Wednesday, September 15, 2010

VIDEO: Hand Conditioning with Damian Ross and The Self Defense Training System



Body Conditioning: A systematic to prepare the human skeletal, musculature and nervous systems for close quarters, unarmed combat.

This is the most overlooked aspect of self defense training and it is essential for the SDTS (Self Defense Training System). Without this type of preparation you will be unable to withstand the physical demands of hand to hand combat. Methods that require you to wear hand protection, strike air or pull your technique on a regular basis must be SERIOUSLY examined as to their real world effectiveness.

There are tow types of "conditioning": offensive and defensive. Offensive conditioning refers to preparing all areas of the body used for attack: edge of hand, heal of hand, fore knuckles, forearms, elbows, shoulders, head, hip, knee, shin, heel, instep of foot, buttocks, bottom of foot, etc. Defensive conditioning refers to preparing the areas of the body that are targets of attack: chin, neck, throat, solar plexus, genitals, spine, kidneys, liver, spleen, etc.

The method to develop pain tolerance and to deliver effective strikes through body conditioning is simple in concept. Slowly start to inflict a tolerable amount of pain to the area without causing bleeding, bruising or breakage. build up the intensity over time and let pain be your guide. After you condition your body, put it in ice or under cold water ASAP and then hot. About 10 to 20 minutes of each. Do your conditioning at the end of your training session so you are warmed up and do not cause undo damage to your body.

The complete method of this essential training can be seen on module 6 of the self defense training system HERE (http://www.theselfdefenseco.com/module06.asp)


WARNING: STOP immediately is bleeding, bruising or intense pain. Make sure you are striking and object that is on a surface designed to absorb the shock and impact of your strikes. This will decrease any long term, negative effects of this type of training.
Damian Ross

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2 comments:

Gerry Nolan said...

Good info there Damien.
I've been working my Edge of Hand strike several months, admittedly not on the brick but on various rock hard Muay Thai bags.

I have noticed a greater penetrating power in my edge of hand strikes, and indeed a mental psychological benefit too of a stronger quieter confidence in my Edge of Hand strike since I started conditioning my edge of hand.

Also I have been doing years of hard no pads Krav Maga 360 Defense training (that dead forearm feeling) and I notice these days even tapping students forearms with my forearms causes many the "Ouch" reaction... I am like "I only tapped you light for God stake...lol".

Yes there is certainly great benefit in hand conditioning...

Indeed a friend who is a JKD Sifu one of the few directly under Ted Wong, told me recently for years Ted Wong has been tapping his bottom 3 knuckles off a piece of hard steel....increases bone density in his knuckles which is why Ted Wong apparently for years was giving younger fitter JKD guys standing 8 counts in JKD sparring... interesting little bit of info that is not common knowledge re Ted Wong conditioning his knuckles too...

God Bless
Gerry Nolan
Krav Maga Combatives Thailand
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Frank Cole said...

Hello,

This is Frank Cole. Thank you so much for answering my forum question in your video blog. It means a lot.

Frank