Common Sense Self Defence/Street Combat (CSSD/SC) provides quality training to all of its students at all times. We do not become involved in the politics of any Martial Arts body (or bodies.) We study an American/ English art so you will learn a syllabus without the need to speak a foreign language. Many martial arts still insist that a foreign language is learnt to communicate the origins of the art. We teach self defence incorporating key concepts and techniques from a range of effective martial arts systems. We are a realistic self-defence style, we do tackle weapons and utilise empty hand skills to maximise street awareness and defence
Methods of survival
Due to the reality of combat we stress defence and immediate counter striking. Attacking is easy. Anyone can master attacking with empty hand, stick or blade. Defence and counter striking must be taught, for this is the art. To survive you must be able to stop an incoming attack and the quickly counter-attack. Use of the checking hand becomes a natural and part of your response to an attack. Block, check and counter is the name of the game.
Natural responses to threat
Street Combat and self-defence must be simple. During the confrontation memory gives way to instinct. Detailed work and fine motor skills quickly vanish leaving only gross motor skills to remain. Our system advocates simplicity, directness, attitude, targeting and the use of weapons on a sliding scale from possession of a weapon to empty hand. CSSD/SC has found the connecting thread in the different martial art, which lead to reality in combat. This is a conceptual understanding of the principals of combat
Conceptual bases of techniques
Anybody can use the Street Combat system martial artist or not, at any time. CSSD/SC has been designed to meet the needs of today’s environment. CSSD/SC is not a particular way or style of fighting. The student motions are his or her own. This allows for rapid deployment of self-defence concepts. It is the principles of motion tied into conceptual patterns that are tempered by today’s complex legal liabilities of our current society.
The Street Combat understanding is that knife teaches stick, stick teaches empty hand and empty hand teaches structural knowledge and morality. Street Combat teaches the reality of combat and the understanding of concepts as they apply to self-defence
How to adapt and flow under attack
CSSD/SC allows for the student to grow within themselves with universal concepts of offensive and defensive motions. No two students will seem the same for NO TWO PEOPLE ARE THE SAME. By using principals of motion all people can have self-defence ,as they will absorb what is useful for them and discard that which does not apply
Use of restraint
CSSD/SC teaches street style combat, not military style. In military combat things get broken and people are killed. In street combat, survival and restraint are the order of the day. Surviving to see the next day and maintaining your personal freedom is just good common sense. You will learn to use speed and aggression, brain over braun. You will learn to control effectively, not just emulate impossible techniques that are visually impressive. The principle of close quarter battle is the same; the faster the fight is over the better.
Always the best advice is to avoid a fight if at all possible.
Legal limits to the use of force
Within these parameters CSSD/SC recognises the legalities of the use of force. We believe in non-lethal force. The principle we impress upon on students is to evade rather than fight, restrain rather than mame, mame rather than……
If in the end, as far as the law is concerned, you have acted reasonably in defending yourself or your family and have not pressed your advantage. You should get a sympathetic hearing
CSSD/SC teaches street style combat without the need to speak a foreign language. We teach self defence incorporating key concepts and techniques from a range of effective martial arts systems, at all time remembering that we are all individuals. We are a realistic system and we do tackle weapons and utilise empty hand skills to maximise street awareness and defence in conjunction with teaching the lawful use of force