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  2. Tueller Drill - Wikipedia

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    The Tueller Drill is a self-defense training exercise to prepare against a short-range knife or melee attack when armed only with a holstered handgun.. Sergeant Dennis Tueller of the Salt Lake City Police Department wondered how quickly an attacker with a knife, or other melee weapon, could cover 21 feet (6.4 m), so he timed volunteers as they raced to stab the target.

  3. Jujutsu techniques - Wikipedia

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    The emphasis on Samurai combat skills was degraded in preference to systems that could be practiced by anyone of any age for healthy physical education, sport and self-defense. Because of this new emphasis, grappling skills have been adapted to safe sporting environments, where gouging, biting, and other unsporting techniques are banned.

  4. Hand-to-hand combat - Wikipedia

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    A 2014 study found that, amongst US soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and 2008, 19% reported the use of hand-to-hand techniques in at least one encounter, in a variety of circumstances and contexts (such as close combat, prisoner handling, crowd control and security checkpoints), supporting prior research that indicated ...

  5. Kodokan Goshin Jutsu - Wikipedia

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    Kōdōkan Goshin Jutsu or Kōdōkan goshinjutsu (講道館護身術, Kodokan skills of self-defence) was, before the introduction of the Kodomo-no-kata, the most recent judo kata of Kodokan - being established in 1956. Compared to Kime no kata it is a more modern set of self-defence techniques. Instead of attacks with swords, the kata contains ...

  6. Hapkido - Wikipedia

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    Hapkido emphasizes self-defense over sport fighting and as such employs the use of weapons, including environmental weapons of opportunity, in addition to empty hand techniques. Some schools also teach hyeong ( Korean : 형 ; Hanja : 型 ), the Korean equivalent of what is commonly known as " kata " (or "forms") in Japanese martial arts.

  7. ‘Be bold, be brief, be gone’: Kids can learn self-defense ...

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    That is why the couple is teaching Streetwise Self-Defense to boys and girls ages 7-14 years old. Students of the Merced College for Kids self-defense class learn moves on Monday June 24, 2024.

  8. List of taekwondo techniques - Wikipedia

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    Taekwondo self-defense is known as kinuo and it forms one of the 20 main principles of the art. The self-defense applications would be difficult to score in sparring as they are designed primarily to cause injury or quickly incapacitate an adversary. In competition, self-defense techniques take the format of a demonstration event, much like ...

  9. Blocking (martial arts) - Wikipedia

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    In Korean martial arts such as taekwondo, these techniques are referred to as makgi (막기), with some examples being chukyeo makgi (rising block) and onkal daebi makgi (knifehand guarding block). Some martial arts, such as Capoeira, reject blocking techniques completely as they consider them too inefficient. In Capoeira, they use evasion ...