This time in “Books I Love” section I’m going to include one of my my favorite DVD  Systema: Escape from Holds DVD with Vladimir Vasiliev. By the way, I love his all DVD’s.

It is very common fact that most assaults start with a vicious grab or choke. You need to know how to escape instantly and defeat the attacker completely.

Vladimir Vasiliev of the Russian Special Operations Unit is a Co-Founder and Chief Instructor of the Russian Systema combat art.

If you want to combine relaxed movement with devastating effectiveness, then Systema is for you you.  Systema bypasses the sport techniques and memorizing of patterns. Vasiliev can give you more ways to break free than you can ever imagine because he had many real life experiences to escape from such ruthless holds, savage strangulation, such injurious locks and lethal grips of conflict.

In this DVD Systema: Escape from Holds DVD with Vladimir Vasiliev you’ll learn to control practically everything : One & Two-Arm Holds, Wrist & Elbow Locks, Throat Grabs & Guillotine Chokes, Bear Hugs & Nelsons, Rear-Naked Chokes, Takedowns, with one or two assailants, from any stage of hold application.

In this presentation, Vasiliev takes you to a real class at his school to disclose how his students master Escapes in a PERFECT TRAINING PROGRESSION. No experience needed and this is the beauty and specialty of his style. Just watch, learn and absorb as Vasiliev makes you unlockable, unpinnable and unbreakable.

His techniques are very easy to learn. You can  start with your partner at home. In Systema there are no artificial movements. On Vladimir’s YouTube videos people comment that  he is more dangerous than Bruce Lee. He could disarm your gun or knife and kill you with your shoeless.

You can find his all work on his website russianmartialart You may also like his other DVD’s: Strikes, Beyond Physical, Dynamic Joint Breaks, Defense in Confined Spaces, Car Fights, Fighting in Water, Gun Disarming, Knife Fighting, Personal Protection etc.

I have got the collection of his all DVD’s and I watch them for hours. I’m big fan of Mikhail and Vladimir and watching them in action is great learning and very exciting experience. My nephew (8 yr) learned many moves from these DVD’s including joint break, disarming and escape from chokes.

Watch some clips of Vladimir and Mikhail on YouTube. I never come across such simple , easy and clear techniques as Systema.

Hay friends, if you really love your family and friends then encourage them to learn self defense techniques. Old martial art is not much useful now days. Find out something like ‘Systema’ or ‘Krav maga’, because it is designed for the modern man. Learn some basic and simple moves. Learn how to block kicks and punch, learn knife defense and weapon disarm. You can find lots of videos on www.youtube.com . Learn how to Use simple things as weapon like your car keys or pen because carrying a weapon with you is illegal. There are also lots of videos about ‘women self defense’. Watch them carefully and practice with your friends and family members.

Here are some useful keywords when you search on youtube.com

1 Krav Maga
2 Systema
3 Ballistic striking
4 Nintaijutsu
5 Ninjutsu
6 Knife defense
7 Gun disarm
8 Women self defense
9 Bas Rutten street defense (The BEST!!!, must watch)
10 ChosonNinja
11 Police tactics
12 Mikhail Ryabko (IMP)
13 Vladimir Vasiliev (IMP, the best)
14 Val Riazanov (IMP)
15 Vadim Starov
16 Spetsnaz
17 Pressure points
18 Human weapon
19 Choke releases
20 Escape from Holds and Grabs
21 Weapon disarm

Watch these videos and remember that knowledge has organizing power, if you watch these videos regularly then automatically your brain will get programmed and if you practice these skills then it will become your muscle memory. If you don’t want to join any martial art school then at least learn from these videos. Watch these videos again and again and again. Many techniques are very easy. And in complicated situations easy is right. Within two or three months you will become very confident and skillful. You can learn many things simply by watching and visualizing. Practice in your mind, imagine worst scenario and how you will defend in this situation.

Learn offensive self defense.

If you watch 1000 videos you will learn at least 100 moves just by watching, and if you practice then you will become unstoppable. Just choose simple and easy things, avoid complicated moves or high kicks. Practice lower kicks, knees, elbow. Practice using ordinary things as weapon as I told above. Nasty people will not understand your concept of non-violence and the concept of non-violence does not work in the streets or in the warfare.
If you can not able to protect your family then you are not eligible for marriage or romance!
If you are not prepared to protect yourself then you are unfit to survive. Don’t be stupid.
It is stupidity to live blindly. Open your eyes. God will not protect your kids,  you have to teach them how to protect themselves. And you must teach them self defense before teaching non-violence. Remember, tactical violence, strength and power comes before non-violence.