Chuntian Academy International

Remember the " Six- "P" s "

P-rior P-reparation P-revents P-iss P-oor P-erformance.

Changing environments, restrictive clothing and unfavorable conditions can compromise your self-defense techniques in a crisis situation.

Instructions

* 1: Prepare for all environments. Do you work at home or in an office building? How much time do you spend in your car? Rehearse "what if" scenarios for those situations where you are most vulnerable to attack.

* 2: Identify changing environmental conditions. Practice how you would adapt self-defense techniques in the dark, on the stairs, in the snow, on the beach, in the closet.

* 3: Practice self-defense techniques in clothing appropriate to each environment. How does a side kick feel in your business suit? How does a bathrobe restrict mobility? Would you be too modest to leave your robe behind to escape if grabbed?

* 4: Identify weapons in the environment. What do you have available in your car, your office, your home? Rehearse first and second weapon choices in each environment.

* 5: Prepare a checklist for each environment. Do you have enough gasoline? Is the cell phone battery charged? Do you know where to go to escape or to hide? Have you identified vulnerable scenarios and prepared for them? Have you identified potential weapons?

Tips & Warnings

* Practice self-defense under a variety of environments and conditions. Place emphasis on confined situations and poor conditions to prepare yourself physically and mentally.

* Buy a cellular phone and keep it with you. At minimum, you'll have the ability to call the emergency number (911 in the U.S. /119 in Japan) if you're being followed or if trapped in your car.

* Escape the attack if at all possible. Property of any kind is not worth risking your life for. If you use a weapon, be sure the attacker cannot take it and use it against you.

* Remember that, as you scan your environment for weapons, your potential attacker could be doing the same thing.

* Find a Real World school that teaches versatile, direct and not overly complicated to apply techniques that feel natural and they work.
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Our Philosophy

Why Chuntian Academy ?

NOTE: If you can not join a CAI class or seminar, find a training partner and together join CAI's Distant Learning Program. If your in a big city which has several martial art schools, sample Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga, Wing Chun and Phillipino Kali-Escrima first.
Remember most other schools are tradition or sport based, and the techniques may look cool in the school but could be very deadly on the street...TO YOU!
It's better to spend 5 years looking for the right teacher than to spend 10 years with the wrong one.