Self Defense

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With the help of his training in both karate, aikido, judo and tai chi, sensei Haynes feels himself totally comfortable in teaching self-defense. Auto defense or self-defense, as mostly named, isn’t as such a discipline. It’s the combination of the most efficient techniques coming from other disciplines. It’s quite rare to have people skilled in multiple disciplines or martial arts. No unique martial art can be considered as complete; each of them is specialized in one specific domain. As an example, the karate is focusing on hands and legs kicking techniques, aikido on seizing and dislocation techniques, judo on projections and even more on ground techniques.
We also see that learning all of these techniques is not so easy. That’s why some martial arts teachers have imagined, in order to be able to efficiently defend ourselves, to group the most efficient techniques from all these disciplines in one. The Army has also fast created a method to give the knowledge to the troops in a short timeframe, it’s called the close combat. The main difficulty is to find his way through all the possible techniques. We propose you here a first lesson, a really short overview of a simple and relatively complete progression that enables to enhance ones ability to defend oneself and become more confident.


Some important principle to follow:

  1. Always try to avoid combat, if possible. Even if you think you are clearly stronger than the opponent.
  2. Always overrate the opponent.
  3. Never leave the “work” unfinished. If you have to step in, leave the control to experts.
  4. Even if you think the combat is over, always remain attentive.
  5. Never imagine, because you’ve successfully followed training, that you can boast in the bad neighborhood.


First lesson : defence n°1

1.Seizing of a wrist (right right or left left): “nikyo”
2.Seizing of a wrist (right left or left right): “shi o nage”
3. Seizing of the 2 wrists: “shi o nage”
4. Strangulation face to face with both hands: clearing
5. Seizing from one hand and attack with the other hand: blocking + attack with the elbow