Striking Targets key to criminal Self-defense training

Everything Revolves
Around Striking Targets

Well, obviously we thought so much of the importance of targeting that we actually incorporated it into our name… Target Focus Training. It really tells you exactly what we’re all about. We’re all about hitting specific targets on the human body.

Basically we said, “okay, what’s the most effective way that we can use this tool of violence?” Then we said “who are we going to be using this tool of violence against?” Well, we’re going to be using it against another human hell bent on harming us. And what is the one constant in all humans? That constant is… we all possess a central nervous system. See, there are anatomically weak parts of the human body that we all possess, regardless of our size, strength or physical skill, we all possess these anatomically weak areas that simply cannot be hidden, cannot be protected, cannot be strengthened through physical conditioning or any other methods. They’re just inherent weaknesses we all have.

And when we really looked at it using the wealth of data that we have from the medical field and sports trauma field, we basically categorized approximately 70 areas of the human body that provide you with over 200 targets where these weaknesses occur. Now when we are able to inflict injuries to these specific areas, it results in a trauma known as a spinal reflex reaction. And what is that? It’s an injury so severe that regardless of whether you want to or not, you unconsciously respond to that strike.

We’ve all experienced it. You touch a hot surface; your hand automatically gets yanked off that hot surface. You don’t make the decision to pull your hand off. It’s made for you. Your nervous system kicks in, it gets up to about the top of the spine and then a protection mechanism is triggered off on the body to cause a reaction to pull that limb away and protect it.

And what’s interesting is that the brain is immobilized during that protective mode the human body enacts in trauma. We saw that and we said “Boy that’s a constant.” That’s a constant throughout the whole human body. If we can create these types of traumas in the human body, then we can start predicting what’s going to happen in a violent situation against another human being.

And that was it. This gave us our road map to destroying another human. It’s something that we could use to take the chaos out of violence. Something that we could count on regardless of the shapes and sizes, regardless of the gender of the person, regardless of whether or not they’re on drugs or in a heightened state of some sort or even if they have a high pain tolerance. These injuries that we inflict are objective, meaning they don’t require a person to feel pain; they don’t require strength and they don’t require great physical ability.

But they do require targeting, and targeting is just something that cannot be stressed enough. Targeting, I would argue, is probably the most overlooked and yet most critical aspect of self-protection. Most self-defense systems, most martial arts and most combat sports at best just pay lip service to targeting.

Yet targeting alone yields the biggest impact. If you just concentrate on nothing other than targeting, and you became excellent at targeting but kept all your other skills where they currently are, you would have a quantum leap in your ability to protect yourself.

In the past 15 years the greatest leaps in military technology have actually been improvements in targeting. It is so critical the military can now actually put less munitions in a smaller area and get better results.

And that’s exactly what we’re having you do in Target Focus Training. When we show you the target list, when we have you sit there and methodically go through the human body and find these target areas, what were doing is giving you the shortcut. Were giving you a verifiable way to use violence and get results now! Results that are instantly verifiable.

What’s great is you can also tell how you’re doing because you understand that if you don’t get the result you wanted, you didn’t hit your target. If I kick somebody in the groin, I’m expecting to see the low back arch out, the butt arch out, the chin jut out. If I don’t get that, if I don’t see the hands go to the groin area, I know I missed my target. Why? I didn’t get that specific reaction… a reaction that is 100% universal across the human race.

If I didn’t get that reaction, I missed my target. Therefore I know to go to another target immediately. It’s just a very simple, efficient way to get the most out of the tool of violence, that’s why targeting is so important.