Instructor David Fullen

 

Weapons Training

RULE 1 :

NEVER TANGLE WITH AN ARMED ASSAILANT UNLESS YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER CHOICE.

 

Weapons training at Fullen's School of Self Defense involves learning how to use and respect some of the more common weapons that turn up as implements of aggression in modern society, as well as a few 'traditional' weapons.

The more traditional weapons, which include the bo (a five- or six-foot wooden staff), Kama (a bladed tool for harvesting rice), and Nunchaku (two sticks joined with a short cord or chain), are practiced for the gaining of insights and concepts. The insights result from developing a basic understanding of movement, balance, and coordination while manipulating a weapon. The concepts are the basic traits that are common to all weapons and the laws of physics that govern both empty handed and weapon techniques.

Other weapon training includes learning how to use and, if necessary, how to defend yourself against an adversary armed with a club, knife, or handgun.

Keeping Rule #1 in mind, the tactics and techniques for defending against a weapon are taught with the understanding that there is no such thing as a technique that always works. Every technique offered is taught with the caveat that it’s to be used only if there is no other option. Your first – and best – technique for dealing with an armed assailant should be, “Don’t be there!”

 

  

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