Willem De Thouars in Maryville, TN OCT 22 & 23

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If you missed the August workshop you now have a second chance!

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How to Build Bone Breaking Power with Standing Bear

The first skill worked on and learned is how to use the power of gravity to drop an enormous amount of whole body power on your opponent. At more advanced levels it is easy to use the skills learned in this kind of fighting method to break an attackers arm.

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How to Throw a Shock Kick

Shock Kicks are a valuable tool in your arsenal and are one of the basic kicks in Clear’s Silat. The shock kick is intended to be a surprise leg attack at just the outside edge of punching range. The shock kick has whole body power behind it and is quite powerful.

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26% off 2 New Silat DVDs – Trapping & Grappling

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26% off until July 31st Silat Grappling Package – $200 $147 2 DVDs | Total Run Time: 235min | Format: NTSC DVD-R This package contains 2 DVDs: Phase 1 Vol 12: Trapping & Grappling (part 1) Phase 1 Vol 13: Trapping & Grappling (part 2) These two dvds contain in depth instruction on Silat trapping [...]

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Phase 1 Vol 13: Trapping & Grappling (part 2)

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Phase 1 Vol 13: Trapping & Grappling (part 2) – $100Run Time: 128min Format: NTSC DVD-R Click Here to save over 26% until July 31st! This dvd picks up where Phase 1 Vol 12 left off with 2 hours of instruction on escapes and counters to grappling. Class 37: Escapes (continued)

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Phase 1 Vol 12: Trapping & Grappling (part 1)

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Phase 1 Vol 12: Trapping & Grappling (part 1) – $100Run Time: 107min Format: NTSC DVD-R Clear’s Silat Trapping & Grappling Class 35 Body vulnerabilities Class 36 second or less grapples Class 37 Escapes (part 1)

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Willem De Thouars is coming to Maryville TN

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Uncle Bill has over 60 years of experience in Chinese Kun Tao, Indonesian Silat & high level Tai Chi. Saturday Topic: Kun Tao Silat Sunday Topic: Tai Chi & Internal Arts When: Sat & SUN August 27 & 28, 2011 10 -1 & 2:30 – 5:30 PM Each Day Cost: $250 for the weekend or [...]

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The Lion’s Roar – Ancient Tibetan Fighting Sound

Hen and Ha are sounds that you sometimes hear mentioned as being the secret sounds of Tai Chi. The sounds are originally from Tibet and have spread all over the Far East and down into Indonesia and Malaysia. In my own research on the matter I have found that the only place where the sounds can be commonly found in the martial arts today are in Indonesia and Malaysia.

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Silat – Sleepy Eye, Wide Eye and Looking Down

Sleepy Eye, Wide Eye and Looking Down are 3 of the beginning visual training methods in Clear’s Silat.

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Catch Full Speed Punches out of the Air

One of the classes in Clear’s Silat Phase 1 is how to Catch Full Speed Punches out of the Air. This is a timing and perception training class much more than it is an application class. In other words, it is not that we Catch Full Speed Punches out of the Air and hold the attackers punch while making some maniacal B movie laugh as the attacker falls to their knees and melts away at our feet.

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New Silat DVD Phase 1 Vol 11

Silat DVD

Become faster and more accurate as you learn to fight by feel. Prevent an attacker from getting close to you and still do damage to them. Stop an attacker in the tracks with these power full strikes. Learn to analyze an attackers fighting method and attack their weaknesses while destroying their strengths.

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Action Beats Reaction Problem & Self Defense solution

The Action Beats Reaction Problem is actually on your side most of the time in a physical altercation if you are the attacker / offending party. But, as stated in my last post in America we are desirous of a self defense method where we have the legal, moral and ethical high ground as well as being able to competently defend ourselves.

This puts the average person at quite a disadvantage because it forces most of us to react to an action that has already been taken by an aggressor.

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Free Street Tactics DVD ($50 Value)

Free Self Defense DVD

you will learn practical offensive and defensive principles of the open hand and how to combine them for swift, fluid and powerful movement.

You will also learn the situational strategies need to take these skills out of the classroom and effectively employ them in real world self defense.

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Action Beats Reaction – Self Defense Principle

Action Beats Reaction is a fairly simple principle to understand and apply. If two people are within reach of one another, in a stationary position, the one who moves first wins.

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Kun Tao Silat – Flip Kicks & Head Butting

Two other basic techniques in Kun Tao Silat that are included in the Clear’s Kun Tao Silat curriculum are Flip Kicks & Head Butting. There are many other techniques and methods. These are simply some of the basics that we specifically teach along with the Clear’s Kun Tao Silat Basic 8 Set in our system of Kun Tao Silat.

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Kun Tao Dragon 8 Move Set

The Clear’s Kun Tao Silat Basic 8 Move Set utilizes a loaded position that capitalizes on compression and forward body motion to over run and go into and through the opponent. To begin the…

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Clear’s Silat Youtube Rentals!

We have recently been approved as a youtube partner. This means we can now offer online video rentals. We only have a couple short videos available at this time. However you can look forward to a lot more great content being added over the next few months. Visit our youtube channel and subscribe to stay [...]

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Save over 20% on the New Silat DVD

Silat DVD Phase 1 Vol 10

Learn to defeat Thai Boxing. Learn the fastest way possible to hit 3 times per second. Easily destroy common Elbow, Knee & pressure point attacks. Learn to Combine the Upper & Lower Body Arts. And much more…

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Kun Tao Silat Intro

Many hundreds of books could be written and filled regarding Silat styles, Kun Tao styles and the interaction of these two extensive arts commonly referred to as Kun Tao Silat.

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Programming an Attacker

Programming for fighting purposes is simply the idea of getting an opponent used to something and then doing something different so that it catches them by surprise.

There are quite a few different ways to program and catch someone…

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