P.W.C. stands for: “Progressive Ways of Combat” and is a functional system with the main goal of protecting one’s own or someone elses life during an actual aggressive attack.
Though before we get on with the system you should learn to understand that all styles have certain advantages, in technique, strategy or in principle. Most styles though, offer only little closeness to reality, concerning real self-defense in the streets, because many procedures are too choreographed and too controlled.
This leads many who practice martial arts to believe that the attacker in the streets will attack in the same way as he himself would.
I know this sounds silly but it’s true! I know this sounds silly but it’s true! Only few styles train differently, but we do! We have exercises for spontaneous reactions and have developed real modified contemporary attacks which helps the user of P.W.C. to develop self-confidence and which can be used in everyday life. For example the Panic-Attack-Drill and other resistance-exercises. These shed light on how each and every one of us react when we are put under stress.
The point is finding out what really works before wasting your time perfectioning something that doesn’t work.
Simplicity works!
The more technique, finesse or inner calmness is required for a technique, the less it will work in an actual resistance-situation (real attack). But you don’t have to believe what I say. Create your own Panic-attack-situation by letting your trainingpartner or even better a martial arts layman attack you and see for yourself if your traditional techniques work out. Control requires good techniques and Armlocks , Nervestrikes require inner calmness and a very high technical expertise. You also have to regard that different people have different levels of pain tolerance. Drugs for example often reduce the sense of pain and an experienced attacker can also tolerate a lot more pain than a normal person. The message is: don’t be deceived by marketing or choreographed Demos/Videos. Pain complaince techniques as the police use them, are only suitable as self-defense to a limited extent, besides the police isn’t allowed to show readiness to violence.
When shit hits the fan, do what you must! Trust your gross motor abilities, like fist head- and palm-, knee-, shinbone- and elbowhits etc. These gross motor processes can easily be integrated into a reality based framework.
Remember: P.W.C. is not a style or a martial art but a system for self-defence, and remember that a system always consists of single components that when put together make a whole. I am often asked what styles P.W.C. is composed of.
My answer is: no style! From an athletic physical point of view there are influences from boxing, wing chun, non-classical gung fu, chu fen do, brasilien jiu jitsu etc. most of all it’s simply the use of instinctiv natural movement, which makes it easy and fast to learn as well as efficient. Remember: style doesn’t win fights! This gives many martial aritists a hard time. Individuals win fights with these qualities: determination, fear management, tolerance of pain, physical, emotional and mental capability etc.
Hence the same old question: Which style is better? Idiocy! Don’t judge, analyze! Ask yourself: is it a sport, maritial art or is it real self-protection/a self-defense system as (for example) P.W.C. is?
