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title: "Syllabus | Real-World Self-Defence | Shockwave Jujitsu Ipswich"
url: https://www.shockwavejujitsu.co.uk/syllabus
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# Syllabus — Real-World Self-Defence

Progressive mixed martial arts syllabus covering prevention, striking, grappling, ground-fighting, and weapons awareness.

## Prevention

Self-defence is primarily a legal term and depending on how you handle an altercation will determine whether you lawfully defended yourself or you'll be going to prison for assault. Accordingly, you'll learn the importance of pre-emptive situational awareness, proactive de-escalation and tactical retreat.

- Threat assessment
- Verbal de-escalation
- Non-verbal de-escalation
- Defensive signalling
- Eyes on / Hands up
- Hard target / Soft target
- Fight / Flight / Freeze
- Group dynamics
- Distance management
- Improvising obstacles
- Pre-planning escape routes
- "Don't be there"

## Striking

You'll learn to remain calm under the pressure of an advancing assailant using hands, feet, knees, and elbows, to strike, unsettle and unbalance your attacker as you position yourself to safely escape. You will learn the principles of mobility, distance, angle, timing, pacing and mental fortitude.

- Sparring
- Closed hand strikes
- Open hand strikes
- Pressure point strikes
- Elbow strikes
- Blocking & Parrying
- Front kick
- Roundhouse kick
- Side kick
- Back kick
- Knee kick

## Escapes, Locks, Chokes & Throws

Extending the unbalancing skills you've learned from striking, you'll develop instinctive responses to close-quarter entanglements, learning to adjust your techniques to work on assailants of varying sizes. You will learn the principles of posture, balance, level, angle, timing and improvisation.

- Escape from head lock
- Escape from chokes
- Escape from bear hugs
- Shoulder lock
- Elbow locks
- Wrist locks
- Redirections
- Restraints
- Body throws
- Hip throws
- Leg throws

## Ground-Fighting

Most prolonged fights will end up with someone being knocked to the ground. Beginning with carefully controlled drills, you'll develop techniques to decisively incapacitate your assailant whether you're on top and on your back. You will learn the principles of position, weight, control, pressure, making and taking space, timing, and precision.

- Grappling
- Full guard
- Half guard
- Open guard
- Butterfly guard
- Guard passing
- Side control
- Scarf hold
- Full mount
- Back mount
- Armbar
- Arm Triangle
- Leg Triangle
- Guillotine
- Chokes & Strangles
- Kimura
- Americana
- Leg locks
- Sweeps
- Hip escapes
- Takedowns
- Back breakfall
- Front breakfall
- Side breakfall
- Forward roll
- Backward roll
- Technical standup

## Knife & Weapons Defence

For those situations where you can't simply run away from an armed attack, you'll learn how to avoid taking damage as you work to subdue your assailant with the appropriate level of intensity and finality. You will learn the principles of anticipation, distance, minimising attack surface, timing, decisiveness and aggression.

- Defend knife attack to chest
- Defend knife attack to stomach
- Defend knife attack to throat
- Defend knife attack to back
- Defend knife attack with leveraging hand
- Defend lunging knife attack
- Defend downward knife attack
- Defend slicing knife attacks
- Defend random knife attacks
- Gun disarms