As you prepare seriously for your next fight, unlike an MMA fighter your contest will not be fought for money or fame; it will be a fight for your life. If impacts become necessary, they should be intense, focused and performed with full power to end the fight quickly.
I would like to share with you how I personally prepared to survive 33 years of policing, which brought with it fights that were started by other people, but that I had a sworn duty to finish.
Here is my training regimen for you to consider, which prepared me to win when words failed:
- Ongoing martial arts training to first develop and then enhance all personal body weapons and control tactics;
- “Thump sparring” while padded making light contact to practice actual combat;
- American one-step-sparring where you and a training partner take turns attacking and defending, with specific trained techniques practiced for repetitions;
- Arranging for and training in an on-going police defensive tactics class;
- Personal fitness training 3-5 times a week;
- Regular sessions on a heavy bag, focus bag and speed bag as a part of that fitness training;
- Shadow fighting/boxing as part of that fitness training;
- Doing knuckle push-ups to prepare fists to survive punches.
To read more tips, see How to prepare for a fight for your life.
