Abstract - The modern self-defence system ATK
The author acquaints the reader with a modern self-defence system ATK standing for Antiterrorkampf. The article lists the aims and objectives Horst Weiland bore in mind, creating the system. The author presents a short characteristic of the systems technical program. The idea behind the system is that it is feasible during a training, and the techniques are performer without any feigned imitation. When being practiced, the system makes students tough, enabling them to exercise a tough control over their opponents.
The system is based on the old, natural defence method that human claws used to be in the remote past. Taking into account the efficiency of the techniques, the author of the system created adequate regulations and legal barriers which present it from being used for appropriate dangerous activities.
The author of the article asks questions and attempts to answer them. Has the author of ATK devoted enough attention to combining physical education with moral principles to rule out aggression? Does the system resemble military systems, e.g. combat, or rather martial arts? A number of differences between ATK and various military systems have been indicated, as regards the aims, the rules and the technical program. It has also been discovered that the modern self–defence system ATK is closely associated with martial arts, in particular jujutsu.
Horst Weiland made a ingenious use of the knowledge contained in the art of hand-to-hand combat without stripping it of ethical values.