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Self-Defense Classes

Tao Martial Arts 

Split Second Survival (SSS) Self-Defense Program

 

Monthly Self-Defense Class

third or fourth Saturday, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm

(Each month the Saturday may vary because of other obligations)

Cost is $25 dollars per student

Open to anyone age 18 or older,

of good character,

and who wants to learn how to protect themselves and their loved ones. 

(If any mature teenagers want to participate we will need parent and instructor approval)

 

 We will be teaching the SSS concepts and methods starting with the basics and progressing through the content as the group learns. We will also address specific topics or scenarios as requested by the students attending that class. 

Self Defense Class Dates:

2024

Classes will resume after our yearly seminar

January 26th-28th, 2024 - Annual SSS Seminar

 

*Dates Subject To Change

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What is Split Second Survival?


Split Second Survival (SSS) is a self-defense system based on escaping and surviving a confrontation, specializing in multiple assailants and weapon disarmament. Other self-defense systems teach you how to fight against an attacker; SSS will show you how to survive amid several. While other styles of self-defense are based on a one-on-one scenario, viewing only your immediate opponent as the threat; Split Second Survival teaches you how to respond to multiple threats, armed or unarmed, large or small. There are no punches, kicks, knees, or elbows used in SSS. We do not teach arm bars, wrist locks, or takedowns. Using any of these defense techniques will cause you to focus on your technique and the single attacker, which locks you into a pre-supposed pattern.

SSS teaches that to survive a confrontation is to understand that there is always more than one attacker. If a person is engaged in a fight, their focus is on the fight, not on the other person coming from behind. SSS uses unique open hand strikes to the soft tissue areas of the attacker, employs passive escapes, soft blocking techniques, and subconscious redirects in the form of neural response to physical stimulation. All of these techniques will easily flow into ending the confrontation or to your escape. There are no set or standard moves in SSS similar to forms, or patterns, used in martial arts. SSS uses concepts that can be employed in many of the same ways against a person, or persons, using a knife, firearm, or any other weapon.

WTSDA Students Please Note:

THIS CLASS IS NOT SANCTIONED BY THE WTSDA AND DOES NOT COMPLY WITH WTSDA RULES AND REGULATIONS, AND WTSDA MEMBERS ARE ADVISED ACCORDINGLY.


©Split Second Survival (SSS), it’s logo, name, and intellectual property are copyrighted by Meghan G Illguth, 2018

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