Close Defense System Offers Children's Classes

Children Defend Themselves

One of the greatest things a parent or guardian can do to help a child become an independent, successful adult is to teach them awareness of their own bodies and teach them how to become hard to hurt. The Close Defense System's first level of accomplishment is just that: Help the student become hard to hurt.

We teach children how to handle themselves to try and avoid the dangerous situation to begin with. However, when it comes to actual physical contact that could cause harm to a person, we teach our students how to be hard to hurt and manipulate and escape as soon as an opportunity presents itself. If a child becomes hard to hurt, hard to physically manipulate or move, then that child has an advantage over almost everything that could come at them in the physical world.

And the confidence provided by being able to successfully defend themselves in the physical world carries over into the digital and emotional world as children become more confident in themselves.

Classes Begin 2 October 2014

To this end, the Close Defense System is pleased to announce its first ever children's classes to begin on 2 October 2014 at 6:00 PM to last for one hour (until 7:00 PM). The class will include training in how to handle the types of attacks statistically most common in a fight and how to become hard to hurt.

Summary

• Date: Thursday, 2 October 2014
• Time: 6:00PM – 7:00PM
• Location: A New Day Spa (Basement)
  3975 S Highland Dr.
  Salt Lake City, UT 84124
• Rates: Available upon request, with the first class free.
• Ages: 8 and up

More Information

For more information, please phone us at either (801)903-7021 or (801)347-6690.

Welcome to the Close Defense System

Close Defense System and its Components

Welcome student to the Close Defense System (CDS). Instructor Casey Clayton, the system's founder, teaches this system to students 16 and older on Tuesday nights from 6:00 to 7:00 PM at 3975 South Highland Drive, Salt Lake City, UT. He built this system from many decades of martial art and training experiences combined with advanced, scientific studies of the human body in a medical biophysics program. He uses the bone-muscle-leverage system to enhance a student's natural responses to attacks (dangerous applications of force to a student's body) to help them first to become hard to hurt and then become able to disrupt (or stop) the aggressor from causing further harm to the student.

Casey says that the whole point of this CDS is "...to leave a fight with all body parts functioning as well as they did when the fight began."

Students learn to accomplish this by learning about their own bodies what a "connected" range of motion is in relation to their own bodies and how to respond in real time to their opponent to maintain that connected range of motion. By doing so, the student will greatly increase their chances of not getting hurt.

Come on into class and see what we can help you learn to do.

Personalized Response to the Grab of a Single, Unarmed Attacker

When an opponent (single, unarmed attacker) exerts control over a subject by means of a grab (using the opposed grip of the hand) on clothing, arms, or neck (or anything else) there are a myriad of ways to respond. One could easily respond with a rote set of moves and a technique as taught by one person for whom that worked and that means that you have to move almost exactly like that person and practically BE that person in order for the technique to work. Or, as we worked on tonight, we can each take our own natural response to the attempted exertion of control and modify it through a better understanding of the bone-muscle leverage into a method that is unique to us.

So, tonight, Casey showed how my initial response to just remove the force was a viable option. We worked not to correct WHAT I did, just how I did it. We repeated the method with the attacker just standing still or the attacker is pulling on the shirt. The method we developed from my personal response to the situation proved effective. And, as effective as this proved on Casey, it might not work as well on another opponent.

The biggest thing is that I walked away tonight with at least a reasonable chance of surviving the first part of an encounter with a single, unarmed opponent who grabbed my shirt—a common attack—with a reasonable chance of success.

Am I Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, or Ed Parker? No (and not hardly, I might add), I am R M Emerson Jr. I am only able to do what I can do with my physique. Why should I replicate what an instructor found worked for him (or what my instructor's instructor's instructor found worked for him)? I love the idea of personally building responses to physical force that allow me to not get hurt and respond to what my opponent is doing now instead of what he might or might not do.

I hope maybe that some of you can come next Tuesday night and see if this class is right for you.