Self Defense Fighting Requires Real Skills
Are you capable of protecting your loved ones under one of the following real-life circumstances?
*Criminal behavior confronts you and your family while visiting downtown
*On an evening walk in your own neighborhood, you're jumped by a duo of muggers
*While sleeping in your home at night your are awakended by a noise inside your house
*You're at a party when a couple beer-muscle chumps attempt to corner you
These are just several generalized examples. Still, life can throw us into unexpected, dangerous scenarios without notice. You might feel that it is not likely to happen to YOU, but what if it actually does? Can you imagine anything more serious, and tragic, than being destroyed in an attack for which you were not physically prepared? In reality, people of any demographic can easily learn the basic self defense fighting skills necessary to dominate these situations, without spending countless hours, days, and years in a martial arts dojo.
Martial art disciplines are cool, but are intrinsically isolated and even negligent in their preparedness, like feeling well prepared to fight without knowing how gravely different a real altercation will be. By way of example, Karate doesn't do much to prepare students with trapping and grappling, and is weak in punching range. Popular and gritty Muay Thai can be dangerous...until the fight goes to the ground. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu students train mostly for sport and do not engage in kicking and punching, but manner of training. Boxers can't kick or grapple, and most do not know much, if anything, about trapping. None of these areas alone prepare a student for multiple attackers.
Even tenured MMA fighters are not prepared for real-life engagements. Crazies and desperate junkies don't care if you're ready, and will not play by the rules. Even among mixed martial artists, there is a telling admission that "after the first punch the black belt is already down to a brown belt", and so on down it goes with every strike. Summarily, one can only be ready by training self defense fighting fundamentals which prepare them with the ability to quickly and effectively disable an attacker in any kind of situation.
Personally, I don't support needless bravado and aggression, and I believe that altercation should be avoided at all costs, short of precluding or reacting to a deadly threat or imminent danger. But when that snake-eyed thug glares at you with no intent but to harm, you have to know how to put down the threat. The altercation may be unavoidable. Whether attacked or threatened into first action, it is imperative that you are equipped with brutally effective self defense fighting methodology in order to destroy your attacker.
There was a story of a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu champion taking down an attacker and securing a beautiful arm lock, only to let go when the aggressor "tapped" and get stabbed in the stomach when the guy got up! When we train, we program our reactions. Even MMA fighters are vulnerable in true life scenarios, because they train under the constraint of 37 rules. Rest assured, your dark-parking-lot attacker will not follow these rules, and nor should you be. When your duty to protect is tested by dangerous reality, you'd better be trained to fight back without restraint of formality.
Self defense fighting preparation requires very specific training in order to enact debilitation force upon your attacker.
This is a very real argument. Frankly, I'm tired of seeing pumped up fools in their "Tapout" t-shirts, feeling dominant after watching a few UFC fights and hitting the gym a few times each week. Even worse is a karate black belt acting invulnerable. When they are suddenly attacked by a goon with nothing to lose, they will instantly lose their complex poise and convert immediately to simple-motor-movement mode. Unless you're one of the rare few capable of remaining poised and executing complex techniques, you should think about training for self defense fighting techniques that actually work in a pinch.
*Criminal behavior confronts you and your family while visiting downtown
*On an evening walk in your own neighborhood, you're jumped by a duo of muggers
*While sleeping in your home at night your are awakended by a noise inside your house
*You're at a party when a couple beer-muscle chumps attempt to corner you
These are just several generalized examples. Still, life can throw us into unexpected, dangerous scenarios without notice. You might feel that it is not likely to happen to YOU, but what if it actually does? Can you imagine anything more serious, and tragic, than being destroyed in an attack for which you were not physically prepared? In reality, people of any demographic can easily learn the basic self defense fighting skills necessary to dominate these situations, without spending countless hours, days, and years in a martial arts dojo.
Martial art disciplines are cool, but are intrinsically isolated and even negligent in their preparedness, like feeling well prepared to fight without knowing how gravely different a real altercation will be. By way of example, Karate doesn't do much to prepare students with trapping and grappling, and is weak in punching range. Popular and gritty Muay Thai can be dangerous...until the fight goes to the ground. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu students train mostly for sport and do not engage in kicking and punching, but manner of training. Boxers can't kick or grapple, and most do not know much, if anything, about trapping. None of these areas alone prepare a student for multiple attackers.
Even tenured MMA fighters are not prepared for real-life engagements. Crazies and desperate junkies don't care if you're ready, and will not play by the rules. Even among mixed martial artists, there is a telling admission that "after the first punch the black belt is already down to a brown belt", and so on down it goes with every strike. Summarily, one can only be ready by training self defense fighting fundamentals which prepare them with the ability to quickly and effectively disable an attacker in any kind of situation.
Personally, I don't support needless bravado and aggression, and I believe that altercation should be avoided at all costs, short of precluding or reacting to a deadly threat or imminent danger. But when that snake-eyed thug glares at you with no intent but to harm, you have to know how to put down the threat. The altercation may be unavoidable. Whether attacked or threatened into first action, it is imperative that you are equipped with brutally effective self defense fighting methodology in order to destroy your attacker.
There was a story of a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu champion taking down an attacker and securing a beautiful arm lock, only to let go when the aggressor "tapped" and get stabbed in the stomach when the guy got up! When we train, we program our reactions. Even MMA fighters are vulnerable in true life scenarios, because they train under the constraint of 37 rules. Rest assured, your dark-parking-lot attacker will not follow these rules, and nor should you be. When your duty to protect is tested by dangerous reality, you'd better be trained to fight back without restraint of formality.
Self defense fighting preparation requires very specific training in order to enact debilitation force upon your attacker.
This is a very real argument. Frankly, I'm tired of seeing pumped up fools in their "Tapout" t-shirts, feeling dominant after watching a few UFC fights and hitting the gym a few times each week. Even worse is a karate black belt acting invulnerable. When they are suddenly attacked by a goon with nothing to lose, they will instantly lose their complex poise and convert immediately to simple-motor-movement mode. Unless you're one of the rare few capable of remaining poised and executing complex techniques, you should think about training for self defense fighting techniques that actually work in a pinch.
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