Performed in this way the back slap is thrown first as previously described; but is now immediately followed by the fore hand slap as one beat. In other words if you think of the back hand as one beat and the forehand as a second beat then it would look like this; one…two…instead of that the combination is thrown as one, two using an almost simultaneous action.

In this way the second strike gathers impact power from the momentum created by the first shot, for twice the effect. Again we are looking at the facial area as a target, this will create shock impact but with leave the recipient
relatively unharmed other than perhaps a temporary altered state of consciousness and slightly red faced.

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The Wide World of Martial Arts

Posted by: vvers, 4:07 AM GMT en Enero 31, 2009

The weather's been really cold here lately and sometimes I feel it in my bones. After years of martial arts, my bones will feel a certain way when the weather gets like this. The world is so rich in having so many different martial arts traditions. The Japanese and Chinese are not the only ones to have martial arts. The French have Savat, also called chausson. In Brazil there is an art called Capoeira. Wrestling is common from all over the world and Boxing (as seen ...

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Hi, My name's Jim and I'm a security guard. I'm usually posted in outdoor areas so the weather is somehting I'm definitely interested in.

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