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The Ten Commandments of Instruction
1. Thou Shalt Teach from the Heart.
Everything you do must come from a place of caring. After all, teaching is about sharing and if you're angry or worse - indifferent, your students will be too. Nothing motivates and builds confidence more than knowing that someone cares about you.

2. Thou Shalt Not Make False Promises of Greatness.
Elite athletes and geniuses are born, not made. We all have different aptitudes, your job is to find out what you're good at and develop it. Elite athletes actually need little help from you, all they need is some guidance and structure. You can't coach greatness - only focus it. Elite people are anomalies. As for the rest of us, there comes a point of proficiency that is just good enough.

3. Thou Shalt Not Make Everyone A Champion
When I was a young black belt and just out of college I couldn't understand why someone didn't want to be the best. It took a few years to realize, not everyone can or even wants to be the best. People have other priorities...they're just not your priorities. In fact the vast majority of programs that focus on the elite fighter or player, quickly find themselves empty. Everyone plays a role and even champions need a supporting cast. You'll find your school, team or club will do a lot better when you focus on the core of the group.

4. Thou Shall Have a Plan
I have never known ANY coach worth his salt to "wing it" at practice. Every session needs a purpose. That session is a part of a larger group of sessions that are in turn connected to a system. Using the "show up and throw up" approach when you just come to class and teach off the top of your head will result in slow learning due to poor retention. Think of learning as building blocks - each lesson is connected to the previous lesson and that in turn is connected to a purpose. Imagine coming into school where one day you learn geometry and the next...calculus - you would probably fail worse than I actually did.

5. Thou Shalt Not Have Verbal Diarrhea
I tell you right now, you talk too much. Every instructor, myself included, loves to hear ourselves speak. Back in the day I could ramble for 20 minutes straight. Remember, after the first 60 seconds, they're not listening. For every 3 minutes of talking there should be 9 minutes of working. I have a watch with a timer. It's set on 3 minutes. When that beeps I shut the F up. In training you need REPS not TALK.

6. Thou Shall Stress the Basics
Any activity on any level comes down to only a handful of basic moves. They're usually the very first techniques you learn. Over time those techniques evolve, get better, stronger and faster - but they're still the same techniques. Find which ones work for you and just train them.

7. Thou Shall Keep it Simple and Stupid
Simple is what works - complicated only works on the easy opponents. When I was a kid wrestling I always wanted to learn the next, coolest complicated move...we called them clinic moves. In self defense we call them "seminar moves." This is because they only work in the seminar. They're also the one's people like to practice because they look cool. The internet is filled with "seminar moves". The absolute majority of what you see will not work in the real world. Simple works, keep it that way. Collect training methods, not techniques.

8. Thou Shall Not Be the Best in the Room
If you teach long enough, sooner or later someone is going to be better than you. There is a HUGE misconception in martial arts that the instructor is the best guy in the room. I also challenge you to find an instructor who would contradict that statement, after all, we're all egomaniacs and if someone wants to tell me "I'm a bad ass" I'm not going to stop them.

Unfortunately the reality is simply not the case. Eventually, if you teach enough people, someone is going to be better than you. Literally tens of thousands (hopefully someday millions) of people are training in The Self Defense Training System. I personally know people who are tough as hell using the program. Thinking I'm the toughest guy out of over 10,000 people would be a VERY BOLD statement. Thinking I'm the toughest just because I'm the instructor would be like Bill Belichick thinking he was best football player on the Pats.

9.Thou Shalt Be Humble
You never know who you're teaching so don't presume to have more life experiences than the people you teach. I have taught Secret Service Agents, Feds, Former Special Operations Military and a guy named Zoltan who hung sheetrock for a living (no kidding, first day the beast picked me up - right off my feet). Just because someone comes to you to learn what you have to offer, it doesn't mean that they don't know anything.

10. Thou Shalt Not Over Correct
Students can only fix one thing, per session. When you start picking on everything they do they will become self conscious and they will shut down. After one correction you will sound like static to them. Keep your corrections to the BASICS. Let them do a lot of repetitions. The body, once sufficiently tired, will naturally seek the path of least resistance and become more efficient. Remember, they way one person does something is not the same exact way another person does something. Let them figure it out, they always do.

BONUS COMMANDMENT
11. Thou Shall Always End on a High Note
Time with you should be a positive experience and it's important that your students last memory of class is a good one. Help them to be successful in their last task of the session. Again, the point is not to show them how to fail, but to show them how to succeed.

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Another great article from my Self Defense Company! Damien Ross

I will make this clear - Chokes are NOT essential for self defense. They require skill, strength and endurance. They also demand that you are grappling - where size and strength of your attacker are factors.

I get it. Submissions are great. They are one of the few things you can do in practice and know that IT WILL WORK. If your partner taps - it worked.

However...if want to use chokes for self defense then this is something you MUST understand.

Don’t bet your life on the “tap”or it will be “taps”.

Getting your partner to tap is training is EASY, but effectively choking someone who thinks you’re trying to KILL THEM is not only incredibly hard – it’s almost completely different.

Training Partners generally tap because they’re uncomfortable. Yes, the choke hurts, but it’s a far cry from being knocked unconscious or asphyxiated by someone who has no intention of stopping.

When you actually apply a choke on the enemy he will PANIC and become extremely violent. This will require you to adjust your technique and use a lot more strength and stamina than you can imagine. Remember, you’re experiencing SNS activation which will cause your adrenaline to kick in…that will give you a boost, but won’t last forever. So you must prepare for this fact.

So here are some tips on getting your chokes self defense ready…

Hide your pretty face. One of the first things the enemy will do is try to grab your face. So you need to bury your face (where varies on the type of choke). You don’t need to see him, you know exactly where he is. Now if you’e training the chokes from SDTS Module 3 you’ll already know how to use the top of your head to apply more pressure to the choke – so you’re good.

“Base” yourself. The enemy is going to thrash around…a lot. Having a good base and balance in any position (standing or ground) is essential to riding out his resistance.

Use bodyweight. Depending on the type of strangle, you should always use your legs, bodyweight and even his bodyweight to increase the force of the choke. 90% of people who learn strangles use mostly arm strength and that’s because you can get away with it with a training partner who taps when their neck gets sore. This is why we use the training dummy in SDTS Modules 3 and 12. The training dummy allows you to put full weight and power into your choke.

Train BEYOND the TAP. This is MANDATORY for using a choke for self defense. You need to dig deep and train 5X the normal amount of time you would normally need. Do not be shy…grab it and grind it.

Shake, Rattle and Roll. Violently shaking the enemy while you’re applying the technique will enable you to keep him off balance, disorient him and cause additional trauma to the brain.

Tenderize him. Never apply a choke on a “fresh” target. Whenever possible try to strike first, or use a concussive entry technique to take a little fight out of him and disorient him in order to create an opening for your choke. The problem with sport is that you can’t do this…even in MMA, attacking the back of the neck is prohibited (as it should be) but that’s one of the first places we target!

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Using chokes for self defense requires a different set of skills in addition to the “normal” techniques. Keep in mind that if your strangle is “off” a degree or two in the street, it will make your life exponentially HARDER. This is why we don’t advocate using strangles as a primary means of self defense.

The hierarchy of self defense is:

Escape
Weapons
Striking
Gouging, ripping and biting
Grappling
Grappling is the lowest rung on the ladder because it requires the most skill, size, power and fitness. It will take you weeks to learn a choke – but literally minutes to learn a strike and less than that to use some pepper spray.

Until next time…

Train Honestly,

Damian