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Are there any good defenses/offenses for dealing with opponents who are too large? Say 6’3 200lbs and up, me being only 5’11 and 140.
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Keep doing what you’re doing. Hit hard, hit fast, be aggressive. Neck, throat, face, nuts. (mod 1 and 2).
Stay away from the body. Big SOB’s can take a lot of punishment in the bread basket.
If you get on the ground (Module 3). You won’t be able to move, get him off of you (find his face or nuts and dig in.)
Also if worse comes to worse you can give him a NASTY surprise (module 9 and Module 11).
Damian
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Thanks, I was wodnering…is there a form I could take using the edge of hand blows similiar to the way a boxer takes a stance? If an assailant were to square up with me in a boxers sense, could I square up using the edge of hand blows too? I saw a video on it and it looked very effective. How would you use the edge of hand combos in a squared-up-stance?
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In a street fight, don’t take a stance. You just fight. If some guy makes the mistake of “putting up his dukes” you:
1. Lower his guard. Tell him you don’t want to fight as you close the distance on him.
2. Spit. Hocking a loogie in someones face was a tactic of one of my old buddies. Then attack.
3. Kick him, repeatedly. Use the front kick from module one and kick him and take ground. Just attack him from the waist down and blast away- it doesn’t matter what you hit or if you hit. As long as it puts him on his heels.
4. Smash his hands into his own face. In module 2 we go over putting your hands up in a “surrender” type of position and then using repeated heel of hand strikes to smash into his arms, fists, head and face.
As always take ground, don’t square off- don’t dance.
5. Use a foreign object. Module 8. If you have time and access use it.The point is its a street fight, not a boxing match. And if you have time to put your hands up and show you’re intentions then you might as well just start hitting and win the fight instead of showing the world you’re ready to fight and then get your ass handed to you.
By ANY means FAIR or FOUL as the old timers used to say.
Don’t let them dictate the fight, don’t waste your time with anything than mass destruction. If you are playing slap tag with you’re buddies in the yard then DON’T use the SDTS. Its not for that.
Damian
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Here’s what I was talking about
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This is Module 1 stuff.
First of all the kid throwing the punches doesn’t look like he could even box a pair of shoes. He’s not a boxer.
That being said the instructor in the film makes two very important points that get lost in the explanation:
1. Keep your chin down. This is a universal fighting rule.
2. Always move forward. This is the most important point. when you drive forward aggressively you will have only a small window of vulnerability. That being the case, it doesn’t matter what he does.This is all module 1 stuff. With the edge of hand it doesn’t matter if his hands are up or down. You just HACK.
I’ve trained that stance and the cross stance. which brings me to my original point.
The STANCE is really just a cover to protect your face and throat. The arm across the mid section protects the body, but if you are moving forward NO ONE is going to generate enough power to take you out.
I’ve trained that stance and the cross stance. The are not as effective as keeping your chin tucked and your elbow up when your hacking with Edge of hands (Module 1).
In module 2 you’ll see the elbow spike and the double forearm shiver- both provide the same cover but are designed to initiate an attack.
Training in a STANCE teaches you to wait. Waiting gets you killed.
OK here’s what to do.
Guy gets in boxing stance. You snap up your horizontal edge of hand, tuck your chin and run him over….same thing. It just didn’t take 5 minutes to explain it.
Damian
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one of my favorite offenses is the vertical lead hand/dropstep/two punch-combo demonstrated by Carl in his boxing series. Could that offense be used in a real fight too? I don’t see why it wouldn’t! I tried to extensively on bob and definately made his head rattle! There’s an old-school part of me that would still use the fist, but only in the old-school sense. Is there room for the fist in the SDTS besides the right cross? Also after executing the lead hand dropstep, I noticed other blows can be done to, tigerclaw/chinjab etc.
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YES!! The fist is fine (wait until module 6!). I love to punch. It just takes longer to be conditioned and developed.
You can take the edge of hand and heel of hand and with most people they can use it instantly without any injury. (Not pain- Injury, there;s a huge difference!)
We punch because it’s in our culture. Unfortunately the fighters who punch also have hand wraps and gloves.
If you are not REALLY conditioning your fist. Training dummy is a great start but start hitting the Brick.
In module 6 we go through ALL OF THAT. It get’s a little crazy!
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Let pain be your guide. Just like in the manual and the module. Start with about 25 rep sets for each hand.
Do the fore knuckles, the edge of hand, the heel of hand and the web of hand (hand yoke in module 2).
Bruising stop and heal.
Bleeding stop and heal.Try to do this when you are not pumped with adrenaline like watching TV. IT depends what you’re watching but if you are jacked up, you’re break something.
Let pain be your guide.
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I saw the free trial, sounds too good to be true! You mean I can order the 30 day test drive, pay $9 bucks for shipping, test out the whole thing, and order it if I wish? If I did order the whole system, would all modules come right at the same time or would one be sent to me each month individually?
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I thought you couldn’t have been enrolled in the system because of the questions you were asking.
First. No way you get the whole system for FREE. That would be stupid on my part, I can’t have this stuff floating around. Believe or not, there are people who would actually try to rip me off.
You get module 1 for 30 days. After 30 days you will be charged $97 and your next module goes out. If you skip the test drive, it’s only $87 per module. 13 manuals, 25 DVDs plus the forum.
I will tell you this, there is more in module 1 than anything out there. The total program is about 42 hours of instruction AND training and drills.
But I’ll tell you now, if you or anybody does stupid shit with this material you will be booted from the program.
So seriously, it’s time to grow a pair and get in the program, go here and join the men’s club: https://www.theselfdefenseco.com/customer_service.asp
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Good stuff, the whole program if all ordered at once, skipping the testdrive is $997? Well, I’d hope every second of material in there is worth every penny! BTW, what ever happend to Captain Crunch Chris Pizzo, I haven’t rececived a newsletter from him in months. Is that guy a douchebag? I received some of his material, it seemed legit seeing how he was trained by you. What;s his deal.
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Yes you got it.
Listen, if you think it can’t help you, I’ll take it back. Why? Because the maniacs and ass kickers who train in the system would have spent 4 times that amount. This is like enrolling in butt-kickers university!Hell I put module 1 up against everything out there. Module 1 would have answered all of your questions.
That being said, I can’t comment too much on my former student Capt Crunch (yes, to the best of my knowledge he came to me as a green belt in judo under Ogasiwara) I started him as a white belt and he was with me for a few years and we didn’t even get to half the stuff that’s on the SDTS- so imagine. maybe you could be General X or something like that.
Damian
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what makes the axe hand so effective, though it being narrow and padded, like you said, it’s in our culture to use the fist and my two punch combo is one of my favs, and has certainly gotton better! Ive noticed some reinforcement on both EOH’s but the surface hasn;t necessarily becomed hardened, just more resistant, I can hit harder and longer..which is good.
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Here’s something good
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With all of your experience and skill Damian, is there some things you personally know but haven’t put in the SDTS. Like some real dirty tricks and shit. I read you also did bodyguard work, sounds badass. How did you become so proficient in Hand-to-Hand combat? I’ve seen you explode on bob in videos on the tube, I was like holy shit. I had to rewind a couple times cause I missed some shit! How long would it take me to be that damn good?
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As they say, flattery will get you everywhere.
To tell the truth, I put it all in the SDTS. Seriously. I held nothing back. I don’t know how to do it any other way.
In the SDTS you go through the training step by step exactly how we train it. So you will hit like a freight train. I go from 179 to 195 and I’mm all of 5’8″. I’m not a big guy, but with this stuff, it never stopped me.
I’m not going to come out with a NEW AND IMPROVED bullshit. This is it, the most lethal self defense system in the world, period.
One shot knock outs, brass knuckles, black jacks, neck dislocations, its all there.
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Nice. So if I completed the system, would I be just as good as you! Damn, that’d be something I’d have to see to believe, Im just 20 and I could have in a couple months what most people never learn in 10 years. BTW, what;s a double leg takedown? Is that a wrestling move, I need to brush up on the ground work, ive got all the hand to hand down…well most probably!
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Ha, shit, I don’t know if I could be better than you. You’ve been doing this way before I was even born, you trained with Carl and you’re 20 years older than I! I read you also instruct MMA too. That’s cool. Though I don’t train MMA and would get my ass handed to me in the ring…only if I played by their rules though!!! Would you recommend MMA for combat conditioning? It’s training is brutal and explosive as hell. I watch just about every night on Spike TV, last night they had 100 Ultimate Knockouts, badass stuff. But I wouldn’t mind using MMA as conditioning. It wouldn’t hurt to push myself beyond my limits! BTW If I could be better than you, as you stated, and you said that an SDTS assailant would wreck an MMA guy, does that mean I could wreck a man like Chuck Liddell or Anderson Silva! Just a thought on that.
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If your priority is self defense you can supplement with MMA, wrestling or Judo.
Let me ask you, what if Chuck Liddell or Anderson Silva was about to rape your wife or come into your house?
I don’t know about you, but I’m not laying down for anybody and I expect everyone in the SDTS to feel the same way. I don’t care if your king freakin kong, you step to me you better pack a lunch.
In regards to the better than me comment. Any instructor or coach worth a damn HOPES the people he teaches get better than him or her.
You should learn from my mistakes and save a lot of time, energy, money, blood sweat and tears. It took me decades to get the SDTS information together and decades more of the men before me.
Don’t fall for the martial arts BS that the instructor will always be the best in the room. If you train and your honest about it, it’s up to you to take it further and faster.
That might not happen in 12 months, BUT what you learn in 12 months compared to what I learned in 12 months back in the day will be light years ahead.
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Oh I’ve learned from my mistakes, when I was younger I was in&out of Tae Kwon Do, luckily, I only made yellow belt cause even that shit wasn’t cheap! When I was about 16 I got fed up with all that kung fu shit, did some research and my first find was Captain Crunch! and his ABC system, then it just escalated and here I am!
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Then again, even if you are using the strikes used in the SDTS, defending yourself by “boxing it out” with a guy bent on destroying you does’nt really work does it?
What I mean hear is using a boxing mentallity; moving around like Ali and such. Boxing puts you in a give-and-take mentallity. Counter to what SDTS teaches.
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Moving around like Ali during the course of the fight only works for Bruce Lee in the movies.
Once you attack you CAN’T give him room to breathe. It’s go or no go, that’s it.
It’s been proven in combat with battalions, platoons, companies and individuals.
Rapid dominance: Could be also referred to as the “Expanding Torrent” (Liddell Hart), Tukhachevsky’s and the post 1960 Soviet theorists of ‘Deep Battle’, or even the ‘OODA Loop’ of contemporary US usage. Essentially, the ideas are the same. These include substituting speed, maneuver, and the shock of sudden violence throughout the entire depth of an enemy’s defense to create conditions of psychological shock in the minds of their troops and commanders. The idea is to beat them mentally, as a prelude to their destruction or surrender. Deep penetrations by raiding formations – such as a Soviet Operational Maneuver Group (OMG) or a battalion of air cavalry – coupled with disruptive techniques and air superiority wrest the initiative away from the enemy, keep them off balance and unable to react faster than one can exploit, and prevent them from establishing effective defenses.
Once you attack, you continue to attack. Dancing around wastes energy and more importantly TIME! While you’re prancing around your target has secured a weapon, be it concealed or improvised. He’s also a lot SMARTER after you have already demonstrated you have some type of training.
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