Every seven minutes, a child is bullied. Aggressors are usually known for preying on the weak and unattended and bullying can happen anywhere. While some may believe that bullying only takes place in adolescent groups, it is also a big concern with adults.
Adult-to-Adult bullying can occur through taunting in the workplace or on the street by a complete stranger. The main issue with most adult bullying cases, is that they often lead to unwanted physical contact, leading the person attacked no choice but to defend themselves.
So what do you do when a bully preys on you?
While you should hope that the opportunity never presents itself, you also need to ensure that you are well protected with defensive training techniques from James Sherman Krav Maga.
Celebrity Trainer James Sherman can equip you with the most intense training against bullies that New York City has to offer. Sherman is the Managing Director for Protect in New York and has completed 180 hours of Israeli Krav Maga training at Grand Master Haim Gidon's headquarters in Netanya, Isreal. Through his professional training, Sherman can help you train for the unexpected while being aware of your attacker with a training system that works!
Israeli Krav Maga is the official training system of the Israeli Defense Forces and training techniques can provide you with the confidence and peace of mind you need to defend yourself. Training helps you to build a positive reaction to being confronted by menacing strangers, avoiding conflict, and diffusing difficult situations. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind when training.
- Warm up for 15-20 minutes and start slow by running in place, jumping jacks, body motions, standing stretching, and active release from head to toes.
- Avoid fights, understand your opponent, watch face, see pain, sense aggression, identify strength, power, kinds of strikes, react. Ask, what is the attacker's power? Is attacker bluffing? React to win, but don't humiliate your attacker; honor your opponent, and win with respect.
- When approaching for close contact with your opponent, be sure that on punches and kicks do not extend to 100 percent, which could cause injury and hyperextended joints. Only 98 percent extentions are best.
- Be sure to keep muscles strong through motion and flex strongly at the time of impact.
- Hands lead first, then body. You should pay attention to your body's full motion.
- Train with continuous motion, no stopping between techniques, and pay attention to how you finish each technique.
James Sherman Krav Maga training can help you train your cardiovascular system, and build power, strength and speed for explosive bursts and flexibility. Keep in mind, there is no such thing as a bad or weak student. Everyone has the ability to tap into their full potential, and with the right training, you'll start feeling like the Hulk in NYC. That result is the power of Krav Maga.
