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"BlitzDefence" is a teaching method within the WingTsun system during which WT students are mentally and physically prepared for the most frequent forms of physical confrontation by means of appropriate WingTsun techniques. Grandmaster Kernspecht has researched the characteristics of "realistic street-fights" for decades, and has coined the term "ritual combat" on the basis of his accumulated experience. The BlitzDefence programmes supplement the WT teaching system in such a way that even beginners are able to cope well in such dangerous situations after only a short while.
The BlitzDefence programmes emphasise the following: - Gradual defusing and reduction of a mutual threat situation - Communication and interpersonal relationships - Reliable recognition of all the opponent’s attack preparations - Controlling one’s own fear, verbal deception and distraction - Uncompromising and determined seizure of the necessary initiative at the last moment, in the form of a few rapidly learnable WT counter-attacks which leave the opponent with practically no chance.
What makes BlitzDefence so indispensable? Firstly, without doubt the "trigger" principle. Certain gestures or sentences are practiced in combination with a blow or combination of blows until merely repeating the gesture or sentence will cause the trained technique to be performed by reflex action. This might be "How is your mother?" or "What are you doing this evening?", but possibly something unexpected such puckering up the lips to blow a kiss!
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Another strength of BlitzDefence training is the repeated practice of the verbal phase. Here the student learns to use his/her voice, body language and spirit. For nothing is as important as "communication"! It is this that can already decide an encounter in advance. The aim is not to use some new form of rhetoric or to shout loudly, but to say the right thing at the right time to prevent a threat. And finally the selected WT techniques are what breathes life into the BlitzDefence programmes. This collection of individually linked techniques is the framework for successful self-defence and self-assertion. Programmes 1 to 3 contain pure "forward defence", programmes 4 to 8 deal with so-called "defensive tactics" and the "special programmes" are learned in the advanced programmes 9 to 12.
Controlling fear BlitzDefence contains a form of training which gives fear no chance to grow within us or, worse still, take control in the first place. The germ of fear is unable to ripen because we do not give it a chance to. Symptoms of "fear" in a potentially dangerous situation: - Rigidity and the urge to visit the toilet - Trembling knees owing to an enormous release of adrenalin - A dry mouth, causing the urge to clear the throat - Mental blockage as areas of the brain are disabled by "stress" - Heightened muscle tone
Fear can give rise to a fight or flight response. Fear is the result of not-knowing, or not being able to control. Not-knowing can be remedied by information, the inability to control by training. What are the views of "users" who are confronted with this every day, either because they pas what they have learned on to students or because they need to use it themselves? Or more simply: " Does BlitzDefence do what it says? "
Source: WingTsun World
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internal
or external visual, auditory or movement stimulus is linked to a
reaction or situation which can then be initiated regularly from
then on. A trigger is a stimulus-reaction link which extends the
classic Pavlovian conditioned reflex concept. 