The Art of Avoidance Ain't Easy


As I travel this path toward knowledge I discover along the way that this is the most difficult path and I begin to understand why it is self-defense avoids the difficult for the easy - teaching techniques over knowledge. What, isn't learning techniques actually attaining knowledge you say. Yes but it is only the last page of a big, big book.

What I have found in my studies is that this art of avoidance is even more difficult that all the training I have encountered in martial arts. Yes, I said I find it more difficult yet discovered more beneficial than all my martial arts training. You really have to learn and ingrain many different and difficult things to achieve a solid level of avoidance capability. 

Just a hint, it takes a good deal of open-mindedness; it takes a good deal of self-reflection, self-analysis and a solid self-assessment as to life risks, i.e. behovior and environmental to name just two; it takes an ability to stop the monkey who lives on ego and pride; it takes self-mastery in the art of communications; it takes a large quantity of self-control; it takes many, many, many different skills to achieve a proficient level in the art of avoidance. 

Physical skills are easy to attain but will they work without the knowledge necessary to avoid it in the first place? Do you actually train to use the physical skills as a last resort making avoidance the primary precursor to any conflict? These and other such questions are what I am asking myself every single day and then I come across more knowledge that speaks to avoidance and I say to myself, "this stuff is complicated and when you add in all the other self-defense levels and skills - WoW!"

Daunting but doable is also what I say. I wish I had the sources for all this thirty plus years ago but alas the cards I was dealt were adequate and useful so I acted properly to make use of them for the time. The time is now and this is doable even if my time is passing. I just wish that just one person listens to all that folks out there are offering and take the hint. Then we would have some powerful training and practice that would lead to less victimization. 

The art of avoidance is actually of greater worth to anyone who is interested in self-defense. It is actually a whole and complete course all on its own that would and should be the "prerequisite" to any self-defense training. Then again, if a self-defense course required a prerequisite of avoidance training then they would in all probability go out of business. Maybe this is why self-defense training should not be to make money but rather you make money from teaching self-defense. 

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