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Discussion in 'Self Defence' started by Alansmurf, Feb 18, 2012.

  1. Alansmurf

    Alansmurf Aspire to Inspire before you Expire Supporter

    JT ran an excellent DART session today at his venue in High Wycombe

    Great day , lots of bruises and exchange of ideas ..

    Thanks John

    Smurf
     

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  2. Alansmurf

    Alansmurf Aspire to Inspire before you Expire Supporter

    and more
     

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  3. Southpaw535

    Southpaw535 Well-Known Member Moderator Supporter

    Is it the hulk?

    Massive thanks to John as well. Awesome day. If you live in the uk and haven't trained with him yet then you need to sort yoursleves out.
     
  4. Mitch

    Mitch Lord Mitch of MAP Admin

    Either that's armour or he's done a lot of squats :D

    Mitch
     
  5. Alansmurf

    Alansmurf Aspire to Inspire before you Expire Supporter

    A little light sparring.......
     

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  6. Alansmurf

    Alansmurf Aspire to Inspire before you Expire Supporter

    Wait till you see the footage ... Gary lifted me clean off the floor !!
     
  7. Gary

    Gary Vs The Irresistible Farce Supporter

    And paid the price... :D
     
  8. Alansmurf

    Alansmurf Aspire to Inspire before you Expire Supporter

    Sorry buddy .

    Just happened ...no thought process involved ..



    Smurf;);)
     
  9. bassai

    bassai onwards and upwards ! Moderator Supporter

    QFT , it really is a lot of fun.
     
  10. Simon

    Simon Administrator Admin Supporter MAP 2017 Koyo Award

    Although I was an observer in this session rather than a participant, I can still say that it was an excellent day.

    In addition to the training it was nice to meet some more MAPpers.

    JWT is looking to run regular sessions, so drop him a PM or e-mail for details of upcomong events.

    I took some picture which I'll try and post tomorrow. Video footage will follow once jwt has edited it.
     
  11. Simon

    Simon Administrator Admin Supporter MAP 2017 Koyo Award

    Some group chaos.

    This scenario replecated being seated on a train.

    Group chaos.jpg
     
  12. Gripfighter

    Gripfighter Sub Seeker

    who ran a what now ?
     
  13. Mitch

    Mitch Lord Mitch of MAP Admin

    JWT's self defence, armoured assailant training sessions. Look around MAP and you'll see a number of threads about them going back over a number of years including many videos and descriptions from many participants.

    Mitch
     
  14. Fish Of Doom

    Fish Of Doom Will : Mind : Motion Supporter

    ...frodo?
     
  15. Frodocious

    Frodocious She who MUST be obeyed! Moderator Supporter

    SHHHHH! Don't ruin things for people...! ;) :) :evil:
     
  16. slipthejab

    slipthejab Hark, a vagrant! Supporter

    Looks like great fun! I'm envious you guys are close enough to each other to get this type of thing organized. :D
     
  17. Simon

    Simon Administrator Admin Supporter MAP 2017 Koyo Award

    We are lucky. Several guys all within a couple of hours car drive from jwt.

    I would say that if anyone is interested in some self defence, but worried that they have only just started martial arts, they should definately come along to one of these events.

    Guys of all different ages, abilities, levels of fitness and so on, but not a hint of egotism in the place.
    You take some hits (in armour and headguards), you give some hits, then watch the video analysis together and discuss the good and bad points.

    For me these sessions are as much (if not more) about awareness and understanding of aggression, as the actual physical skills.
     
  18. Gary

    Gary Vs The Irresistible Farce Supporter

    I found the whole session really valuable, Simon is spot on about the mix of people and the lack of egotism, plus the atmosphere was always friendly.

    The hardest part of the day for me was playing the role of aggressor as you can probably infer from the inane grin on my face in the first post I'm not an aggressive person naturally so it always felt very forced doing that.

    I really enjoyed the legal perspective of self defence too. One of the scenarios involved a preemptive strike, to the guy making the strike he felt justified in his decision but to a lot of us it looked like he had just assaulted him, and on the footage it looked just as bad. It really was a valuable lesson for all of us about the application of preemptive action.
     
  19. CosmicFish

    CosmicFish Aleprechaunist

    It was great fun. Many thanks to JWT for organising it. I already have some friends who are expressing an interest in future sessions.

    One of the most interesting lessons I took away from it is that knives are almost invisible to me in the heat of the moment. And on a less serious note, my strongest martial arts skill seems to be chucking people on the floor and sitting on them.
     
  20. bassai

    bassai onwards and upwards ! Moderator Supporter

    Completely agree with that , it mirrors my experience as well.

    I'm so glad it isn't just me !
     

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