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Post by AceRimmer on Apr 4, 2006 15:04:15 GMT
Does anyone train soft skills in their dojo? Is it ever talked about? Do you know anything about them.
I think it is very important to cover these things and generally not enough time is spent on them.
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Post by nkudahc on Apr 4, 2006 17:10:53 GMT
what are soft skills?
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Post by RigsVille on Apr 5, 2006 7:09:37 GMT
Do you mean internal, soft type training like tai chi?
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Post by AceRimmer on Apr 5, 2006 7:51:30 GMT
Sorry, should have explained more.
Soft skills, including awareness, threat evaluation, fence or guard etc etc
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Post by AngelaG on Apr 5, 2006 9:10:26 GMT
Sorry, should have explained more. Soft skills, including awareness, threat evaluation, fence or guard etc etc Yeah, sometimes we do stuff like this. Some of them get it, others look at you like your an alien. |
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Post by pasmith on Apr 5, 2006 9:15:44 GMT
I've only heard the term soft skills used by the systema guys. Seems to refer to the kind of half speed, freestyle drilling they do.
We don't do that kind of stuff. Which is a shame as I'm bang into the fence, pre-emptive striking, awareness and all that.
Please explain more.
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Post by AceRimmer on Apr 5, 2006 10:04:21 GMT
Well most of the stuff I teach in this regard is learnt from Geoff Thompson and Peter Consterdines books. Jamie O'Keefe also has an excellent book on self protection entitled 'Dogs don't know kung -fu'.
I teach basic self protection classes on occasion (and more often, soon) which spend more than half the time talking about 'soft skills'. I stole the term from a lot of the reality instructors out there today - Mo Teague, Jamie Clubb, Mick Coup etc etc.
The most important skill is awareness as your fight training will be as much good as a chocolate teapot without it (although I always wondered at that expression as at least you can eat a chocolate teapot - YUM). The best way to describe awareness is by using the colour code system as invented by (why is it you can't remember a name when you need one?).
Stage White - unaware
Stage Yellow - alert
Stage Orange - possible situation
Stage red - DO SOMETHING! Fight of flight.
What you need to do is get ways for people to be in stage yellow rather than stage white.
Then there is posturing, aggression training, fencing (or guard), car safety tactics, pre emption, target selection, etc etc etc
The physical skills should be less than 5% of your self defence, a last resort.
If all you have is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail!
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Post by AngelaG on Apr 5, 2006 10:27:11 GMT
Yeah, we do all that stuff too. Although I tend to descibe the colour system a little differently. (White, green, orange, red - easy to remember as it's like traffic lights).
Good stuff!
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Post by AceRimmer on Apr 5, 2006 11:48:30 GMT
That's good, not many people even talk about it.
I'll remember the blokes name who invented it soon, hang on.......
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Post by AngelaG on Apr 5, 2006 11:55:24 GMT
www.dolfzine.com/page678.htmIt accredits it to Col. Jeff Cooper, and some nice explanations. Also uses the same colour system as you. (halfway down)
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Post by nkudahc on Apr 5, 2006 12:58:52 GMT
mmmm chocolate teapot....
what is fence?
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Post by AngelaG on Apr 5, 2006 13:09:37 GMT
The fence is your guard, and can help you manipulate a situation in your favour (as well as protecting you).
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Post by nkudahc on Apr 5, 2006 13:20:33 GMT
thats interesting, we have never talked about that aspect of it. how can the fence help you manipulate the situation in your favor?
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Post by andym on Apr 5, 2006 13:49:41 GMT
The fence would be a relaxed normal stance, just with your hands open in a 'Lets just calm down' fashion (yet still being prepared for an attack) rather than a full on Zenkutsu Dachi with clenched fists.
The fence can help calm a situation down, if you're not seen to be coming accross aggressive you're more likely to walk away from a bad situation.
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Post by nkudahc on Apr 5, 2006 14:08:36 GMT
The fence would be a relaxed normal stance, just with your hands open in a 'Lets just calm down' fashion (yet still being prepared for an attack) rather than a full on Zenkutsu Dachi with clenched fists. The fence can help calm a situation down, if you're not seen to be coming accross aggressive you're more likely to walk away from a bad situation. oh...i see what you're saying now  |
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