The Science of the System:
Below are some third-party references for the scientific basis of the system.
What matters most is your safety. See ‘Testimonials’ for words from those I have taught personally.
True survivor stories of violence and near-violence are, more than anything, testament to awesome people doing awesome stuff in the face of sudden danger. Those survivors take FULL CREDIT for their safety, because they did it.
I am, at most, your supporting effort…an options facilitator. My chosen system of instruction does have science behind it, from third-party vetting to observed populations of protectors to decades of action-research. Please peruse the SPEAR System’s background and ask me questions as you like.
Do you need to know technical words to protect yourself from sudden violence? No, you don’t. Our drills and exercises sharpen the self-protection tools you already have whether you know the science or not. Students typically do benefit from knowing the scientific ‘how and why’, if they care to learn it.
Expert Reviews:
“The S.P.E.A.R. System is a “total combatives system” that is intrinsically inclined—based upon kinesiology, physiology, neurobiology, and other, natural sciences. Because it considers the application of intrinsic kinesic actions (flinch conversion) from a basic, human response to sudden and close movement (a flinch), the system is considered by Mr. Blauer as “behaviorally inspired—genetically wired”.
— Brian A. Kinnaird, Criminal Justice Professor, Author, Researcher, and Trainer
“The spear system utilizes instinctive motion to effect a combative change in both participants. Its effectiveness is grounded in basic physiology and as a result, although initially apparently simple it is fundamentally as complex as the system it is designed to protect, humans.”
— Dr. Robert Smith, Medical Director, Direct Action Medical Network Alexandria, Louisiana
“This experiment also showed that if we tell the subjects to do the movement that is unnatural to them for example: tell men to flex their arms, their reaction time is considerably lengthened. To me these experiments support the S.P.E.A.R. concepts defined by Mr. Blauer.”
“... we have multiple components which are: motivation, action readiness, action tendency, biasing of perception, cues for cognition and action and the feeling state. Here again much of these are covered in Mr. Blauer`s system.”
“If we want fear response to have an adaptive effect we need to have appropriate connection lines among emotions, cognition and action system. This is well covered in Mr. Blauer's system of self defense.”
— Dr. Eric Levasseur, Independent Physician, Edmundston, Canada
Excerpt from a Direct Action Medical Network memorandum:
“The SPEAR system is the most pragmatically safe way of responding to an attack. It makes sense from the medical standpoint because it intelligently utilizes intrinsic neurological pathways to effectively respond to unexpected attacks in an smoothly rapid way that dominates the opponent from point of first contact. It is used in the real world because it is grounded in fundamental anatomy and physiology of the human weapon system.”
Robert C Smith, MD
Medical Director
Direct Action Medical Network Alexandria Louisiana