Stand - Up skills for self defense

My classes are geared towards self defense. I teach a lot of stand up arts: Jeet Kune Do, Kickboxing, Kali, Dirty Boxing and Silat. There is much more to having a good stand-up game than just throwing punches and kicks. We spend quite a lot of time "denying going to the the ground".

I will break down material I teach in class. Note that I use JKD concepts while teaching each range. Distance, timing, closer weapon nearest target, simplicity ...etc




Strikes:
Single strikes SDA, SAA
Combinations ABC
Progressive Indirect Attacks PIA
Trapping HIA
Drawing them in ABD
Focus Gloves for speed
Muay Thai Pad for power
Heavy bag for strength
Striking to deny take downs
Striking to enter into a take down

Hand Fighting:
Controlling the hands and arms
Arm drags
Entries into grappling
Sensitivity to grappling
Set ups for arm locks and wrenches
Entering to the take downs, trips and throws
Denying take downs, trips and throws

Clinch Grappling:
Head control for take downs
Body control for take downs
Defending against head control to stay standing
Defending against body control to stay standing
Head lock counters
Chokes defenses

Clinch Striking:
Body shots
Groin shots
Progressive Striking
Low line kicking
Striking to grappling
Grappling to striking

Full Range Fighting:
Out of range to
Kicking range to
Hand range to
Close range to
Clinch range and back out again.

Using Sport Based Training Methods, We train against a resisting opponent while keeping a self defense mindset. We train hard but all the while keeping our partners safe.

I love BJJ, I love CSW, I love Japanese Jujitsu. I enjoy the grappling arts but I also know its not a good idea to wrestle on concrete against an opponent who might out weigh me by 100 pounds. Therefore, I spend most of my time trying to do all I can NOT TO GO TO THE GROUND.

We use the training methods of BJJ, wrestling and CSW which allow us to go 100% in the clinch range because of the TAP.  For pure striking... so we ease off to keep our partner safe, we wear helmets for extra protection, shin guards , groin cup and a mouth piece but for the clinch game and hand fighting we get intense and we TAP to stop/restart.

A good stand-up game is complex and intense. Understanding striking, kicking, hand fighting, clinch game,  counters to shoot ins and counters to  take downs. Moving in and out of range will go a long way to keeping you on your feet and striking your way out of trouble so you can run away and live to see another day.