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Edged-Weapon Self-Defense System Developed by Michael D. JanichAn
Edged-Weapon Self-Defense System Developed by Michael D. Janich
In the magazine's two-part cover story entitled Bleeding Edge, Michael Janich explains his Martial Blade Concepts system of edged-weapon self-defense. The article, which details the history and evolution of Janich's system, explains that MBC is not about "knife dueling" but about "learning to fight effectively with a knife" so you can apply your skills to the broadest possible set of defensive situations. It also emphasizes that, unlike many classical knife systems, MBC focuses on fighting with the knife that you actually have when you're attacked and the importance of decisively stopping your attacker through proper targeting. These concepts are demonstrated with detailed technique pictorials featuring Mike and his long-time student and training partner Matt Zavakos.
Part 2 of Bleeding Edge will appear in the October 2009 issue of Black Belt Magazine and will focus on Janichís acclaimed Counter-Blade Concepts system.
Michael Janich and Stay Safe Media are proud to announce the release of Practical Unarmed Combatives Volumes 1 and 2 : Critical Skills of Damithurt Silat. The product of more than 30 years of research and analysis of the world’s best fighting arts, Janich’s devastating system of empty-hand self-defense focuses on understanding and exploiting the “physiological potential” of simple, instinctive, gross motor skills. In this way, even novice students can quickly learn a few basic tactics and have the ability, confidence, and understanding to successfully defend against a broad range of common street attacks.
Although Janich has shared selected elements of his system on the hit TV show The Best Defense, the full scope of this incredible program has previously only been taught to a few, select private students. Now, Practical Unarmed Combatives Volumes 1 and 2 makes this revolutionary system available to every student of self-defense. Featuring detailed, step-by-step instruction and breathtaking production quality, these videos set a new standard in personal defense instruction.
THE BEST DEFENSE - Season One, featuring Michael D. Janich is now available from Stay Safe Media
Michael Janich’s skills with throwing weapons and blowguns are well known. Recently, they attracted the attention of the producers of The Discovery Channel’s Time Warp show, an extraordinary show that specializes in capturing events in super slow motion. Janich traveled to Boston to the Time Warp studios and demonstrated his skills with the blowgun and in throwing knives, tomahawks, and improvised weapons ranging from ballpoint pens to tire irons. The episode, titled “Hot Stuff and Cold Steel” airs June 10, at 8:00PM and 11:00PM EST. To learn the secrets of the techniques demonstrated on Time Warp, check out Janich’s instructional videos Making It Stick and Breath of Death.
Visit the Discovery Channel website to view Time Warp: Knife Throwing Physics
Michael Janich has begun a new blog The MBC Training Blog, featuring insights and training tips about the Martial Blade Concepts system of self-defense.
From Mike's first posting:
"The purpose of this blog is to provide a resource through which I can share tips, insights, and suggestions regarding all training related to MBC, CBC, and the related disciplines I teach and practice. In particular, I will focus on sharing experiences that I have when training with my private students and seminar training partners with the goal of helping readers enhance their own training efforts."
From the DownRange.tv website:
The Best Defense is something new under the sun, a series that focuses on all aspects of personal defense from basic awareness to surviving violent encounters. The show features Michael Bane, author of the landmark TRAIL SAFE personal defense book, as host, with top trainers Michael Janich of Martial Blade Concepts fame and Rob Pincus, creator of Combat Focus Shooting, as regular co-hosts. Each show begins with a cinematically filmed scenario — a carjacking attempt, a home invasion, danger at an ATM — then takes the viewer step-by-step into dissecting that situation to clearly show better and safer ways of resolving the situation.
Michael Janich has been a member of the International Close Combat Instructorís Association (ICCIA) since the early 1990's. This elite organization is comprised of combatives instructors and military close-combat instructors from all over the world. In December 2008, the ICCIA held a convention and an in-depth training event at the school of Geoff Todd, one of the organizationís founders, in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Janich, along with several other ICCIA instructors, presented detailed instruction in all aspects of close combat, including unarmed combatives, restraint and control tactics, knife and counter-knife tactics, and close-quarters shooting. A detailed article on this landmark event can be seen in the current issue of Fight Times on-line magazine by clicking on this link: International Close Combat Instructors' Association Convention and Training Workshops
With the help of Stay Safe Media, the official source of Michael Janichís instructional
books and videos, Janich has recently posted several brief how-to videos on You
Tube. These videos are intended as instructional supplements for the many MBC
students around the world, as well as insights into the MBC system for those who
have yet to train with us. Please click on the links below to see these latest
instructional insights:
MBC Guerrilla Video Volume 1: Concepts
MCB Guerrilla Video Volume 2: A Brief Analysis of Heaven Six
MBC Guerrilla Video Volume 3: Balancing Skill and Intensity
MBC Guerrilla Video Volume 4: Damiturt Silat: Aspects of Trapping
