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Try to maintain the stance demonstrated in the previous chapter: your hands should be held up, chin tucked in, elbow tucked in, knees bent, and so forth, as you move. This will help you develop an efficient and effective self-defense stance and practice good defensive tactics. Once you’ve got your feet moving in the right direction pretty consistently, you’ll only need to repeat this drill for a few minutes a month—to reinforce your good street-combat movements.

I do this drill often with cadets, as well as in-service personnel, and it greatly enhances their ability to move efficiently in the combat scenarios in which we train them.

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Hand Strikes

Strikes Versus Holds

The trend in law enforcement these days is for police administrators to stress the importance of physical restraint techniques in dealing with a combative suspect. My experience—in working on the street and in custodial environments (like county jails and prisons) and in training law enforcement officers for the last eight years—has taught me that restraint techniques are extremely hard to apply in police work. Compared to striking techniques, they require countless hours of practice before an officer will be effective enough to use them in real world policing situations. Aikido, for example, is a Japanese martial art that includes many restraining techniques. Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido, would practice his techniques thousands of times before he ever used them in combat.