How This is Different Than Other Self Defense Training

If you think self-defense is about learning how to fight that you are sadly mistaken. Knowing what self-defense is is the difference between doing it well or winding up in a heap of trouble.

First off let's talk about what self-defense isn't. Self-defense is not about winning or losing, and it's not about fighting. It's about living or dying, and your ability to survive an assault on your life.
 
Common sense good manners and good habits will serve you far better than any physical fighting ability. Why? Because if you don't have common sense good manners and good habits and all you know how to do is fight than that will always be the place you will find yourself in.
 
It's critical when talking about the topic of self-defense, that we not confuse sport fighting with practical defense fighting strategies. Many martial arts these days are anchored in sport, and as such do not teach practical applications in self-defense. I want to be clear here that I am not criticizing or downplaying the importance of martial arts and its place in the world. I believe all training is good training but let's not confuse systems.
 
Many of the martial arts over the years have become sport based, meaning they have rules and regulations they must follow and adhere to achieve their objective, which in most cases is to gain points, or amass points through repeated contact with their opponent.
 
Any self-defense training worth its salt is not about how many times you can hit somebody. But how quickly you can end the confrontation, we are talking 5 seconds or less. The object of self-defense is to get out of harms way as quickly as possible, eliminating any threat of further violence. The most efficient way to do that is with extreme swift and brutal violence.


 
It's very much the old adage, you must fight fire with fire, but to be realistic. A whole bundle of things would have to go wrong for ever to get to that point. You have to be completely oblivious to any kind of violent situation arising, which in most cases you can see a long way off. You would also have to be an extremely bad mannered conversationalist to antagonize someone to the point of aggression and assault. The bottom line is violence is always a last resort.
 
So the question then becomes why learn self-defense? And the answer is, because when you know how to defend yourself in a strategic, calm and intelligent way you have the ability to alter circumstance meaning you're more confident and sure of yourself, which becomes a trait most attackers seem to shy away from.
 
With confidence, comes high self-esteem, and with high self-esteem you can achieve anything. Learning a few key principles in proper self-defense will put you in control of your circumstances and allow you to protect your most valuable asset that being you and the ones you love.