We practice our respective arts on a daily basis, and train to be the best we can in competition, self defense or whatever other of the many reasons there are to train, but how often, in these pursuits, do we make the scenarios we practice real or at least realistic?
Last month I was privileged to be able to participate in a unique class offered as an extra at my school. The class is titled H.I.A.T.U.S. which I'm sure based on the title you've discerned means Home Invasion and Tactical Urban Survival. In this class we spent about 6 hours crash coursing in useful practices and skills for protecting our homes, making bug out bags (survival packs for cars and home), executing basic self defense for real life situations, in real world areas (not in the dojo) and even going as far as learning to escape from binding materials like duct tape, zip ties, rope and even handcuffs (yes the bad guys sometimes use them too).
Almost all of what we learned can be executed by anyone so a martial arts background is not needed to learn what we now know. Obviously based on my background I would still recommend that to you as you don't build muscle memory for defense in one day like this, but a class taught like this (properly) can provide a ton of useful information that could save your life. I encourage you to educate yourselves in a similar way.
As the old saying says, "luck favors the prepared".
Channel 3 came down to film parts of the class for a news spot they were doing about preventing home invasion. Here's a link to the story.
H.I.A.T.U.S. class on WFSB
Train on.
Last month I was privileged to be able to participate in a unique class offered as an extra at my school. The class is titled H.I.A.T.U.S. which I'm sure based on the title you've discerned means Home Invasion and Tactical Urban Survival. In this class we spent about 6 hours crash coursing in useful practices and skills for protecting our homes, making bug out bags (survival packs for cars and home), executing basic self defense for real life situations, in real world areas (not in the dojo) and even going as far as learning to escape from binding materials like duct tape, zip ties, rope and even handcuffs (yes the bad guys sometimes use them too).
Almost all of what we learned can be executed by anyone so a martial arts background is not needed to learn what we now know. Obviously based on my background I would still recommend that to you as you don't build muscle memory for defense in one day like this, but a class taught like this (properly) can provide a ton of useful information that could save your life. I encourage you to educate yourselves in a similar way.
As the old saying says, "luck favors the prepared".
Channel 3 came down to film parts of the class for a news spot they were doing about preventing home invasion. Here's a link to the story.
H.I.A.T.U.S. class on WFSB
Train on.
