Police Self Defense Techniques
What is considered the best all-around method of self-defense? I'm looking into becoming a Police Officer!
If there isn't a considered "best" all around self-defense technique what do some of the techinques consist of...For instance Jui Jitsui is the art of grappling and submissions, what are the others specialties?
Every person here is going to have a bias, and not a lot of them are thinking Law Enforcement wise.
First off you will learn a lot of stuff in the Academy that does help some.
But honestly Judo, Sambo, and Jiujitsu would be best. Aikido has some great pain compliance stuff but it takes a while to learn and be effecient at, and you are going to learn them in the academy anyway.
You want to stick towards stand up grappling. BJJ isn't really great on the take down aspect, and many of it's moves are placing you in a position for litigation. You have a tazer, a baton, back up, pepper spray and a gun. Use of Force contiums will dictate what you need to do, and quite often breaking someone's arm, or choking them out when you have a tazer is generally going to get you in trouble.
In general the most practical application of skill you will have to use will be stand up grappling and takedowns. For this Judo, or wrestling would be best. Unfortunatly Japanese Jujitsu while it has the throws and the locks, most places do not train realistically, against resisting opponents and you never get a chance to fully grasp it. Not to mention it was done with armor in mind, many of the throws are too exagerated for practical use.
While it has some extra pain compliance techniques to help get someone in cuffs, you will learn all those in the academy and through experience anyway.
Judo will give you a great headstart, practical experience in taking people down and controlling them. Alive resistant training, and a plethora of solid, widely effective techniques.
Unfortunately no other art specializes on this the same way Judo does and it is one of the more effective arts for Law Enforcement. I have known WAY more Law Enforcement officers in Judo than any other art.
I admit my bias, but show me another art that has the same amount of stand up grappling, solid take downs, and ground control without the use of striking, joint locking, and allows you to focus on this aspect at full speed and intensity against people who are trying everything they can to prevent you from doing your technique.
Striking is widely unacceptable, joint locks carry a heavy chance of actually injuring a suspect then being effective, especially one with a high pain tolerance such as someone drunk or on drugs. Pressure points in short do not work on someone with high pain tolerance. You are left with needing to control this person, with minimal risk of injury to yourself or the suspect.
Mystic Chi knockout bullshido aside. You need realistic, proven, effective stand up grappling and controlling. Judo has more throws, takedowns, understanding of leverage, and pinning techniques than pretty much any other art around. You have the ability and knowledge of the same amount of chokes and joint locks as BJJ, but also the ability to control a person at a greater ability then BJJ as they are limited in their pins.
In short you want to put a guy down, get the cuffs on him, or put him down, control him, and wait for back up and then put the cuffs on him.
Or just tazer him.
Either way, the fluff you would learn in Aikido, or JJ you basically will get in the Academy. What is really needed is practical experience in applying realistic techniques against people who are fighting with all they got. Judo gives you that, most Aikido, or Jujitsu places don't.
Apparently BJJ, and MMA help as well at least according to this article:
http://www.tallahassee.com/legacy/special/blogs/2007/10/ultimate-fighting-champion-teaching.html
Police Self Defense Techniques
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Name some good self defense approaches?
I am interested in learning something effective ( both defensive and offensive ), cost effective ( as in no long years of study ), and easy enough to learn.
I'm thinking along the lines of techniques the Police may use. Kick boxing or the like is not out of the question. It would be nice to learn something at home via DVD...lessons are not ruled out.
well I would say try kelly wordens stuff http://www.kellyworden.com/index.html but nothing can beat a GOOD teacher
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