COMPLIMENTARY TRAINING TIPS

For The Body
 
 
DEDICATION
 
To the students of FASST/Dux Ryu, The Instructors of Dux Ryu Ninjitsu, No-Hold’s Barred fighters and all those others who are not afraid to test themselves or accept the truth, especially, those who possess an open mind but retain the common sense to demand of ourselves and the Martial Sciences, we “Keep It Real,”

 
In order that fact and fiction, that esoteric theory and empirical reality do not become confused and blended as being one and the same, this is the defining difference between the pursuit of the martial arts and the martial sciences. Particularly, when one is making a comparison to FASST/Dux Ryu.
 
 What makes a martial art a martial art is that its free flowing with no way of telling or predicting what the creative process will yield – that is the very nature of art, itself. 
A style without a style, even falls into this category.
 
Unlike the status quo of martial artists, the person dedicated to achieve perfection of the martial science is the one to become skilled in reproducible results, as in A + B  = C, as in learning algebra or a craft. 

This takes into account, including the studying and mastery of non-telegraphic bio-mechanical postures and principles of being proactive as in attacking with a series of combinations that are predisposed to have broken timing and rhythm, as in the techniques and weapons delivery systems utilized by FASST/Dux Ryu, which makes it a science and trades/war-craft.

 

Its results when employed according to specific Angles of Attack, for instance, can be reproduced with consistency, time and again.  It has all the attributes of being creative, a style without a style, without its drawbacks.  As martial science through Focus-Action-Skills-Strategy-Tactics, leaves nothing to the imagination/theoretical preconception where reacting or the employment of untested combinations or techniques are open to personal interpretation and, thus error – defeat.   To truly be considered a product of a martial science means one does not continue to subscribe to or promote myths, regarding combat.  Such as, my personal favorite, “Of all styles being one in the same but are just taking different paths to the top of the mountaintop, and once you get there the view is the same.” This is just pure NONSENSE!

on between us all… doomed to unyielding mediocrity.  Another era of dark ages.
 

For anyone who has tasted real combat and become accomplished in more than one style or discipline is made cognizant by adversity and thereby recognizes immediately that the arts are not one in the same and are not equal.  The fact is that each style remains effective according to the different needs of a different archetype - biomechanics or training, to deal with the threats that will occur and the means to neutralize them in accordance to their very different threat levels. In other, simplistic words, while no style is a matter of right or wrong, however, not all styles are equal as in no two men are truly equal in the heat of battle; particularly, where one’s life hangs in the balance.

Each one has their strengths and each one has their inherent vulnerabilities – spiritually, mentally, and physically - that if one applies the principles of FASST, Focus-Action-Skill-Strategy and Tactics, one will be able to deal with all threats to the spirit, mind and body by being the one acting instead of reacting, in each given category – Spirit, Mind and Body. 

As FASST/Dux Ryu is a martial science we know by empirical experience that if one were to use a given set of unpredictable movements that takes into account all contingency’s based upon the given responses by an aggressor, we can resolve the conflict in a matter of executing just a set of combinations of strikes that will induce the bio-mechanical failure/death or maiming of an aggressor – e.g. suffocation, heart failure, loss of blood, shock, etc.  Be decisively FASST.
 
One of the best ways to train to induce multiple injuries in an aggressor is by executing multiple strikes where each one is different as in terms of hand position; thereby, each inducing a different traumatic effect versus a standard blow of the fist.
 

For example, in place of a closed fisted straight jab, one jabs with outstretched fingers that blind an aggressor, instead of merely inducing pain or momentarily stunning an opponent (which is the appropriate response, if only confined to a No-Holds-Barred sport or combat arrest and control, threat level 3 situation).  A turned open hand palm strike below the sternum, can stop the heart or cause the solar plexus to be traumatized to the point of forcing the body’s muscles to tighten around the lungs, suffocating an aggressor and denying him his wind.  And this strike can be followed up with a knife-edge hand strike to the throat crushing the windpipe… ensuring a death by suffocation, when the stomach wall eventually, relaxes allowing the lungs to take in oxygen.

 
 Three lethal strikes if practiced diligently can become instinctively reflexive to NEUTRALIZE A LETHAL THREAT IN LESS THAN THE TIME SPAN OF ONE BLINK OF THE EYE.
 
In teaching one to instinctively incorporate varying hand strikes are what we describe in FASST/Dux Ryu as BOB drills, named after the practice equipment (as seen).
 
Four of the most basic Lethal Threat Level Four Responses taught in FASST/Dux Ryu have been posted here for your review and to provide another glimpse into why, we are not a martial art but martial science.