Training Description






WHAT NOT-ME! TRAINING WILL PROVIDE YOU: 1. An understanding of the psychology and stages of violent assault. 2. Show you what it takes to survive an assault from a physically more powerful attacker. 3. Give you a specific strategy, tactics, and techniques that will help you survive an assault. 4. Provide you with core knowledge of self-defense that you will be able to apply to further self-defense training. HOW NOT-ME! WILL ACHIEVE ITS GOALS A major limitation on self-defense training is the amount of time available for instruction. Therefore, Not-Me! begins with the most critical elements of self-defense and as time progresses ends with the least critical elements. All self-defense situations may be categorized as life threatening, potentially life threatening, or not life-threatening. Therefore, Not-Me! first instructs you how deal with life threatening violent assault and ends with dealing with minor non life-threatening situations. WHY NOT-ME! DOES IT THIS WAY Once the student truly understands what it takes when an assailant who has her pinned on the ground and is mercilessly striking her, it is fairly easy for the student to deal with such things as a wrist grab from an obnoxious but relatively harmless individual. The reverse is not true. Typical martial arts or self-defense training begins with the wrist grab and progresses slowly towards more serious assault. The rational behind the standard approach is that the student must first master the basic techniques before moving onto more complicated techniques. While this type of training works for learning almost every type of sport or skill, it is not true for self-defense. Self-defense is not a sport or a skill. Learning self-defense is about bringing out the desire to hurt and injure your attacker in order to provide you with the opportunity to escape. Self-defense is about communicating to your attacker that you will not be victimized and will utilize any means necessary to protect yourself. WHY NOT-ME! DOES NOT TEACH THE TRADITIONALY WAY By first teaching you how to escape from wrist grabs or minor intrusions your mind becomes conditioned to associate self-defense with a complacent mindset and a cooperative partner. Not-Me! wants to condition your mind to bring out your violent mindset and to be prepared for a vicious attacker. Because Not-Me! assumes that your attacker is physically more powerful than you, Not-Me! puts the greatest amount of emphasis on training the mental component of self-defense. HOW NOT-ME! TRAINING BEGINS Not-Me! training begins by demonstrating that in a violent situation, the most serious injuries occur after the target of the violence is overwhelmed and submits to the attacker. This differs from a fight or mutual combat. In a fight, if one combatant is defeated, that person usually submits to the other combatant in order to avoid further injury. The assailant who truly intends to cause harm will see this physical and mental submission as an opportunity to escalate his attack. Not-Me! will show you how not to submit. According to the Not-Me! MBE Principle, when a person submits he or she has assumed a defensive posture. This posture is characterized by the subconscious mind, the protective emotional mode, and an immobile body. The good news is that if the person is able to maintain the violent mindset, that person will not submit. In simple terms, if you really want to hurt someone, your desire to inflict injury will override your natural instinct to submit even if you are physically overwhelmed. Not-Me! training will also demonstrate that the second most dangerous time in a confrontation occurs directly before violence begins. It is during this period that the target of violence is most vulnerable. Once the actual attack is underway, the target is fully aware of the danger. But unless the target has a strategy to handle the pre-assault phase, he or she may easily fall victim to a devastating surprise attack. The assailant may be able to land a full force punch or strike to the head of the target resulting in immediate unconsciousness or incapacitation. WHAT CONSTITUTES A TYPICAL NOT-ME! CLASS? Each Not-Me! class is intended to incorporate the elements of the Not-Me! strategy of Decide, Deter, Disrupt and Disengage. Therefore the classes will create situations in which the student will experience the calm/controlled, protective, and violent mindsets in conjunction which physical and verbal tactics. That means that students will be striking with full force both training targets and instructors both on the ground and standing up. Students will also learn to yell with full emotion and will engage in realistic scenarios designed to simulate potentially violent and violent situations. WILL I FIGHT THE PADDED MAN? No. Not-Me! students will not participate in a final “victory fight” against an instructor completely covered in protective equipment. Not-Me! training is based upon realism and is not intended as a false empowerment class. Fighting against a padded man encourages the use of closed hand striking, knees, and kicks. It does not allow the student to use her natural weapons such as biting, clawing, eye gouging, poking, finger flicks, and back hand strikes. The intent of Not-Me! training is not to make the student demonstrate biting or eye gouging, but to create a situation where the student demonstrates that she has to obtain the mindset necessary to perform such an act in order to defend herself. NOT-ME! IN A NUTSHELL Not-Me! is a system of communication. It speaks directly from your inner being and states that you will not be victimized and your will not submit. You will injure your aggressor if he does not cease his aggression immediately.
					DECIDE with Emotion in Violent mode.. . New Cane for man who fought off attacker Seattle Times Feb 06, 2007 . Last Wednesday afternoon, Jones hollered and whacked Paul Pearson on the head with his cane after Pearson allegedly dumped lighter fluid on the back of Jones coat at Third Ave and Union Street. “I’m not a tough guy; I don’t bother nobody and nobody bothers me,” he said.” [Jones] “But if somebody is going to harm you, you got to harm them.”

					DETER, DISRUPT . Woman fights off sex attacker BBC News . She managed to scream then bit the man’s hand after he pounced on her as she sat on a bench near Thames Mead Farm in Thames, Oxfordshire.

					DISRUPT, DISENGAGE . Woman fights off attacker at beauty spot Edinburgh Evening News Mon Sep 18, 2006 . The 31-year old was attacked near Blackford Pond but managed to punch her attacker in the stomach and kick him between the legs before he fled.

					DISRUPT, DISENGAGE . Gutsy woman fights off attacker New Zealand Police July 13, 2006 . “She put up a really gutsy fight, hitting out at the attacker with a set of house keys she had been carrying in her hand,” Detective Thornton said. “The offender fled....”

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