Training for Sudden Violence

Rory Miller is theaward-winning author of Meditationson Violence, FacingViolence, ForceDecisions, and ConflictCommunication. He is the coauthor, with Lawrence Kane, of Scaling Force. A former correctionssergeant, tactical team leader, and contractor in Iraq, he now lives quietly onhis acreage in the Pacific Northwest, writing and teaching seminarsinternationally.

• Introduction Forwardby Wim Demeere Acknowledgements Evaluating Drills OS: The One-Step Series OS1: The One-Step OS2: Four Option One-Step OS3: The Baby Drill OS4: Slow Man Drills OS5: Three-Way Coaching OS6: Dance Floor Melee OS7: Frisk Fighting OS8: Environmental Fighting OS9: The Brawl Interlude 1: Biases and Assumptions B: Blindfolded Drills B1: Blindfolded Defense B2: Blindfolded Targeting B3: Core Fighting B4: Blindfolded Infighting D: Dynamic Fighting D1:Dynamic Fighting D2: Sumo D3: The Hole Against the Wall D4: Moving in the Clinch D5: French Randori Interlude #2: Sources F: Fundamentals F1: Maai With Weapons F2: Offlining F3: The Targeting Drill F4: The Lock Flow Drill F5: Initiative F6: Advanced Ukemi F7: Pushing F8: Core Defense GM: Ground Movement GM1: Roll-over Drill Phase 1 GM2: Roll-over Drill Phase 2 GM3: Roll-over Drill Phase 3 GM4: Roll-over Drill Phase 4 GM5: The Wax On, Wax Off of Groundfighting GM6: One Up, One Down GM7: Blindfolded Grappling Interlude #3 Social and Asocial PM: The Plastic Mind Exercises PM1: Animal Styles PM2: Fighting the Elements PM3: The Other IW: Internal Work IW1: Centering IW2: Eating Frogs IW3: The Game of the Stones IW4: Lists IW5: Slaughtering and Butchering IW6: Ethics and Glitches IW7: To Save My Children IW8: The Predator Mind IW9: The Articulation Exercise Interlude #4: Training Open-Ended Skills C: Combat Drills C1: Takeouts C2: Multiman C3: Break Through C4: Bull in the Ring C5: The Reception Line C6: Scenario Training WW: World Work WW1: The Clothespin Game WW2: Ten New Things WW3: Stalking WW4: Escape and Evasion WW5: Counting Coup WW6: Dog Handling WW7: Global Awareness Exercises WW8: Legal Articulation WW9: World Building Exercise WW10: Personal Threat Assessment SC: On Sparring and Competition SC1: Kumite and variations SC2: Judo Randori: Nage SC3: Free Grappling and variations SC4: Jujutsu Randori SC5: Full Contact SC6: Mixed Martial Arts SC7: Competition Interlude #5: The Violence Prone Play Group T: Tricks and One-Offs T1: The Touchstone T2: Hit me as hard as you can" T3: The No-Touch Parry T4: Action/Reaction Appendix:Setting up a VPPG (Violence Prone Playgroup) Afterword: Real SuperPowers

Those of us who teach self-defense have a vital responsibility to ensure that our students can actually use what they learn. The challenge is that we can never know when a student will be forced to apply their skills. It could be today, tomorrow, next year or never. That makes it the instructor's responsibility to make each and every student as competent as possible as quickly as possible. In Drills Rory Miller gives exercises and training philosophy that serve this goal. Some of the drills are mental, because the author recognizes that survival is not just a physical problem. Some are simple, things you can do right now. Some, like scenarios, are on the leading edge of current professional training. There's a lot in this book, and no fluff. Concise, effective, and useful, I cannot recommend it highly enough! -- Lawrence A. Kane, martial artist, author of Surviving Armed Assaults, co-author of The Little Black Book of Violence and Scaling Force Rory Miller has once again provided a master piece delineating not only his well thought out and useful drills for martial arts and self-defense, but providing invaluable insight for teaching martial arts and self-defense skills across the broad range of experience and need. Many of his drills provide more mental and psychological training than physical and, as such, viable to any practitioner from the novice to the expert. His book provides practical exercises building off of his previous books, Meditations on Violence and Facing Violence. -- Jeffrey Cooper, MD, Emergency Physician, Tactical Physician, 6th Dan, Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate Power is the ability to do things. So knowledge isn't power. Just knowing" has no ability to get things done. Knowledge has to be effectively applied to be powerful. That's why this latest book from Rory Miller is so very important; it teaches drills that effectively develop the ability apply many differing skills and attributes. Rory once again shares his hard won expertise in a logical and accessible way.Iain Abernethy, 6th dan, World Combat Association Chief International Coach, author -- Iain Abernethy, 6th Dan, World Combat Association Chief International Coach, author of Mental Strength, Throws for Strikers, and Karate's Grappling Methods The best way to train for a serious fight is full out; however, if you do that, you may break your toys -- or they may break you. If somebody doesn't get hurt, you are doing it wrong. Rory Miller has developed a series of drills that can help. No drill is perfect, but those in this book on how to survive serious mayhem, are effective. Read it, and learn. -- Steve Perry, New York Times bestselling author, Shadows of the Empire