| I will share with you four different things to | | | | #3 Feature of Best Self Defense Training: Getting |
| consider when you are in a combat situation. | | | | hit is not so horrible as it appears. You will |
| These concepts are the true elements of finding | | | | eventually understand that the majority of |
| yourself in an actual street fight and needing to | | | | punches that you take will not hit you right and |
| defend yourself, or put another way, "reality | | | | will really not hurt so badly. Learning how you can |
| based self defense." Should you get into a | | | | take such a hit and shrug off the pain when you |
| scenario in your house or in front of a bar, you | | | | spar is an essential element in becoming a capable |
| must understand how to handle yourself in order | | | | fighter. In order to understand how you should |
| to come out of the situation alive and to win the | | | | react when you are in the throes of a real fight, |
| fight. | | | | you ought to spar with friends or colleagues at |
| #1 Feature of Best Self Defense Training: If your | | | | the place where you train. |
| assailant has a gun or similar type of weapon, you | | | | #4 Feature of Best Self Defense Training: You |
| should always surrender. Don't put your life at risk | | | | must maintain calm and a cool head in advance of |
| attempting to disarm him when all you have to do | | | | considering a skillful combat move. You must |
| to get out of the situation is to give him the $20 | | | | internalize the methods of fighting while you are |
| in your wallet. This is also true for an attacker | | | | taking kicks and punches from your assailant. You |
| armed with a knife. | | | | should understand the importance of maintaining |
| #2 Feature of Best Self Defense Training: | | | | calm while your attacker pounds you so that you |
| Television and movies combat and fights are | | | | will not lose your composure or become afraid. |
| never real. You will not defeat a guy with a knife | | | | Let me say it one more time: the majority of |
| using a wild jump kick. While standing in front of a | | | | those wild martial arts' spin kicks do not give good |
| nightclub, I witnessed a man trying this, and he | | | | results in an actual fight. If you attempt to be too |
| nearly died from the lost blood. You must | | | | fancy in your attack moves, a number of them |
| remember the basics of defense in order to not | | | | will open you to a severe counterattack in a |
| let the situation spin out of control. Remember | | | | battle on the streets. Remember these four |
| yet again that the fights you watch in the movies | | | | elements and you will discover that you have |
| are never real! | | | | reached a greater skill level in the martial arts. |