Our courses are compared to learning how to drive: you learn in plain English how to use your body and then how to drive in a street full of crazy drivers that have two arms and two legs.
Teaching the Student to Think for Themselves
First we cover all the possibilities; and then by prioritizing what is most efficient, students learn what takes the least amount of time and therefore would become more of immediate danger to respond to.
Through concentrated learning of situational awareness, the human body’s pressure points, myofascial functions, and efficiency as a driving concept, students can essentially extrapolate in real time. Therefore, there is no sense of having people kick and punch each other for hours, on a weekly basis, and hope their opponent follows the formula they were taught on the mat.
For that reason I believe sport-fighting techniques are not a comprehensive form of self-defense in the truest sense. If the students attempt their techniques from the mat, and it does not work, it is truly the teacher’s fault. If the instructor does not teach conceptually, to allow for independent thinking when the need arises, than they are not really offering anything special to teach rather than motivate you to exercise.
Teaching only mimicry does not serve the student in a time of need. For this reason I truly believe that if one does not know how to build a fighting machine with all its components and program it with tactical winning strategies, then one is not a good instructor.
