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This is Book Recommendations Part 23: Something new and a must have – Randy King’s New on-line Violence Foundations course
Yes, an on-line course I kind of broke the “just books” recommendations when I recommend Rory Miller’s DVDs.
I am highly recommending: “Realities of Violence Educational Foundations” by Randy King of KPC Self Defense here in Edmonton, Randy King Live and Talking to Savages.
I have said it before if you want to train for self defence then that requires a study of violence. There is a different violence dynamic when you are dealing with a group. A resource predator wants different things than a process predator. We need to look at what it is, why it is, how it happens and how that affects you – personally and legally. We can’t deal with something unless we know something about it and the more, we know the better equipped to deal with it we are.
Randy King’s has done a fantastic job creating this very professional quality course. The course is all about the soft skills of self defence, a study of violence realities, which means the stuff we should know beyond the physical conflict. Beyond that really fun stuff we all love to focus training on. Because it is not the physical stuff that means this course is not style or system specific.
The course is broken out into seven modules and each module is broken up into small manageable pieces which I found very useful because when I got a free moment, I could complete a section and then go look after other things. The pieces are short but densely packed with information. I loved the progression of information and the logic of it. I liked Randy included video clips of real violence which helped solidify the knowledge being shared.
I believe this course is for everyone.
You may a long-time practitioner and are comfortable with your knowledge and skill level. But even if you have a comfortable level of knowledge in violence this course has the most current information I have come across. It can add to what you know, it can reinforce what you know. It can update what you know.
If you are training a traditional martial art or at a self defence school or an MMA facility and you love the training, but they are not covering this much needed material on the realities of violence. You can cover this vital material without having to change where you love to train.
As an instructor we need to accept that no one person can know all aspects of self defence. The soft skills of violence foundations may not be part of your traditional style or system curriculum, or your research focus. Now it doesn’t have to. This course can give you a solid foundation in Violence Foundations and that may enrich what you are already teaching. You can recommend this course to your students, so they get your great training and this great training. You my even want to take it a step farther and make this course mandatory for your students, or even a requirement to obtain a certain rank or certificate. Do that and I’d bet you could workout a student discount with Randy….
I say well done Randy King and thank you for creating this fantastic informative course – I cannot stress the need to know this material enough and now you have another exceptional way to access it.
Find Randy King’s New Course here: https://www.randykinglive.com/onlinetraining