{"id":1232,"date":"2010-05-24T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T07:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2010-05-24T08:39:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T07:39:25","slug":"a-day-doing-spear-a-self-defence-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/24\/a-day-doing-spear-a-self-defence-course\/","title":{"rendered":"A day doing SPEAR &#8211; a self defence course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great day yesterday at <a href=\"http:\/\/crossfit3d.com\/\">Crossfit 3D in Manchester<\/a>, attending a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyblauer.com\/\">SPEAR self defence<\/a> course.<\/p>\n<p>SPEAR is a self defence system that&#8217;s based on using your basic human physiology to make yourself and your stance as strong as possible, and I can honestly say, I was amazed how doing <strong>something as simple as opening your hand and splaying your fingers<\/strong>, can massively increase the strength in your arm.<\/p>\n<p>We did hours of drills and exercises to show specific traits and strengths of the SPEAR system, always with a view to what happens in the real world and in a real situation.  It was intense.  It was physical.  It was bruising (but then <strong>I was paired with a professional rugby player<\/strong>, so it was never going to be easy grappling with someone who does it for a living!). But it was educational, insightful and a lot of fun.  <\/p>\n<p>But most of all, I am now better equipped to handle myself in a real situation than I was before.  If you get the chance to have a go, <strong>I&#8217;d definitely recommend a SPEAR course<\/strong>.  Here&#8217;s a quick intro video that gives you a flavour:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpv_videoc\">\n<div class=\"wpv_self\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skarcha.com\/wp-plugins\/wpvideo\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">WPvideo 1.10<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpv_titleauthor\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpv_video\"><object data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/shr2pYs6d2I\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/shr2pYs6d2I\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great day yesterday at Crossfit 3D in Manchester, attending a SPEAR self defence course. SPEAR is a self defence system that&#8217;s based on using your basic human physiology to make yourself and your stance as strong as possible, and I can honestly say, I was amazed how doing something as simple as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,215],"tags":[366,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-1232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-self-defence","8":"tag-self-defence","9":"tag-spear"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}