first off, I apologize for my contribution to the thread-drift in the other topic you started.
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Originally Posted by Hivoltage
I am not wanting to learn martial arts, nor do I have the time to.
...I am not a fight starter so I dont need to know in depth fighting skills.
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Frankly, these comments worry me. While I can't read your mind, it seems to me that you are looking for a "quick fix" to a problem that is anything but simple. You're asking for someone to say "buy this DVD/book and it will tell you exactly what you need to do."
There are a couple of problems with this:
- "...I am not a fight starter so I dont need to know in depth fighting skills." I would submit that it is because we are not typically the ones who initiate action (in other words, the BG often makes the first move) that we have to train so much. We have to be able to successfully negotiate the initial attack and then counterattack.
- As far as wanting some "chokes, arm-bars, etc." to deal with a problem, I don't feel that this is the best approach. It is my opinion that manipulation techniques (joint-locks, etc.) are less intuitive, take longer to learn, and require more effort to maintain than striking techniques. In other words, when dealing with someone who's not cooperating, it's easier to beat the crap out of them that it is to use the cute little joint locks. As a result, I feel that trying to learn manipulation techniques from a video is a sub-optimal course of action. There are things that will only come across if you have an instructor there to make corrections and show you the fine points of the techniques.
As to my recommendation for DVD's, I'll repeat my suggestion that you should check out Kelly McCann's combatives series (I posted the link in the other thread). The material demonstrated is simple and straightforward and covers topics including: Striking, some basic takedowns, takedown defense, some groundfighting techniques, basic stickfighting, knife defense and gun disarms. Now when I say "basic," I don't mean "bad," I mean techniques that are easy to learn and have a pretty good chance of success in a violent encounter with the average attacker.
I'd also HIGHLY recommend "Practical Unarmed Combat" by "Soutnarc" (my review of this DVD is in this section of the forum).
good luck.