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About A.P.A.
Antagonist Perpetrated Aggression
APA
State of Mind
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Why Most
Martial Arts Techniques Taught Today Won't Work on The Street
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Want something new in martial arts Dallas, something that embodies
the full scope of attack and self defense?
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Have you spent years in mixed martial arts training only to find
your confidence still lacking?
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Are you still facing too many variations in martial arts
techniques to be decisive in the clutch?
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Has your eager search for physical skill and mental clarity kept
you skipping from school to school and seminar to seminar? Or are
you steeped in traditions with no practicality?
If protection’s your pursuit, cover ALL the bases.
No prolonged exchange of blows, No excessive technique variation,
No ambiguity up close.
Close Range, find your angle, control the threat.
And Engage with pure intent…
IT IS NO EASY TASK, IT IS NO QUICK FIX!
INSTINCTS ARE NOT INGRAINED OVERNIGHT
Antagonist Perpetrated Aggression is a unique capture and control
based martial art new to the US. Used presently by Taiwan SWAT and
in employ for over 30 years, this comprehensive training system is
inclusive of all root motions prevalent in any martial art.
System means to effectively and repeatedly transmit logics down
generations with little degradation to integrity. Comprehensive
means to be inclusive of the extremes and subtleties of physical
performance. Embodying both, APA preps for only one thing; the
ability to remain clear in efforts to advance when immersed in
crisis. To approach combat in any other way is illusionary
preparation. APA is the cutting edge; not just a simulation through
exercise with health & fitness benefits.
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1st generation
material
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Intrinsic
goal-driven logic
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Internal reference
for total performance enhancement.
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Reduce all
telegraphic pre-motion.
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Simultaneous
Strike/Protect cycles.
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Learn probabilities
in attack angles
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Instinctualize all
basic weapon trajectories.
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Unique combat ready
meditation technique.
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Know decisively how
to conclude engagements in close quarters.
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Learn how to seize the opportunity
for the strategic advantage.
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APA is not Tae Kwon Do as it is not a sport-prone
combo of kicking and punching.
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It’s not boxing because we operate on a strictly
tactical basis, and don’t exclusively punch.
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It’s not Wing Chun as trapping is merely a
momentary bridging range to primary targets.
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It’s not Judo, Jiu-jitsu or Shuai Chiao because we
don’t focus exclusively on grappling.
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It’s not ground fighting or submission wrestling,
as hostilities are multiple fronts in limited time.
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It maintains the humane concerns of Aikido but
concludes the threat to full completion.
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It’s not Tai Chi as we operate with full contact at
pure acceleration.
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Its not Shaolin kung fu as our adherence is to
scientific principle.
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It is not Kempo karate because our technique
variation is economized.
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It’s not Jeet Kune Do (JKD) as
there is no prolonged back and forth weapon range flow.
APA embodies all
aspects of traditional and progressive martial arts styles, military
and law enforcement applications plus much more! It is not
eclectic, it is pure root, pure mechanics. These aren’t rules made
to be broken, its logic designed for the efficacy of processes. One
way to accelerate, one way to rotate, one way to prep motion, one
way to consistently hit your mark.
When you tap the roots,
you touch the PURE SOURCE
and awaken THE INSPIRATION.
If you want to adapt to all potential threats, you’ll want all the
tools in one bag. Follow this simple logic; if you examine all
styles, there are similar features pervasive in each tradition...
Kicks, punches, traps and throws. They arrive through a series of
repeating trajectories. The fundamental mechanical principles of
APA optimize all basic skill motions. Each existing style typically
focuses only on proficiency in a specified range determined by the
length of the weapon used. Even mixed martial arts and free style
approach misses many crucial elements necessary for thorough
training as the eclectic approach breeds either a constant exchange
with the ‘favored’ weapon or a constant in and out thru 3 basic
proximities. APA accesses all combat technology through common
roots.
If you then predict from this list of root weapons (8 fists, 3
kicks, that’s it!) the likelihood one of three elevations will be
targeted in closed range, your response is a simple selection
from a modest apportion of angles relative to your attacker. He
must fall within this clockwork of positions, left or right of a
dynamic center reference line. Here with a united attack/defense,
one is no longer reactionary to external stimuli and able to
facilitate control. This is the domain of APA tactics.
The psychology
influences all energy in the human machine, power and speed
included. Every action is a choice. Quality choices are a matter
of having a clear concept, a simple matter of the discernment of
available options. The search is reducing these choices to THE MOST
EFFECTIVE solution from fundamental
probabilities. The foundation for the arts is establishing firm
fundamentals. They represent the vast distinction between a good
and a great fighter, not the quantity nor complexity of technique.
The method of this pursuit is offered in APA.
The body is a
magnificently engineered machine of skeletal levers and fiber-thin
piston pulleys of banded muscle all governed by the physical laws of
motion. The mind is a chemo-electric based bio-computer. A simple
adjustment in mechanics and logic can profoundly optimize a transfer
of energy. A teacher programs these attributes for more effective
functioning in order to activate latent potential. Science guides
us. It helps us dissect events at their most elemental level;
understand the processes that govern the interaction of parts, unite
with new insight and ultimately shape reality to our needs.
APA is
a system in every sense of the word as it is learned through keen
observation, analysis and refinement of process.
Mechanics is one
of the basic divisions of physics. Concerned with the motion of
objects, understanding the basic factors of physical dimension,
mass, acceleration, time, conservation of energy, inertia and
momentum is critical to being able to deliver a precise quantity of
kinetic energy. This separates window dressing from the crux of the
crisis as we are in constant search for Understanding using
the most elemental laws to predict the broadest set behaviors.
Why? So that intention equals result. Why? To help increase the
probability of control in a crisis, for control is not only the
humane solution, it is the swiftest resolution to antagonism.
The most
fundamental and indispensable principle driving the system is
simultaneity.
It is
intrinsic to all intelligence, philosophy, action and as such
undermines the timing of any one beat per measure, overwhelms the
opponent’s psyche, and enhances one’s ability to process quicker
than the eye actions.
When you Are on the path,
you know what needs to be done.
The martial arts
are of a discipline with thousands of years of thought, knowledge,
myth and mystique. People from every walk of life are compelled to
drink of this vast ocean of knowledge. The why and the wherefore
that this fusion of peace and violence steeples so many souls is
perhaps just as much a mystery. With few exceptions, there is a
certain grace to those who embrace the oldest of traditions and an
undeniable character and air of sophistication about those who
venture such pathways. Personally, I found the courses taught in
this ‘invisible monastery’ provided pieces to the cosmic puzzle;
namely the physical, the psychological, the intellectual and the
spiritual. The journey has indeed been so deeply enriched by this
choice as to be immeasurable. But it is a path without material
reward, a pursuit of character development which precludes being the
meanest on the block. Anyone can accomplish this with little
discipline. The art in martial arts, it seems to me, means killing
not required.
Some
styles have changed little over the course of history, while others
have evolved to meet the demands of hostile environments. Present
day contact theory has come to the end of its rope in its style
blending and patchwork philosophies. One can not predict the
combinations and mixed martial arts to come. It is as difficult to
forecast as is the potential music produced from 7 notes. To employ
analogy, APA comprises those 7 fundamental notes. With it all music
can be learned to be played.
APA is a highly
specialized close quarters combat system. It was conceived to
address all performance thresholds, essential for spontaneous
conflict.
Each training
phase has a clear cut sequence to aid in achieving objectives.
APA’s strict adherence to the science of mechanics sources the roots
to motion in all martial arts. As nothing is faster than
instantaneous, nothing is more practical as a training standard,
thus all mental and physical conditioning pushes the simultaneity
threshold.
APA is
explicitly neither style nor tradition of the martial arts, but
rather a combative science. The program is a means toward the swift
resolution of conflict, a guideline for crisis training, and a
highly spiritually driven path.
From zero prep in an unexpected hand
to hand encounter, APA diagrams an approach to total control.
The process is both:
Pulling mind G’s
The founder
of the APA, Master Instructor Chris Mar, did something quite simple
and created something very unique. He broke down every style into
its primary elements; stances, rotations, foot work, fists, kicks,
protective postures and sourced its common denominators, the shared
characteristics in all combat motion. He continued in his problem
solving path to devise an alternative to lethal force, neither soft
nor passive, but rather a radical aggression in quiet packaging with
safety concerns toward even the opponent while orienting toward full
conclusion of the conflict. In cases of crowd control, this is the
physical extraction of the human catalysts of aggression.
He taught me the awesome responsibility of choice in action and
speech. How a single word can hurt or heal, how an expression or
the lack of one can influence antagonism, what it means to be means
over ends, and that there is more to achieving mastery than sheer
force. The mind of the soul on fire can move worlds with a lever of
words and deeds. He is a true master in every reasoning of the
word.
If you hunger after in a manner of practice that will revolutionize
combat PT, are a dedicated, conscientious and patient individual, it
would indeed be my honor to share with you what Master Instructor
Chris Mar has imparted to me. Though many have traversed through the
library and museum that is the multiversity of his soul, there are
only a handful of accredited instructors and presently only one in
the US, an appointment I bear with great pride.
CHALLENGES INCREASE AS SKILL AND UNDERSTANDING GROWS
APA is a
shift in consciousness that will transform spirit by advancing
character as the two are synonymous. I must state unequivocally
that the process of training in the APA system is unlike anything
you have ever seen, heard or participated in before. It is every
way as way, by the book through the roots and embodies the essence
of inter-discipline cross training.
The APA program is finishing
school for the 21st century combatant and benefits any
ensuing pursuit.
The prerequisites to discipline:
1) THE DEDICATION
2) A METHOD
3) A GUIDE
Size, age, gender, and experience are not conditions. You bring
the will, and I’ll provide the methods.
Please
contact us to coordinate an event at your
location; specialized training for your walk of life. We can design a
curriculum specifically for your personal or professional needs. Because
of the programs built-in universals, APA can accommodate for any basic,
intermediate and advanced self defense and personal protection training in
any environment.
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APA
Self Defense System
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Revised:
January 04, 2009
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