Control Area 360°

As we advance, Keysi is not a self-defence stuck in a method. Keysi is a discipline in defence evolving ,as an instructor or a student Keysi, taking the time that it takes, it will never stop learning because the system is constantly evolving in our world full of changes.

On another occasion we spoke of area control, but in Keysi we don’t mean only the control of one opponent in front of you, but your entire environment from the air you breathe, until that empty beer can you're going to step on if you take one single step behind, or the hole in the floor behind your opponent that he/she has not seen and that if you push a little it will lose balance and you can finish your defence receiving less damage.

To see us surrounded by people, this control area allows us to visualize them all of them and act accordingly to the reactions they cause.

Always remember that in Keysi learn to never give up, no matter what happens never give up. Surrender is not synonymous with cowardice, but surrendering things never change.

That does not mean you have to go all brave for life, it means you are able to do things that you yourself can’t think you can get. So Keysi is your method of self-defence, because you need not adapt to it, as Keysi adapts you.

So from Keysi only encourage you to. "Never give up, to attack."

FAQ of Keysi

How come being Keysi a not regulated system, it follows the values of dogma?

The basics of Keysi or its pillars, it’s not a fighting method in itself, it’s not the fact the students learn how to fight. Because there is now a definitive technique, not a final hit, because nobody is invincible, something as sharp as that does not exist.

Keysi, despite the absence of standards, what we do have is values, roots that can be defined in three: Mental, Physical and Emotional Parts

·         Physical side: You will find a person in his 40s who hasn’t done sports for years and lacks flexibility, but in Keysi that is not essential, because the same way that “Michelangelo” took a huge stone and made “David” in Keysi with perseverance, effort and training that person will overcome any barriers.

·         Mental part: It is as simple as training every day, is the result of effort and perseverance. Techniques, training, situations.

The mental part is as easy to operate as proportionate the effort and dedication.

·         Emotional part: The sum of all the above, if you train you get in, if you get in shape, mentally you work your brain and body and emotionally, you feel happy with yourself.

Arriving at this point you may

Arriving at this point you may be wondering after you've read even not see boundaries as far as concerns Keysi. But as mentioned above those 3 factors are the pillars of Keysi. Because over time, training will be learning to defend is not the same as attack, and attack is not the same as learning to defend themselves.

Not for the fact that you must defend yourself hit without restraint, because in your mind training you will see that it is not necessary, and your mental training'll see it's not necessary, and your emotional training will act according to the situation.

But your body will do the rest and this friend / a mine is something you will learn training and constancy.

You may have despite having read all this follow without understanding what values, what are the limits that could talk for hours, days, maybe even years, and probably would follow without understanding.

With this I do not mean you're a fairly intelligent person far.

Perhaps the fault is mine I'm talking about, but I recognize that the more you talk more, I find it difficult to express in words how you would understand immediately training with us.

Therefore friend / a mine / a I encourage you, I invite you, I encourage you to get close to know, trains with us, breathe our air and when done all I ask you is, is it worth it?

Are you going to answer even before seeing you because in the end when I approached you, just ask the question before your smile will say it all, because despite the tiredness, pain and fatigue that will be worth it.

Because Keysi each instructor, puts her heart and soul into what you do, because we believe in what we do and we are really happy to do so.

To Keysi an instructor is not a tool, not a student half. Because Keysi each instructor is part of a family and each student is a brother in arms and that's what most defines us, we are neither mercenaries or thugs, or crazy.

We are a big family and I invite you to join it.

Never give up, to attack.

What is fear?

Fear is an emotional state, fear is feeling that differentiates us from something as cold as machines. But is fear a feeling that makes us weak? Is fear a negative feeling?

For starters there is a “value” without “fear”, just as there is no “fear” without “Value”, the one cannot exist without the other.

Sometimes people say that a person is brave because he is capable of doing something which might paralyse someone else.

So what differentiates a brave person other than perhaps less brave?

Nothing, not even the word that we used to define it, the only different is that, one of the two, despite the dear, the fatigue, pain, shaking legs, gathering strength from where there is none, that one will regain the strength tomorrow and will make a step forwards, because of what we mentioned before, there is no value without fear and no fear without value.

How to overcome fear?

In Keysi we cannot give you the secret formula to overcome fear but what we can do is give you the tools. If you give food to a man he will go hungry again, but if you gave him the necessary tools and learn to grow food he won’t be hungry ever again.

Fear will always be there for life wherever you go, but that’s is exactly the most important thing, take that fear, hug it, want it know it but always do one step forwards, be constant and, even though your fear will be there, you would have given thousands of steps because you know it, fear will talk to you, it will whisper in your ear, saying things like: Stop!, Leave it! You can’t! Surrender!

But in Keysi you will learn that You can!, go ahead! We don’t whisper to your ear saying you can’t do it, we will shout saying you can!  To believe in yourself and nobody, not even yourself, will be able to say to you that you can’t.

We want to emphasize that the value, same as fear, can destroy you completely.

Value is nothing more than overcoming a fear, but if a person feels nothing in front an extreme situation, it doesn’t mean you are brave, it means you are condemned to learn in a bluntly way that value can cost you.

If someone pulls a knife you could say that you can probably take on its wearer. We tell you that if you get the change, it’s smart to run, because against a weapon you only get one mistake.

But if you cannot run, and the only thing which you can do is to fight against that person, then fight, face that person, face your fears and live to explain it because, sometimes , it is braver to run and coward to fight.

They might seem disparate contradictions, but actually in reality, in the real life, in a real tale of life, death, it’s all relevant depending of a good or bad decision.

Yet with all this we don’t want to say if fear is good or bad, or that you will be a brave person.

In Keysi what we want to express is that, with training y perseverance you will recognize the situation, the fear and you will go forwards even if your decision is run is if its fight, because you would have trained your mind and body in such a way that fear won’t paralyze you, but it will bring the best out of you, because there is nothing with the effort and dedication you cannot get. 

 

Brother in arms

Hi my name is… Well, actually the funny thing about this article is that it is anonymous. To know who i am you will need to read this til the end. Maybe I am the very same Justo Dieguez or maybe a simple instructor or a spectator.

Just a week ago the Self Defense Murcia Seminar was done, where we developed all the things we learned from KEYSI through the year.

If you can read this I assumed you know more than enough about this self defense method. But this time we’re not going to talk about KEYSI itself. We’re going to talk about what happened in the seminar, the life experience.

Maybe I was giving the seminar? Maybe I received it? Maybe I was just an outsider watching the seminar developed. A few years ago I observed KEYSI from its highest peak I even watched its descent but the past circumstances never stopped the KEYSI progress. Since a couple of years until now KEYSI had a lot of changes, some of them easy to carry on others harder to understand.

But putting the past aside, what happened in this seminar? I know that the participants even though it is hard to explain if you noticed we had a magical moment, where obviously we train hard and a lot but did you noticed that tranquility sensation? Did you notice the bond that was built among the participants?

It didn’t matter where you were from, your language, your age, constitution and race, none of that matter. Yes we were practicing but what happened between series? We congratulate each other, we laughed, what happened after the classes? Long conversations took place, walks among friends and trips to the beach or just hanging out in the pool. This is isn’t an article about KEYSI, it’s just a thought about what happened in the seminar. During a week none of the participants can’t deny that what started with a handshake ended up with a hug that didn’t say “good bye” but “see you soon brother”.

We had new incorporations, people who had struggled and people who had come thousands of kilometers just to be training for a week, but even they felt that people’s union that in the beginning they may started as strangers but ended up being brothers

I wish I could express in words just how great we got to feel all together in that moment and place. If you’re reading this and you do not understand a word of what you’re reading, don’t worry is perfectly normal but instead I invite you to join us the next time.

Because no matter how hard the things got a while ago now it turns out more evident that KEYSI will rise, that the people we’re here we believe, enjoy what we do but also fight for what we do, we know that despite how hard things can get we’ll still be there because we will never surrender, we’ll never stop fighting because there’s nothing more rewarding that fight for what you believe and knowing that no matter what happens your brothers in arms will never leave your side.

Loyalty is a rare commodity nowadays and is something that you cannot buy, you can only earn it. The only thing I regret about those 7 days is that they passed like if they were 7 minutes but I cannot regret anything but that.

I know that some of you won’t understand my words but if the curiosity beats your intrigue, don’t keep the doubt, I can only tell you to come and meet us, to hang out with us, train with us for a day, live with us, breathe the same air we do and then answer me this question; was it worth the effort?

Finally we wanted to remark the families of the participants, say thanks for their efforts, their encouragement and support they had in us and say thank you for our warm and support, cause without you this couldn’t be what it is today, it wouldn’t exists.

I want to send regards for all of those who read this article and a big hug for all my brothers.

Never Surrender.

Al ataque.

Best Regards: Juan José Sánchez Flores ( Keysi Madrid)