If you got here, I'm sure you're an upstanding citizen who wants to learn how to fight or self defense so that you can keep yourself safe if something bad happens. You may even be thinking about your children and how you'd protect them if someone tried to hurt them.
I congratulate you on this desire. It is healthy and natural to want to learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones. However, I'd like to talk first about the philosophy of self defense.
The Myth of Self Defense
What comes to mind when you think of "how to fight?" Likely it's something from a karate movie. Maybe Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles. You picture high flying kicks and weapons like nunchucks, swords and sais. You have the kind of skill you need to make the bad guys look foolish and walk away unscathed. The bad guys may even end up being someone you get along with after in this fantasy.
For the ladies, you are probably imagining an attacker approaching you on the street. You pass by, but he runs up and grabs you from behind. You're able to pull a Miss Congeniality and kick your attacker in the groin causing him to fall to the ground while you run off to safety and call the police and the bad guy gets arrested.
The movies make these situations seem all too commonplace and believable. Might this happen to you in real life? I guess it could. Will it happen? I think we both realize it's unlikely.
Really Learning How to Fight
A good punch to the face of a determined attacker will probably just make him mad, and make him pull his gun out of his pocket. A kick to the groin of a potential rapist is a great place to start, but he'll probably jump back up and start chasing you.
What is your next move?
You are now in a literal life or death situation. Movie time is over. One of you is going to walk away from this in their current state of health and the other is not. At this terrible but possible moment, you have to be able to put the other person out of commission.
Now you must ask yourself a very tough question. If this situation happened today, would you be able to render this person unconscious, crippled or even deceased if the situation called for it? Would you know what to do to make that happen?
Why We Must Learn How to Fight
It's an unfortunate reality that these are skills that we as responsible, good citizens should have to keep ourselves safe from those who would prey on us. We never want to use these skills, but we must have them to call upon when needed. For ourselves and for those we love.
The movies make it seem like these skills are exclusive to CIA operatives and ninja masters. However, there is a simple and effective way to put an attacker on the ground so they can't get up using movements that come very naturally, like walking, turning, and falling down. You don't need a black belt to keep yourself and your family safe.
Why would I say you don't need a lot of training? You just have to target the right spots on your opponent. For example, how would it feel if you fell with your knees onto your attacker's throat? See how it could be very easy to make it so that attacker can't hurt you anymore? You just have to aim and fire at the right places on his body!
I congratulate you on this desire. It is healthy and natural to want to learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones. However, I'd like to talk first about the philosophy of self defense.
The Myth of Self Defense
What comes to mind when you think of "how to fight?" Likely it's something from a karate movie. Maybe Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles. You picture high flying kicks and weapons like nunchucks, swords and sais. You have the kind of skill you need to make the bad guys look foolish and walk away unscathed. The bad guys may even end up being someone you get along with after in this fantasy.
For the ladies, you are probably imagining an attacker approaching you on the street. You pass by, but he runs up and grabs you from behind. You're able to pull a Miss Congeniality and kick your attacker in the groin causing him to fall to the ground while you run off to safety and call the police and the bad guy gets arrested.
The movies make these situations seem all too commonplace and believable. Might this happen to you in real life? I guess it could. Will it happen? I think we both realize it's unlikely.
Really Learning How to Fight
A good punch to the face of a determined attacker will probably just make him mad, and make him pull his gun out of his pocket. A kick to the groin of a potential rapist is a great place to start, but he'll probably jump back up and start chasing you.
What is your next move?
You are now in a literal life or death situation. Movie time is over. One of you is going to walk away from this in their current state of health and the other is not. At this terrible but possible moment, you have to be able to put the other person out of commission.
Now you must ask yourself a very tough question. If this situation happened today, would you be able to render this person unconscious, crippled or even deceased if the situation called for it? Would you know what to do to make that happen?
Why We Must Learn How to Fight
It's an unfortunate reality that these are skills that we as responsible, good citizens should have to keep ourselves safe from those who would prey on us. We never want to use these skills, but we must have them to call upon when needed. For ourselves and for those we love.
The movies make it seem like these skills are exclusive to CIA operatives and ninja masters. However, there is a simple and effective way to put an attacker on the ground so they can't get up using movements that come very naturally, like walking, turning, and falling down. You don't need a black belt to keep yourself and your family safe.
Why would I say you don't need a lot of training? You just have to target the right spots on your opponent. For example, how would it feel if you fell with your knees onto your attacker's throat? See how it could be very easy to make it so that attacker can't hurt you anymore? You just have to aim and fire at the right places on his body!
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