Protectics Karate Jutsu

Protectics Karate Jutsu was created by Robert Agar-Hutton in 2001. It was based on his then thirty one years experience of martial arts. Robert took all the aspects that he liked from the various arts that he had studied. Discarded the things that were not 'combat effective', then reintroduced some of those things with a 'label' that says 'For training use only'.

Example: It's generally NOT a good idea to kick to head height, but if you include high kicking (practiced within an individuals personal capabilities) that in training as an exercise, then it means (for almost everyone) that it improves your range of motion and flexibility. So, you will still be able to kick to knee or groin height even when you are 'old or cold' - have you noticed that rarely in a street fight do attackers give you time to stretch out and warm up.

P-K-J is a living art, which means that both Robert and his senior students continue to refine and change the system. Looking to improve it's effectiveness and to increase the speed at which it can be taught and understood. This is done by combining the best of established training principles along with findings from areas like Neuro Linguistic Programming and Accelerated Learning.

Robert originally started teaching P-K-J in March 2001 and had students who were already experienced martial artists in their own right. This meant that they were quite willing to say "But wouldn't it be better if..." and "But that wouldn't work, because..." Which helped make (and keeps) P-K-J 'honest' and makes sure that what we practice is actually as effective as was planned.

Furthermore Robert regularly trains with top international martial arts and self defence instructors so as to continually refine and improve P-K-J. All P-K-J students are offered the opportunity to train with these same instructors.

P-K-J is a principles based system of martial arts - that doesn't mean that there are no techniques to be learnt, there are lots of techniques but... Principles are more important. One principle well understood is worth a hundred techniques. Why? Because if you understand the principle the technique is easily derived. If you do not understand the principle then in a combat situation you have to try and remember the technique that is 'right' - this takes too long!

One of the basic principles of P-K-J is called "Thanking your attacker". As an attacker attacks, they are actually giving you an immediate opportunity to defeat them. The seeds of the counter move are implicit in the attack. Once you understand this it means that your defence becomes an automatic reflex.

Another basic principle is "Redundancy". This means that any technique that you perform should ideally work in more than one way. So a counter attack that works by coming off of the attacker's line of attack also gives you an escape route. A 'pressure point' attack may also provide a simple mechanical advantage (say by bending a joint in a way that is favourable to your attack) so that if the 'pressure point' doesn't cause pain then the mechanical effect still helps you. A 'block' that stops you from being hit also causes your attacker pain so that they have to slow their attack or a 'block' (that stops you from being hit) unbalances your attacker so they can't follow up. Some aspects of Redundancy are very simple and some quite sophisticated, what matters is that everything that you do should have multiple effects on your attacker.

Next is "MFO" Multiple Finishing Options - There are times when an attack will require you to seriously harm an attacker in order to ensure your own safety but there are also times when an attack can be SAFELY neutralised without doing any long term harm to the attacker. MFO is the underlying principle that lets you decide on the required level of response. Put simply, it's not good to win a fight if you end up going to prison! Also, what if at a family party 'cousin George' got drunk and took a swing at you. Using some 'ultra deadly kung fu' move might look 'cool' but would not be appropriate. Instead a simpler Protectics Karate Jutsu technique that allowed you to neutralise the attack without hurting 'cousin George' would be appropriate and would also result in a better long-term solution.

P-K-J is "The Martial Art for 'real' people". Many martial arts are designed for people who will train and train and train and train until they become super-fit super warriors. Now that's fine however a true martial art should be available for your self defence needs with a relatively little amount of training. It should also allow for the fact that you may be tired or unwell or that you have been busy at work and haven't done any training at all in the last month. In other words the training should do its best to quickly and permanently instill into your psyche and your long term memory and your muscle memory those attitudes, principles, techniques and habits that will help keep you safe in a physical confrontation.

It is those attitudes, principles, physical techniques and habits that P-K-J will teach you so as to maximize your safety.

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