For martial arts and based on emergency department police assault & tournament fight injury data

Book Contents (213 pages in total)

Section A: Medically relevant outcomes of Street Fights - the data!

“Practical martial arts” defined by medically important injury rates

A1 What is practical in Martial Arts & Self Defense? Use data!

A2 The data on Choking and Strangulation Techniques

A3 The need for Break-Fall Techniques?

A4 Statistics on Grappling Techniques

A5 Statistics on Striking versus Grappling Techniques

A6 Group Assault

A7 Sharp & Blunt Objects as Weapons

A8 Martial Arts “Budo” training - “All roads lead to Rome”

Full contact fighting vs. point fighting vs. & evolution of the

traditional martial arts

A9 A brief evolution of martial arts

A10 Karate as a case study on the history of Okinawan forms, sports martial

arts & their relationship to self defense

A11 Jack of all trades and master of none – inner strength in technique

– karate, kung fu, kick boxing, MMA & boxing

A12 WKF & Shotokan point style systems and their impact on bunkai

& self defense drills

A13 Combative scenario flow charts for fighting

A14 Sports physiology & modern competitive fighting approaches

A15 WKF & other tournament medical reports

A16 Moving beyond just block counter

Section B: The Psychology of Violence – attacker and defender considerations

B1 The Psychology of self-defense and attackers

Psychological Theory behind Self-Defense=

B1.1 The Psychology of self-defense and attackers

B1.2 Importance of preparation and training

B1.3 Dispelling some myths about self-defense

Applied Psychology in Violent Encounters

B2.1 What makes you a target?

B2.2 What are the situations to avoid?

B2.3 Pre-encounter awareness

B2.4 Recognizing the type of criminal

B2.5 De-escalation, not backing down & knowing when to back down

B3 How to use the eyes in the pre-fight & fight:

technique detection & influence opponents

B4 Attitude once an assault has begun – tying ancient budo

philosophy to modern psychology

B5 The stress response to extreme danger & how that effects fighting

capabilities

Section C: Commentary on The Law and Self Defense considerations

C1 Foreword by the primary author, Jason Armstrong

C2 An Overview of law considerations by Adrian Cartland

Section D: The Medical & Physiology mechanisms of techniques that according to

statistics are more likely in street fights.

The mechanics of a knock-out – physiology & medical outcomes

D1.2 The difference of not seeing it coming - “The King Hit”

- the importance of the jaw and neck muscles

D1.3 Rotational force is a key in knockouts

D1.4 The back of the head as a target

D1.5 When the chin is struck directly from the front

D1.6 Knock-out via the temple region

D1.7 Where to strike the jaw and the outcomes

D2 Damaging the jaw bone and jaw joint/hinge

D3 “Ground and pound” – knocking out people on the ground?

D4 Diagnostics to prevent follow-on injury for martial artists after concussion

Striking people in the temple region and other possible skull fractures

Impact & throw derived whiplash

The nose as a target

Injuries to the cheek region

Attacks to the ear

Tooth damage or loss: What to do before arriving at the dentist

Strikes to the eyes

D11.1 Eye injury types related to strikes

D11.2 Detection of incoming attacks & psychological considerations

Throat & Carotid Strikes

D12.1 Blood choke versus air chokes

Striking the ribs & stomach region

D13 Ribs and pneumothorax

D13.1 Striking the liver or spleen

D13.2 Striking the solar plexus, why it hurts & why you cannot breathe

Impacting the Kidney region

Bladder ruptures & contusions

Hematomas - using thigh or calf kick as an example

Section E: Medically relevant issues related to long-term martial arts training

- but not likely to be related to serious street fight outcomes

Elbow injuries related to reverse joint locks

Punching with snap and elbow lockout

- is it the traditional way to do the technique?

“Ude Tanren” – Bone, arm, hand and leg conditioning

Damage to the testicles

Back pain related to martial arts training

- linking it to fighting stances, stretches & everyday posture

Damaging the knee

Broken fingers and toes

Ganglions

Herpes Gladatorium

Staphylococcus Skin infections

Section F: Mapping a curriculum to address your sport & the street fighting data

- a case study with karate compared to modern fighting styles

Considerations in sports & traditional curriculum design to ensure

a coverage of the medically important techniques

Example belt test curricula with a data map to the top 7 street injury types

F1 Relevance to street scenarios while holding to an art’s “tradition”

F2 Curriculum focus versus diversity – evidence based practice (EBP)

F3 A gender based curriculum?

F4 A note on kicks

F5 Drills, Bunkai examples & their relevance to the street

F6 Examples of common kata bunkai trends that are not justified

F7 Sample curricula focused around the Top 7 most likely techniques

- white through to black belt curricula

References

Tables & Figures list

Contributors Include:

Dr. Jonathan Shirley (M.D.), Dr. Matthew gentner (Oral Surgeon)

Dr. Jason Amrstron (Ph.D.), Lee-ann Barkhuizen (specialty nurse)

Dr. Sarven McLinton (Psychology), Greg & Jaki Scovell (Taekwondo & Karate),

Adrian cartland (Lawyer, Karate & MMA)

About the primary author:

In producing this text Dr Jason Armstrong, 7th Dan, has brought together 3 clinical contributors and 3 martial artists. Jason himself has fought in a full contact MMA event in Japan, and has been studying martial arts for 25 years. He has held national titles in both fighting and forms, lived in Japan for a number of years and currently holds a 6th degree black belt in Shito-ryu Karate and a Shihan title.

At the time of authoring the book, Jason worked as the CEO of Medeserv, a medically focused IT company which provided clinicians with ongoing training for practice registration – the company was wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Queensland.