Womens Martial Arts - Your Perfect Strategy Against Big Attackers

If you are a woman and want to improve your martial arts, then I have a great tip for you. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't catch on and help improve all women's martial arts. It really is a great strategy against big attackers.

Instead of discussing your strategy for fighting, let's talk about your strategy for ... learning. We can deal with specific tactics in another article, sometime soon.

For now, let's improve your women's martial arts learning strategy. Specifically, whom you model.

Biggest Error for Women in a Mixed Martial Arts Class

By mixed, I mean co-ed -- males and females in the class -- not a class of the style of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).

Are you in such a class?

If so, do you do your best to imitate what everyone else, especially your seniors, are doing?

It's customary to watch those more advanced and to try to copy their movements, tactics, and strategies.

I think women should find a better model. They spend a lot of time mastering the same techniques that big, heavy males are practicing.

The Perfect Strategy for Women Martial Artists

So, women shouldn't imitate bruisers -- deducing that everything being equal, the more muscular will overpower using ... power techniques.

Don't try to overpower someone with power. Makes sense, right?

Instead, find a way to finesse your big competitors. And rather than looking to other women, I have a great suggestion....

Observe, study, analyze and imitate ... older martial artists! Look for martial arts who have been practitioners for a long time. FInd men and women who have lost some of their strength, stamina, and maybe some speed because of age.

The reason you are observing them is because, believe it or not, they still have what it takes. I see martial artists in their 60s and 70s who still beat martial artists in their athletic prime.

They aren't succeeding by overpowering their younger opponents.

They have learned efficiency, economy of motion, better timing, and other finesses.

As a woman, your best strategy is to learn the strategy of your golden-age martial artists.

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Or read another article on Women's Self Defense.

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Deadly Martial Arts and Marketing Madness

The martial arts industry is highly competitive, and to stay ahead you need an image that you can market to the public. Misrepresentations and outrageous claims have done a lot of damage to the martial arts industry, though, and Count Dante is a primary example.

In 1964, there were only 13 martial arts schools in Chicago, and two of them were owned by local boy John Keehan. Keehan trained as a boxer; after graduating from high school he joined the Marine Corps Reserves and later the Army, where he learned hand-to-hand combat and jujitsu techniques. After completing his service he trained with Robert Trias, who had opened the first karate school in the United States. After earning his black belt Keehan began marketing martial arts to everyone, not just soldiers and police officers.

In order to attract students Keehan put on tournaments, and trained anyone who wanted to learn practical martial arts meant for street fights. His students became members of his Black Dragon Fighting Society, and trained in either karate or judo. In 1967, Keehan changed his name to Count Juan Raphael Dante and began promoting himself in comic book ads, declaring himself the "Deadliest Man Alive." Keehan told friends that his parents fled Spain during the Spanish Civil War and changed the family name; in reality, though, his family was Irish. Keehan had always been a dedicated martial artist, but he soon began to believe he was the comic book hero.

Controversy would follow Keehan for the remainder of his martial arts career as he made more outrageous claims. He said he had become a martial arts master by killing other masters in "death matches," and reportedly challenged Muhammad Ali to a bout, a challenge the boxer's camp ignored. He had kept a lion as a pet, and claimed to be a hairdresser for Playboy magazine. Some sources even say he trained gang members, and had ties to organized crime. During Chicago's "dojo wars," Keehan was charged with attempted arson when he tried to blow up a competitor's dojo. Later he and some of his students attacked Black Cobra Hall dojo, and during the bloody fight Keehan's best friend would be killed. By the time of his in death in 1975 from a bleeding ulcer, the infamous Count Dante was a burned-out and broken man.

Keehan's story is a tragic one not just because he died so young, but because he had the potential to be a good martial artist. The problem was he began believing his own hype, and what started out as an over the top marketing campaign turned into a destructive lifestyle. He was among the first to teach combat martial arts and practical self defense techniques in the United States outside of the armed forces, but he made things overly complicated. He claimed he created many moves when he only renamed traditional moves. A martial arts instructor doesn't have to be serene and calm all the time, and there is nothing wrong with making money, but an instructor should never sacrifice integrity or misrepresent martial arts. In the end, Count Dante damaged the reputation of lethal martial arts training [http://www.TopSecretTraining.com] and turned the title of martial arts instructor into a joke, simply because he wanted to feed his ego.

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