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00:05Hello, my name is Larry Tatum and welcome to my self-defense sparring tape.
00:09Now in this tape, we're going to learn what is sparring and self-defense.
00:13When they're combined together, they produce a different type of technique,
00:17a different type of psychology in the fight.
00:20Now sparring, you might say, is a premeditated form of action,
00:24whereas self-defense techniques are reactionary.
00:27But when we put them both together, we get a unique blend of self-defense in the street.
00:33Now with the help of Sebastian, I'll show you what I'm talking about.
00:37Now let's take a situation where Sebastian has grabbed me on my shoulder,
00:40just for the sake of a technique, on the street.
00:43I check his hand, because I don't want it flying into my face.
00:46I check his arm, I elbow, I hammer to the groin, and I come back up with an elbow, and
00:52so forth.
00:52Now, as I do this hard, fast, strong, Sebastian is knocked back, probably off his feet.
00:58He's knocked down.
01:01And then I go to turn to run, the door is locked, or there's no place for me to run,
01:05too.
01:06Suddenly I turn around and I confront it now with the same guy.
01:08What do I say? Grab my other shoulder?
01:10Well, obviously we can't do that.
01:12And as I taught you in one of the previous tapes,
01:14this is the point now where you're going to have to spar with this guy.
01:18If you can't talk him out of continuing to attack you,
01:21you're going to have to match him.
01:23And what I mean by match him is fist for fist, target for target,
01:27weight for weight, speed for speed.
01:29All this comes into play.
01:31And now you're going to have, every action from this point on is going to be premeditative,
01:35not only on your part, but on his part.
01:38But now we don't want to throw away our self-defense knowledge at this point
01:41and say, well, I hope I practice my sparring.
01:45And sparring, like I said, is no more than a premeditated form of action.
01:50And that is, if we go back to the other tapes, we learn that we have out of range control.
01:55I can't really touch him.
01:57We have width in range control.
01:59We have control penetration.
02:01That means when we pass this point here, we're kicking, punching, striking, whatever.
02:06And then we found that once we get inside, we have control,
02:09or what's been called control manipulation.
02:11All right?
02:12And as I said before, they're all forms of control manipulation.
02:15But the point is now, Sebastian's been knocked down with one of my self-defense techniques.
02:20It didn't do the job because he's back up.
02:22Or it did, but I didn't have a place to go to.
02:25So now, Sebastian and I are squared off.
02:28Back up just a little bit.
02:30And being squared off now, I don't really know how good of a fighter he is.
02:33I do know one thing from that first technique when he grabbed me.
02:37I know he's not very smart because to go up and lay your hand on somebody's shoulder
02:40when you don't know him can get you in a lot of trouble.
02:42So I know that maybe he does not have enough experience.
02:45But yet he may be tough enough.
02:47And it's quite obvious he is because he's back on his feet.
02:50And he wants to continue this.
02:53All right.
02:53Let's take a technique in sparring.
02:55Now, we've learned before that when we move, we want to control the height, width, and depth.
03:00That's not new to us because in the previous tapes, we've learned that from there.
03:05But if I decided to shuffle in, grab his lead arm, and as I grab, I shuffle,
03:10pull his arm down, and punch with a left vertical punch.
03:14Well, let's say Sebastian takes the punch, manages to grab my wrist.
03:19Do I try to pull out, restart again, try a new technique?
03:23No, not in Kimpo.
03:25What we do, if he takes the first shot and he grabs my wrist, I move from that action.
03:31And my self-defense techniques teach me, well, I can break the elbow from that point.
03:36And if you look at it again, it's no more than when it ends and something comes in,
03:42we just begin a new motion from that point of origin.
03:45And if you look at what I'm doing, I'm using a stance change to get in or a foot maneuver
03:50to snap his elbow.
03:51Also, my options are open to me.
03:53You look at my thumb, it can go and gouge the eye right up here with my right hand.
03:57If Sebastian is still trying to tussle somewhat, I can buckle his leg, as we've learned.
04:03At this point, I can cross out, make my head up, kick to the groin, or do whatever I want
04:09to do.
04:10But basically, what happened was, it started from what is considered a sparring situation.
04:15That's where we trade blows.
04:17If I punch and grab, he may punch and grab.
04:20Go ahead, Sebastian.
04:21Back and forth.
04:23Keep going, all right?
04:24So that we're blocking, we're both trying to get in and find a target to fight on each other.
04:29But in street sparring, we want to condition you away from that idea.
04:35I want you to limit the sparring as much as possible.
04:37And that's why knowledge of your self-defense techniques is very important.
04:41Because they teach you, like I said, that once something goes wrong, that you keep moving from that point.
04:50And you understand that your self-defense techniques taught you many weapons that are open to you,
04:55many targets, lower weapons at all levels, height, width, and so forth.
05:03And you're not just trading blows to the face, to the stomach, and so forth.
05:08But you're beginning to look at him as one big target.
05:12And there isn't a place where I would be stomping the foot or whatever, or breaking the elbow while I
05:18stomped the foot.
05:19But you've learned this in some of the previous tapes.
05:21Now, minimizing the sparring, I know I make it sound a little easier than it really is.
05:26Because that guy may have as quick reactions as you do.
05:29And as I shuffle into grab, he may shuffle out of range.
05:32And suddenly, well, I can't reach him.
05:35Okay?
05:35So what do I do?
05:37Now, if I know that this guy, well, I found out that he does shuffle out.
05:41He has some knowledge of the martial art I can't quite reach.
05:44And if I shuffle again, he goes back.
05:46Well, now I'm starting to find a couple of things out about Sebastian.
05:49He loves to retreat in a straight line.
05:52All right.
05:53Now, the thing of it is, there are a number of ways to open Sebastian up.
05:57And one way to open your opponent up is to condition him.
06:00Make him think that you are going to do the same thing over and over.
06:04Make him think that you, too, are limited in your knowledge.
06:08Such as, if I drag up to do a diagonal roundhouse kick to Sebastian, and he blocks it, that's fine.
06:18Now I know something about Sebastian.
06:19I know that he likes to use his backhand to block with.
06:22He didn't drop his front hand.
06:23Because had he dropped his front hand, I would have known immediately that he's going to leave his face open.
06:29All right.
06:29But the thing of it is, we found out he's been educated to use the backhand.
06:33Well, that's fine.
06:35Because we can make Sebastian over and over.
06:37He used that backhand.
06:39And that each time that I come up and he uses it, I got the foot in.
06:43But how did that happen?
06:44Well, basically, all I did was I conditioned him to think that I was going to drag up, kick, plant,
06:52drag back.
06:56And it's the dragging back that he keeps seeing in his mind.
07:00So this time I drag up, kick, plant, kick.
07:05In his own mind, he still sees me planting back.
07:10All right.
07:10So that's one way of conditioning.
07:12Another way is, is that when you put your own guard up, this is the one that he's mostly concerned
07:19with.
07:19This is the closest to him.
07:20You start to faint with this in some way.
07:23Fake.
07:24Try and move.
07:25You're getting Sebastian to perform for you.
07:29That's a good word I want you to remember.
07:30We're making him perform.
07:32So Sebastian, I know that he likes to move this way.
07:35He likes to do this, a little more out that way.
07:37He likes to use that hand.
07:38He's aware of my front hand.
07:40But I don't want him to be entirely aware of that front hand anymore.
07:44So what I do is I purposely know that my backhand is out of range.
07:48So I take a little shuffle and drag, and I can't quite reach.
07:52In fact, he moves his head back a little bit.
07:54Good.
07:55Well, he must think I'm stupid to keep trying this move over and over, right?
07:59Now he's not conscious of my front hand anymore.
08:02So as I move, the front hand was already in and always was close enough.
08:08But I took his consciousness away from the front hand and placed it where?
08:13I placed his consciousness to the backhand, which was always out of range.
08:17But this was always in range.
08:19But I couldn't quite get it in because he was so, before, aware of what it was doing.
08:25Now this is one form in conditioning your opponent.
08:28Besides conditioning our opponent, I want to work on complementary angles.
08:34And we did in some of the other tapes, we learned that when you are in an improper neutral bow,
08:40for instance, if his knees are bent but the front foot is turned forward,
08:45that that angle can be a guide for my foot right up between his legs.
08:49And we found out that most people, when they kick in the street that aren't martial art trained,
08:53will kick from the ground up.
08:57All right.
08:58So a good neutral stance with the knees bent and a feet out of 45 will nullify most kicks that
09:04come from the ground up,
09:05if you position yourself properly.
09:07All right.
09:08Now, Sebastian's at this angle here.
09:10He's in a left neutral bow.
09:12He puts his guard up high, has his hand down as a check.
09:16Now this is pretty close to what we learned before, which is a, what?
09:20A universal block.
09:21But it's just a little expanded at this point.
09:24Now, with Sebastian in that position, and I want to move in on him.
09:29I know that through my experience that action is faster than reaction.
09:33I'm going to take advantage of this and advantage of the angles that are open for me.
09:37When the arm is up in this position, and he who hesitates, and it's been said in Kempo, will meditate
09:45in horizontal position.
09:46So in this position, I'm going to take advantage of it.
09:49If I complement the angle, which is about a 45 degree angle, it can lead me to a target,
09:56such as complementing this angle here can send me right into Sebastian's solar plexus or chest area.
10:05If I go on the top of this angle, it also can send a heel palm strike up to the
10:11sternum.
10:12But these become guides now to his defeat.
10:16All right?
10:17Now, if you look at it, again, I'll slow it down a little bit.
10:20I could shuffle in and do this and get in deep enough, but I'm getting too deep and I could
10:25get hit.
10:26Or I could get a knee in the groin.
10:28I could shuffle in.
10:29Moving foot over a little bit.
10:31I could shuffle in on top and hit it.
10:34But again, I'm getting too deep and I could get hit with his rear hand too.
10:39So what stance did I use in this type of sparring?
10:42Is I did a left rear crossover.
10:45What it did, it allowed me to get in.
10:48But in doing so, it put my hand on a nice check and kept my body at the furthest point
10:53from his right hand.
10:56Also, my twist stance, and we learned earlier, rather than leaving myself open, the twist stance pinched off the groin
11:03as I made my hit, as I crossed in.
11:08All right.
11:09Whether it be over the top or over the bottom.
11:11But this gives you an idea how to complement the angle of a defense to get into the target.
11:18All right.
11:19Another method in opening Sebastian up is not just only complementing, but actually taking his defensive posture and, so to
11:28speak, opening the doors.
11:30And the way this can be done is I can match him left to left.
11:35And as I work from a left to left situation, I can purposely drop my rear hand down, inviting an
11:42action.
11:43All right.
11:43Now, before that action hits, I better be quick.
11:47By inviting an action, if it comes, I can parry it, go into a cat stance, and execute a kick.
11:56Because I know that this target is going to be there if this is done properly.
12:02And in Kempo, it's like shooting a game of pool.
12:06One of the objects of the game is that after you've hit the cue ball into the object ball, and
12:11it goes into the pocket, is that you make sure that the cue ball is aligned for the next shot.
12:16You just don't let it run all over the table, hoping there'll be another shot available.
12:21Kempo's designed the same way.
12:23Even so far ahead that I know that if I purposely, number one, open myself, begins the punch, I have
12:31to parry, I also have to use a stance change.
12:33And that was about four or five different moves.
12:35But in the process, I knew that at the end of it, if it was done properly, I would have
12:40the target that I picked in my own line.
12:44Now, rather than hoping that he'll punch and maybe get a target.
12:51All right.
12:52And especially now, when you fight more than one guy, you have to create the openings.
12:56That's in the other tape too, but it's important to understand this here as well.
13:00So what I do is I purposely open myself, get Sebastian to parry, shoot the kick, and of course the
13:07follow-up is quite obvious.
13:10All right.
13:10Now, what's interesting about opening that door, that's opening up the back door.
13:15Now we're going to open up the front door.
13:16I'm going to use the same pattern.
13:18And as I start with my guard up, I'm going to purposely drop my hand down.
13:23And as he thinks I'm going, and hopefully before he punches, before that punch occurs, I'm going to open up
13:30the lead hand and come over and execute my kick.
13:35And of course, all this stuff is open and available.
13:39And we go into self-defense techniques.
13:42All right.
13:43Watch it again.
13:44I'm in a left neutral.
13:47All I do is I step off, parry it, parry it, and basically open it up.
13:53My right hand is up, so if he does punch, punch straight at me, then I can redirect it at
13:58this point and use my kick.
14:01Or, as I came over, I can still use the lead hand to parry and or block as I simultaneously
14:08kick and poke.
14:09This is sophisticated techniques somewhat, but it's the concept.
14:14That's not really sophisticated.
14:16All it was was putting my hand down where it looked like it was out of range, where it couldn't
14:23really hurt him.
14:24But yet it was out of position to where it can open him up as I make my move.
14:31So this is another way of dealing with a sparring situation that arises in the street.
14:36Now, you've also got to understand, too, that if you don't want to open his defense, compliment his defense, or
14:43purposely bait him to get it open, or go deep into his defense into home base, so to speak,
14:49how else can you deal with somebody in the street when he puts his guard up or he's ready to
14:54spar with you?
14:55Well, let's look at it from this angle here.
15:01Look at the first line of defense, which happens to be his arm down to his knee, down to his
15:06foot.
15:07So now we're not considered with what's going on in here as much as we are as what is stuck
15:13right out in front of us.
15:14We can do a number of things.
15:16We can come through the defense.
15:17We can actually plow through it.
15:21Now, I'm using a heel palm.
15:22In reality, on the street, I use my knuckles, and I would strike and attempt to break or shatter the
15:28forearm.
15:29I would also stop breaking the knee, and before I plant, stomping the foot, which is positioned for me.
15:37And, of course, remember I taught you how to stand on one leg?
15:40Again, now you can understand why this is so important.
15:44So I'm going to go through it.
15:46Rather than around it or compliment it, I'm going to bust through a defense, and so forth, and around, and
15:54use that one-legged stance.
15:56I don't even have to get in deep enough to commit myself.
15:59By practicing some of this stuff from the previous tape, it's quite obvious what can be done.
16:05Another method to employ is to get your attacker to chase you.
16:11What I mean by that is that if we've begun our sparring situation, if I look like I'm in a
16:19retreating position,
16:21people have got to understand that sometimes you take this type of posture that it looks like you're running.
16:27Well, that's great, because if he takes the bait from a running position as he comes in with a punch,
16:32that's not a running position.
16:35But what it does is it begins to get this attacker to open himself up for a back kick.
16:41And that's important because not just for the back kick, but it re-instills the fact that Akimpois has weapons
16:50360 degrees around him.
16:52He doesn't have to face and be perfectly balanced in a neutral stance to fight from.
16:58Although most of it does take place from that position and that posture, there isn't an angle, an attitude that
17:06Akimpois can't fight out of.
17:08And he learns this.
17:09If we take this stance, it looks like a run, it's no more than a right reverse close kneel is
17:15all it is.
17:15Because as he comes in from that position, I can change targets, I can go to the knee, go to
17:20the other side of the knee, so forth, change the angle with this foot,
17:24and then bring myself back into play and back into a normal posture again.
17:30I hate to use the word normal because there really is no normal posture, especially in a street sparring situation.
17:36It's from wherever the angles that you're at at that time and how you make them work for you.
17:41All right, now let's take it a step further.
17:44Let's take, for instance, if I was pushed, shoved, or even hit and knocked down onto the mat or the
17:51ground because we're out in the street.
17:53One thing to remember is that if you are conscious and if you got knocked down is that as you
18:00hit the ground,
18:01you hit in such a way that if I'm punched or so forth and I fell, if I can manage
18:08to position myself into a neutral ground position.
18:12Now, what I mean by neutral is that obviously you're not wide open like this, but it's in a position
18:19somewhat to a neutral bowl where you have your weight not all the way on the back arm,
18:24nor all the way up here, but centered.
18:27Okay, it is a neutral stance.
18:29From here you can cover up your vital areas, the groin areas.
18:33You can cover up your lower stomach.
18:35Your ribs can be covered and so forth.
18:37Now, rather than being spread out in this situation, and this is dangerous, and I'll show you why.
18:43Sebastian, would you take that posture down there?
18:47Can you move up here a little bit?
18:48Now, if his legs are spread out, if anybody has, well it's quite obvious, we can go to the groin,
18:55but let's say we don't have a groin shot, but the legs are still spread out.
18:58I wouldn't waste my time to get all the way up here to try and get around to Sebastian.
19:03But in reality, I would stomp what's open and the extremities, everything that's sticking out from him.
19:11It would only make my job easier at this point to go in and begin my techniques from this posture
19:19here.
19:20So it's important that when you hit the ground, thank you, Sven, that you hit in such a way that
19:27you're in a neutral position and everything's pulled in to your perimeter here.
19:33If you look at the way I'm situated on the ground, there's a number of things that can happen from
19:36this angle.
19:37For instance, if Sebastian shuffles in, it could be because he wants to punch and or grab, punch with his
19:45backhand, kick with his back leg, kick with his front leg.
19:50Alright, now rather than to try and block kick and raise myself up to where I'm blocking the kick, but
19:57I'm also at a disadvantage to block his arms.
20:00I'm going to use a different type of blocking, or you might call it trapping, but I'm not going to
20:04use the weapons that are the furthest from his leg.
20:07But as he shuffles in, I'm going to use the ones that are the closest.
20:11Now, if you look at this, come on back up, Sebastian, come back a little bit.
20:15My bottom foot was positioned in a half circle, and it was no more than a bait or a trap.
20:22But as Sebastian came in, I took advantage of it and trapped him.
20:26It acts as a fulcrum, it anchors him down.
20:29Now, as he comes in, I use no more than a right side thrust kick, punch, kick.
20:37All that is being controlled.
20:38Not only that, is he getting possibly a broken knee, or a bruised shin, however you want to dell it
20:44out.
20:44But the important thing is, is that in the strike, alright, we're applying defensive measures to curtail his height, his
20:53width, or his depth.
20:54And we've learned what those mean to us.
20:57Alright, but that's only for so long, because eventually he could pull out of this.
21:01Come up a little bit, come up a little bit.
21:03Now, so from that position, next move we take it a step further and do a heel hook, right behind
21:10the knee.
21:10Now we can hit in there, it becomes a strike, but it also positions him down and away from you.
21:16Again, controlling those zones.
21:18And come on back up, Sebastian.
21:20And you'll also notice that the knee is going to get hit, not from me, but from cement, or curb,
21:28or whatever is there on the ground.
21:30Come on up a little bit, so that as I buckle him out, his knee, you can hear it hit
21:36the ground.
21:36If I want to take it a step more, I can rotate, continue on, have a fulcrum here, and snap
21:43the knee by taking his foot at a 45 degree angle.
21:46I can take it this way, or I can take it over this way.
21:49That's not real important right now, because I'm teaching you the concepts and principles of this type of sparring.
21:55Alright, come on up. Let's watch this again.
21:58But instinctively, if you've only practiced using your hands in an upright position, or your feet in an upright position,
22:04this is what will happen in a real situation.
22:07The moment he comes in, you're going to go into this type of situation.
22:12Now, you may be good.
22:13You may be strong enough to take his blows.
22:15And I'm not saying that there isn't a lot you can do from this position.
22:20But, why take the chance of suddenly rushing up and having to go through all that,
22:26when you can keep all of your vital parts, head, ribs, and so forth, groin area, away from you,
22:32and employ it from here, whether it be going from here, back to this point, or back from here, up
22:39to the groin, and so forth.
22:41And you can keep controlling this guy at all these different angles from here, without exposing yourself into it.
22:48Alright, now, let's take a situation similar.
22:52Switch your stance, Sebastian.
22:54Now, Sebastian is going to, instead of shuffle, but he's going to step through.
22:58And we know what a step through is.
23:00And he's going to step through, and a lot of body weight comes with that.
23:03But as he steps through, we're just going to borrow that force and stretch him out.
23:07Now, again, I'm pretty much out of range. I better keep myself somewhat covered.
23:11If I stretch him too far, I might stretch him right into my own groin area.
23:14But I'm okay at this point.
23:17Now, if I roll over and I bring him forward with a kick, a little more, I've got a finger
23:23slice,
23:24I can roll back, pull myself out of position, kick from banging back again, use both legs,
23:30however I want to do to position myself to get back up and off the ground.
23:36Now, these were only ideas. Thank you, Sebastian.
23:39They're not rules.
23:41But sparring has to be all-inclusive, or what we call street sparring, sparring self-defense.
23:48It's much more than just trading blows.
23:53Punch, block, keep sparring, so forth, kick, and to try and out-blow the other person.
24:01Try to out-kick him, and so forth.
24:03It's once you get a move in Kimple is that you move to the next and the most logical move,
24:09go down,
24:10that you can employ, and so forth.
24:15This is logical. It makes sense.
24:17Take some practice.
24:19Or, if you don't want to practice it, you can trade blows.
24:22If the guy's bigger, if he's stronger, faster, you're not going to come out the victor.
24:28Thank you, Sebastian.
24:43Good. All right. Good, gentlemen.
24:45We face each other.
24:46Now, let's stop this right at this point.
24:48We see a lot of punching, a lot of kicking, a lot of trading of strikes.
24:53Now, as I said earlier, that's what we want to try and avoid.
24:55But, you know, not everything is going to work exactly how we want it to, especially in a street altercation.
24:59Now, what is the yelling?
25:01We hear a lot of yelling, and to those of you that are watching these tapes,
25:05you already know what it is if you've been studying the martial arts.
25:08But those of you that haven't studied the martial arts, why do we yell?
25:12Well, it does a number of things.
25:13Number one, when you take in air, and as you yell it out or blow it out of your mouth,
25:21and this type of action, what it does is it forces air out, but it also forces air down into
25:28your lower stomach.
25:29Now, this is important, because imagine a basketball that is totally deflated,
25:36and you're holding that clutching of basketball that's deflated.
25:40And there was a way to suddenly feel that basketball all the way up with air within less than a
25:46split second.
25:47What would happen to your arms and hands?
25:48They would be exploded away from you and possibly broken.
25:53That much energy going in that suddenly.
25:56Well, your stomach, in a sense, is like that basketball.
25:59Sebastian, would you take a horse stance?
26:01And at the moment of impact, all right, he would force air down into the lower part of his stomach,
26:08and it would actually balloon out.
26:09If you look at my fingers, as I push into Sebastian's stomach, obviously they go in.
26:15It's easy.
26:15But now, as he pushes out with his stomach muscles, that in itself is a type of kiai.
26:21Now, at the point that he shoves out, if he was to yell and push, it shoves air out, and
26:26it quickly throws my hand back out.
26:28Now, this is important, because especially in sparring, you can't block every type of strike.
26:35And so what happens, if at any given point, a blow manages to slip in and catch you in the
26:41stomach, in the chest, or the ribs,
26:44you've got to kiai, and instinctively.
26:46And actually, you kiai before the move hits you.
26:49And you're going to say, well, how can I kiai when I don't even see the move?
26:51Well, by this time, your training has taught you that any time I see Sebastian move,
26:58I'm already beginning my kiai.
27:00So if I slip up, if I don't manage to see a strike, a foot, a knee, or something happens
27:05to hit those areas I was talking about,
27:07even my back, my kidneys, and so forth, I can withstand it.
27:11So if he does manage to strike an area, at least I can.
27:15That will actually, in a sense, become a block.
27:17It's a heck of a way to block, and I don't advise it.
27:20But the kiai did save me.
27:22I could weather that shot and then keep my strike going on through.
27:26Whereas, if I didn't know how to kiai, and I took a shot like this, that's it.
27:31Once the wind is knocked out of you, the fight's over.
27:33It also fortifies your body.
27:37When you yell, it tenses all the muscles up around the vital areas.
27:42This is important so that, like I said, that you can withstand a good strike, a tremendous kick.
27:48Back up just a little bit, Sebastian.
27:49Now, also, Sebastian, would you face me with your left leg forward?
27:54At the moment of kiai, and it's called kiai, and it's no more than a fancy term for properly breathing,
28:00is that when I kiai, whoops, and I yell, it forces me to solidify my base.
28:08Now, American boxing, they kiai, but they do it a little bit differently.
28:12They do it through their nose, and you'll see them with their mouth closed.
28:15And the reason they do it through their nose is primarily because they wear a mouth guard.
28:20So, but they have to keep this kiai fluctuating all the time.
28:25This is important because, as you notice, most boxers never get knocked out from getting hit into the ribs of
28:30the stomach.
28:31It's usually from getting hit in the face.
28:32It's not to say that they're not worn out and beaten down by getting hit in the ribs and stomach.
28:38But what it does is they go, this flex the stomach muscles back and forth, back and forth.
28:44So, if a blow is taken, it's always kiai, back and forth.
28:50They're forcing the air down, a little bit out, air down, a little bit out.
28:53It's so quick though, there's never a point to where they're caught on an inhale.
28:58And that's dangerous.
29:00If you get caught on an inhale, everything's going out and you're going down.
29:05That is the worst time to take a blow.
29:09If you're caught on an exhale, you're solidifying your base and you're pushing your stomach out.
29:14You're tightening the muscles up around there.
29:17Okay, thank you, Sebastian.
29:18Now, psychologically, it has an effect as well.
29:21And I'm sure that most of you have heard that if you yell at your attacker,
29:25a number of things can be going through his mind.
29:27You can think you're crazy or you're just frightened or so forth.
29:30But the thing of it is, if the yell is trained, and as you train your yell, it's like a
29:36singer.
29:37Most people that study the martial arts, as they get higher up in their rank,
29:41they know how to yell very, very loudly.
29:44They develop a pitch that's very piercing.
29:46It's very guttural, but it comes from the lower stomach.
29:49It comes all the way up.
29:50Now, this can have an off-balancing, mentally off-balancing effect
29:53on your opponent out in a street situation.
29:56So, these are a number of things that are important with the kiai,
29:59or a proper way of breathing.
30:01I'm going to have them freestyle again and watch when they kiai.
30:05Gentlemen, go ahead.
30:12Good.
30:13Gentlemen, can you do it again and slow it down just a little bit?
30:17Same thing.
30:17A little slower.
30:20All right, good.
30:22All right, good.
30:23Now, you also notice that when Sebastian punched, come on in.
30:27He punched, and as he hit his target, he also kiai'd.
30:31There's another reason for it.
30:32It's that kiai lets the adrenaline start to flow in your body.
30:36And it supports him in his strike, giving him a little more energy,
30:40a little more ferociousness in him as well.
30:43Gentlemen, keep it going about that speed.
30:48Good.
30:48Good.
30:50Good.
30:50Good.
30:52Good.
30:52Good.
30:53Good.
30:53Good.
30:53Good, gentlemen.
30:55Now, this will give you an idea on the kiai, how I want you to practice it.
31:00Gentlemen, if you go with your feet together, back up a little bit.
31:02Good.
31:03Let's take a neutral stance.
31:05Drop your arms.
31:06Take a deep breath through your nose.
31:09Retain it.
31:12And slowly exhale through your mouth.
31:15And you inhale.
31:17Slowly exhale.
31:18And as you exhale, I want you to feel your feet solidify,
31:23and somewhat grip the ground.
31:25Center yourself.
31:26Drop your weight through your nose.
31:28And this time as you exhale, I want you to yell sharply from the gut.
31:35Okay?
31:36What the word you say doesn't really matter.
31:38Some people like the word that's because it forces the stomach.
31:42It's a guttural sound.
31:43Pick your own way of yelling.
31:46That's not important.
31:47But the important thing, as you yell, you don't shove all of the air out of your lungs,
31:51but you're shoving only a part of it out, and the other part of it is going down into your
31:57lower stomach.
31:59Practice as if you're grabbing onto something.
32:01And as you pull down, you can feel that air as you're yelling being shoved down inside.
32:08Now, it gets a little long and lengthy, but you notice that in my other tapes,
32:11particularly in my mass attack tapes, you don't hear me key-eye very often.
32:16And when I do, it's only short, and it's where I feel that I need it.
32:20You don't want a key-eye on every strike.
32:23If you do that, you waste time because it takes a mental effort to do that.
32:27And later on, as you develop, and we get into more advanced tapes,
32:30there's even greater ways of using this key-eye so that you can control your speed,
32:35your power, and your mental thought throughout the situation.
32:40Practice it.
32:41It's very important.
32:43And you'll find out as we go along how important it truly is.
32:46I'm going to have them freestyle some more,
32:48and then we're going to interject something into this freestyling match.
32:53It's going to change the whole dimension of this freestyling.
32:56Gentlemen, begin.
33:06Hold it right there.
33:08All right, now, something's changed.
33:11It's quite obvious.
33:12He found a stick on the street.
33:13It could be a club or whatever.
33:14It could be metal.
33:15It could be wood.
33:17Whatever the case is.
33:18There's now Sebastian, who looked like he was losing that fight,
33:21and maybe he was if Daniel was up a little closer.
33:24He has something now, a weapon.
33:27Now, what happens, move up just a little bit on your feet,
33:30and just come up a little bit so they can see you back up a little bit,
33:32is that when you put a weapon in your hand,
33:34the first thing that changes, psychologically, you feel stronger.
33:37And the reason that you feel stronger is that you know that the weapon itself
33:42will take the abuse.
33:44Your hand, your arm won't take the abuse, but the weapon will.
33:48So, this really gives you a tremendous feeling, confident feeling,
33:52and you're not afraid to swing it as hard and as fast as you can.
33:55There's no worry of injuring yourself.
33:57Psychologically, it also begins to give him, make him feel at a disadvantage.
34:02Not only does he have to worry about Sebastian's natural weapons,
34:05but now he has to worry about an unnatural weapon,
34:08something that he's not afraid to use.
34:10It's also something that extends the reach almost twice what it was before.
34:18So, these are things that he has to be concerned about and how he deals with it.
34:22Now, he has to pick, excuse me, Daniel, can I slip in there?
34:26Daniel would have to pick targets, go ahead, swing it, foot maneuvers,
34:32that would stop this from happening.
34:35He can no longer just blindly go in and not worrying about an arm
34:40just brushing up against his leg,
34:42but a solid weapon that can curtail all of his efforts.
34:47So, as I was showing you earlier, if he was to swing and I stepped back
34:51and he came in again, I could step on it itself,
34:54sweep it away, get it totally out of the action,
34:58possibly use it for myself, but whatever the case is,
35:02I'm not going to deal with it again.
35:06These are only some ideas.
35:08Again, they're not rules, but it's to give you a chance to explore
35:12what can go wrong out there.
35:14I want to thank you for the help of Sebastian and Daniel,
35:17and I'll have him close this section of the tape with some sparring.
35:19Gentlemen, begin.
35:30Good.
35:32At this time, I want to bring out one point,
35:34and that's restrictive clothing.
35:36Your clothing plays a very important part in your sparring
35:38or any self-defense situation.
35:41You've got to understand that environment dictates how you're going to react,
35:46what weapons you're going to use, and so forth.
35:48But your environment also includes your clothing.
35:51It's part of your environment.
35:53Now, Sebastian, if you put your left leg forward, put your guard up,
35:57Sebastian's in a T-shirt.
35:58He knows if he falls on the ground, there's nothing to protect
36:01the bony part of his elbow if it scrapes along the cement.
36:04He has tennis shoes on.
36:06When they hit, they're not going to hit with the same impact as a pair of boots,
36:11hard shoes, this type of thing.
36:13He has a ring on.
36:14That's to his advantage if it's in the street.
36:18These things have to be taken in consideration.
36:20Thank you, Sebastian.
36:21Now, with today's fashionable clothing, such as tight jeans and so forth,
36:27that you look great and you poured yourself into your jeans,
36:30and you've got your boots on with high heels on it and this type of thing,
36:34and you have on a silk shirt.
36:35You may look great.
36:36You get out in the street, and suddenly those high boots
36:40won't allow you to use your foot maneuvering properly.
36:43Secondly, your jeans, as you go to kick somebody,
36:46suddenly you find out that you can only raise your knee this high.
36:49You've got to understand this.
36:51Most people don't really think about how clothing can be restrictive.
36:55So as you practice these techniques, practice them in your gi.
36:59It's obvious that in my gi, what I'm wearing now,
37:01I have full range of my moves.
37:03But then I also practice with tight jeans.
37:06I practice with boots.
37:07I practice with bare feet, with tennis shoes.
37:10I practice in a leather jacket.
37:12How the leather jacket restricts my movement,
37:15particularly in elbow strikes.
37:17All this plays a very important part in your knowledge of self-defense.
37:21Because if the moment arises, you've got to rise to the...
37:26You've got to rise to tighten.
37:26You've got to rise to our sea.
37:26And as I am on the other than the king seat rooms,
37:27I'm in space.
37:27You
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