After a two-year hiatus, Kinetic Fighting (KEF) courses for the general public were relaunched in Melbourne, Vic. on Saturday 13 October. Participants ranging from raw beginners to experienced martial arts instructors packed the mats at Moorabbin’s Bushido Academy for training in KEF’s Level One-Alpha program.
You’re a generally calm, sociable human being…so how do you learn to mentally ‘flick the switch’ and become an instrument of violence when your life is under threat? Try this oldie-but-goody: the Stimulus/Conditioned Response Training Principle.
In military and self-protection training, we often talk about mindset and about posture. But rarely do we recognise how the two are related, and the effect our posture can have on the mindset of others. That’s what makes the ‘hunting posture’ so important for soldiers in close-quarter combat.
