Designing your own combatives system.

[Koshu]

You missed the part about teaching methods, not techniques being taught in my post, didn't you? . . .

You're right, I did, sorry. But in general, wouldn't sound teaching methods enhance the ability of a student to identify the biggest threat from the adversary (whether an open-handed or weapon attack)? Jason was badly blindsided in both episodes and seemed overly locked into his paradigm*.

. . . Eddie has a structure with his classes, several warmups, then some drills that relate to the warmups, then training with 100% resistance. You can do that for grappling, you can do that for striking (of course toning down the force when necesssary). The point is he actually thinks about what he's going to teach, and plans out lessons several weeks in advance so it gets taught well. A lot of instructors don't have a system like that. Also, it's not necessary to follow Eddie's system, but if you're going to teach anything you should look at it and see what he has done. . . .

This sounds great Robin, really does. And I do realize this was the key point you wanted to emphasize in your post above (my additional commentary to follow notwithstanding).

. . . Also, it should be obvious, but Eddie teaches Jason Jiu-Jitsu, not any of his standup. . . .

Where I come from, and given that this is in a combatives, not sport-grappling thread, jiu-jitsu begins standing and may end up on the ground.

. . . No idea who does, but that's not something Eddie teaches. Most MMA fighters have more than one coach. Since Jason has some Escrima training (this was before the Escrima episode), it makes more sense to focus on his Escrima teacher than on Eddie in the example of him not handling the knife attacks.

The Marines skewered Jason on the ground (paraphrased quote: "I didn't know he had a knife", then he looked around as if pleading to the ref).

*The paradigm I referred to earlier appears to be an MMA grappling paradigm, vs. an FMA paradigm.

[Koshu]

Drat . . . I see Robin's on vacation for awhile. Oh well.