Aloha Everyone,
As part of our system, Sijo and the Co-Founders included a set of Knife and Club defenses....because that's what they were dealing with at that time. And those defenses remain a super valuable set of techniques for us today. I haven't had to perform any weapon defenses lately, thank God. But I am confident, through our training, that I would have a better than even chance of surviving a Knife or Club attack.
For the last three or four years we have been training one of the many Gun Defense techniques out there. I'm not writting this to pump up the set of Gun Defense techniques we use. It probably doesn't matter which set we practice, as long as we train those techniques as least as often as the other weapon defenses.
What I'm pretty excited about is last night's class. I asked a couple of students to bring air soft pistols, and I brought some shooting glasses. Last night's objective was to see if we could get off center and parry without getting shot. From a cold move, no distraction, we were getting hit. But with a distraction we were all getting off center without taking a hit. We tried several positions, both left and right handed gunman, front, back, pointed at the head, chest, all kine way. The distraction was the key, as well as knowing how to take advantage of the distraction.
Now we can go back to training the whole technique with confidence.
Mahalo for your time.
Greg
