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Les Bubka
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Pressure Building Exercise

Hi all

In our club we use pressure and frustration exercise shown to me by police intsructor from Poland.

This exercises is designed to raise the level of frustration and adrenaline. Rules are that defender stands with closed eyes, and cannot respond to attacker till the third person gives him/her sign. This exercises is very frustrating due to inability to deal with attacks and also not knowing for how long we have to wait.

Kind regards

Les

Iain Abernethy
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Thanks for sharing Les! We do a similar thing where the person is standing with their eyes closed and an unknown number of people gather around them. They can’t respond until first touch. They can then open their eyes and work out the plan from there. It’s a relatively good way to get the adrenaline going, and to partially simulate the unknown of an ambush attack.

My concern with the drill shown here, is that it could condition people not to act when they should have. I accept that I am invariably viewing it out of context though because it is part of a wider training program that is not shown in this short clip. But taken in isolation and divorced from context, that is the thought that crossed my mind. The same drill with verbal provocation (as opposed to physical actions) and the person themselves deciding when to act could achieve the same goals?

All the best,

Iain

Les Bubka
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Hi Iain,

You are right if used often it can condision people to do that, I view it as a small drill not used regurally. Shouting drill you mentionet is great, exercises from my clip is just for change of stimulus to "anger"students :)

Kind regards 

Les

Iain Abernethy
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Les Bubka wrote:
I view it as a small drill not used regurally.

That’s what I mean about not knowing the context :-) It happens to me all the time where people view a video and make false assumptions without knowing the wider framework. I’m therefore mindful of that when talking about things others post.

Every drill will have some “flaws” that are deliberately introduced for safety or to ensure the practise of an identified area. We then seek to “correct” those “flaws” by balancing them out with other drills; which will have their own “flaws”, but not the same ones as the initial drill.

As an example, we may spar with protective equipment; and if we do that all the time we come to rely on it. So, we spar without the equipment too, but it that case more control is needed to ensure safety (we have swapped one “flaw” for another, but balanced them out overall).

Only real is real. Beyond that, we are swapping around various “flawed” forms of realistic.

I can certainly see how the drill can be a useful part of the mix within and wider training program and I appreciate the clarifications.

All the best,

Iain