Now I have spent years training, studying, reading about, researching, watching DVDs, going to seminars, and working to learn all I can about the Martial Arts and in resent years Reality Based Self-Defense. I don't claim to have created anything (maybe a few drills and sequences of moves) but what I have done is taken what I have learned and experienced as a police officer, martial artist, instructor, and competitor and tried to bring together all the things that overlap. The skills that seem to make the most sense and are the easiest and quickest to learn and reproduce. As I often say "you can only bend an arm so many ways." All self-defense systems overlap in some way. You are dealing with the human body, they all work and move the same, you can only be attacked so many ways. So why not take and boil everything down as much as possible and make it as simple as possible. That brings us to Tony Blauer's S.P.E.A.R. System. The spear in and of itself as a skill is simply an initial move. The over all system and subsequent skills go much deeper, but for our purpose we use the spear as Mr Blauer describes it simply as a bridge to our next move. Now understand the spear is not a unique skill. You can find the same "technique" in Kempo karate, Filipino martial arts, Haganah, Jeet Kune Do, and I'm sure others. However, the difference is the SPEAR System applies this one move against most every attack, rather than simply as a single move against a single attack. Watch this video and see how this skill can be applied as an instinctive, initial response, that gives you the chance to counter with strikes or whatever you need to do. Give me your thoughts.
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