Advanced Fighting Concepts

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Advanced Fighting Concepts is our approach to learning today's advanced fighting concepts. It is a concept-based art that rests on maximum threat neutralization in a real life, practical context.

Make no mistake, Advanced Fighting Concepts is not a style of martial arts. It is not traditional yet embraces history with a deep respect for its lessons. It also isn't anything new, as there is nothing that is truly original.

It is also not MMA or a mix of martial arts styles. In fact, its goal is not the addition of things. Its goal is to simplify, becoming more direct and efficient in your movements. This leads to becoming more centered and in-line with your goal. Moving aggressively foward at every opportunity. It's goal is to self-preservation in its purest form.

There are no uniforms, attire or competitions. All movements focus on maximum efficiency in realistic conditions. It generally assumes that an attacker will give no quarter. Therefore, responses are intended for use in potentially life threatening situations. Devastating attacks to vulnerable body parts, bareknuckle strikes, headbutts, elbows, and other efficient and potentially brutal attacks are emphasized.

Advanced Fighting Concepts emphasizes simplicity, practicality and efficiency of movement. It teaches individuals how to overcome fight paralysis and trains the body to take the proper course of action. This totally changes a person's mindset and readjusts them for the reality of a confrontation.

Advanced Fighting Concepts teaches that reality isn't the way you think things to be or the way you want things to be. Reality is exactly how things actually are. The closer you get to the reality of self-defense, the more you can own it. And when you own reality you can use it to your advantage. If you don't accept reality, things will naturally work against you.

Advanced Fighting Concepts empowers individuals to take responsibility for their own well-being. It teaches individuals how to make the attacker the victim. Be the aggressor. Advance immediately. Strike first. Continuously move. Simultaneously attack and defend. Surprise an attacker by putting the pressure on them and move the situation into devastingly close-quarters range. Continue moving forward at every opportunity and staying with the opponent. If you are unable to strike and disable your opponent, make contact with some part of their body (arms, legs or torso) and stick to it with constant forward pressure. Once there is opportunity, you give up constant contact in order to go in with your attack.

Our training is often quite different from other martial arts training. It stresses fighting under worst-case conditions or from disadvantaged positions. For example: against faster or stronger opponents, against several opponents, when protecting someone else, with one arm unusable or when blind-folded. Advanced Fighting Concepts emphasizes quick learning and the continuous motion, with the number one goal of effectiveness.

We emphasize that there are no rules in a fight and that the best defense is an attack. Training is an intense mixed aerobic and anaerobic workout, relying heavily on the use of free-flowing partner drills, heavy bag work, pads and hardwood training dummies. in order to experience both delivery and defense of strikes at full force. This is important because it allows the student to practice the technique at full strength. Students will also wear head guards, mouth pieces, groin protectors, during practice of attack/defense techniques, so that a realistic level of violence may be used without injury. Most importantly, we emphasize full-contact sparring with headgear intended to familiarize the student with the stresses of a violent situation.

Training may also be on a variety of surfaces and have restrictive situations like wearing a blindfold before being attacked. The emphasis is on attempting to simulate real fight/attack situations as realistically as possible within the safety limitations of training.

Training will usually also cover situational awareness, to develop an understanding of one's surroundings and potentially threatening circumstances before an attack is launched. It may also cover "Self Protection": ways to deal with situations which could end in fights, and physical and verbal methods to avoid violence whenever possible.

A typical session is about an hour long and starts with Chinese Qigong exercises and then goes on to partner drills. The instructor may then a teach specific self-defense movement for the day and then the session most always ends in sparring.

Relaxation Training
One needs to be relaxed in order to move dynamically and to react quickly to the actions of an opponent. When you are tense, your "own force" acts as a parking brake -- you must disengage it first before you can move quickly. Training consists of teaching the student to relax in the most stressful of situations.

Use Your Opponent's Force against him
Take advantage of the force your opponent gives you. If an opponent pulls you toward him, use that energy as part of your attack. Or if an opponent pushes one side of your body, you can act as a pully and use that force in an attack with your other arm.

But Don't Be Fooled...
Advanced Fighting Concepts was specifically designed for everyone - from beginners to the most advanced martial artists. Everyone can benefit from these modern training methods and no-nonsense concepts.

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