Combat Flow – Players – Advanced Defensive Tactics Institute

Combat flow players are a series of principles that are the foundation of creating and increasing power and penetration in any action. They provide a set of methods that create space and time to get to safety and take control of an confrontation situation. These ‘Players’ can be used either by themselves or together to generate increased power and impact.

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Combat Flow – Principles 1min

This is a general introduction to martial principles and the different elements that you can use that create additional power and apply pain to a potential aggressor, to make them reconsider a possible attack.

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Combat Flow Players – Breath 2min Sample Lesson

It is surprising to see that most people often hold their breath when doing something, such as a self-defence move or a strike, which results in a lack of power. In this lesson we look at how to use breathing to create power and control.

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Combat Flow Players – Stance 2min

Stance is strongly related to your balance and by having your feet apart and knees bent you can move as needed to be able to direct a possible attack to stay safe.

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Combat Flow Players – Grounding 3min

Grounding, or rooting as it used to be called, is a way of being able to secure yourself to the ground during any aggressive situation and surprised a possible attacker to give you time to get to safety.

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Combat Flow Players – Speed 3min

Understanding how speed can be used to be able to control and create unbalance and pain in a possible attacker is important in providing time and distance to get to safety.

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Combat Flow Players – Linking Vessels Energy 3min

The next player is linking vessel energy. It links the energy flow from the conception vessel (front) to the governing vessel (back) in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and increases your power levels.

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Combat Flow Players – Yin Yang 3min

The Yin Yang principle helps with how we develop in action an increase in power and control. It uses a soft-hard approach that provides additional power generation and transfer.

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Combat Flow Players – Cross Body 3min

Next is the cross-body player, which is looking at going from one side of the body to the other. This provides an increased response in movement and pain from any action to the body providing a better chance to stay safe.

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Combat Flow Players – Balance 6min

If a body doesn't have balance, it doesn't have power. By taking a potential attackers balance away, you take away their momentum and create confusion in their thinking and concern of possibly falling over giving you time to get to safety.

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Combat Flow Players – Vibration 3min

In this lesson we are looking at vibration which provides you with the ability to confuse the potential attackers brain with multiple input signals and greater penetration of any action into an attacker’s body.

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Combat Flow Players – Direction 4min

The next player is direction and it provides you with a way of being able to put more pain into an attacker quicker and get a better response from them in terms of taking their balance away and taking control.

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COMBAT FLOW PLAYERS - LEARNERS GUIDE HANDOUT

Learners Guide Handout

A “Combat Flow Players” program learners guide with an overview of general principles as well as transcriptions of all program videos for the course through the materials resource tab.

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Combat Flow Players Quiz

5min

This quiz covers the lessons from the Combat Flow Players course. There are 10 questions in total which are primarily multiple choice selected from the various videos in the program.

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About Instructor

Paul

Paul Mracek is an 8th Dan Black Belt in Taekwondo, Taekwonjitsu as well as an International Coach – Defensive Tactics and Open Circle Fighting Method and a Reiki Master Teacher. Paul holds qualifications in Meditation, Mindfulness, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Bowen Therapy, Sports & Recreation, Training & Assessing and Coaching. He has developed defensive tactics syllabus for the Security Industry since 2011 for nationally accredited courses for thousands of students; as well training and assessing industry instructors. In addition, he is the head instructor at Nutaofit Martial Arts Academy since 2016, continuing the tradition of servicing the local community in the Bayside suburbs of Melbourne since 1985.

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Combat Flow – Players

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COMBAT FLOW PLAYERS - LEARNERS GUIDE HANDOUT

About Instructor

Paul

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