Simple and effective... To coin a frase its "the appliance of science". Train with mick and he asks you to question everything he says, test the techniques and not to take anything as gospel. You won't find a more honest self protection instructor who just isnt interested in building a name a brand or selling his knowledge to make a few quid. Mick has given away absolute goldmine of knowledge completely free on some of the old self protection forum's as well as his own. If you are seriously interested in learning this stuff have a look at some of his old posts and articles.
I love your stuff. I don't even practice/train in any martial arts/fighting regimen. But,I can see that your stuff applies to the most common situations. Brilliant stuff with the shock start and others.
except i dont like hitting my fingers with a hammer! lol. I think of chopping onions and using closed hand and knuckles to guide the large blade knife, also a close index to feed the veggies to the blade.
Best practical combat teacher on the net, hands up (because hands down will get you KTFO). I hope he goes deeper into this, because it has more application than you might think. Particularly when aiming strikes from a loose grappling situation, you cannot always see very well. You can feel where your targets are though, and get used to throw strikes based on that rather than targets you see. Nothing makes someone let go of you like landing a bare handed strike to the right part of them.
Not to speak heresy, but for the first time in my life I understand a tai chi and old school martial arts practice/principle. You touch him, you know him, and he cannot disengage you. There was a game like the opposite of tag. In a courtyard, a room, a forest, can you break the contact of the master? Can you stop him from having a finger on you? And in all of the art and theory, I never saw it until just now. If you're maintaining deliberate contact, you know where and how he is and can use it on him.
Heretic chinese martial arts guy here. Love Mick's channel but occasionally his work feels like he's reinventing tai chi or wing at times. A good example of this is his Engaged Start for striking video, which reminds me a lot of push hands.
If youve got a bit of time on your hand here's a video of a tai chi instructor explaining some of those concepts ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_ECefk8L1l8.html