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Maybe you are expecting me to jump into the dangers you face at every moment and every turn; maybe you are expecting to reference the awesomeness of my system of martial arts as the fastest and easiest form of self-defense to learn; you might be making some assumption that I can fill all your needs to remain safe and secure while providing you all the tactical-cool movie-like tricks and such to protect yourself BUT guess what dudes and dudettes, ain’t gonna happen.
Self-Fense (combo of offense and defense) doesn’t start there, it starts here: “Knowledge and Understanding!” It is about taking control of your life, making decisions for yourself and then seeking out those things you will need to know and understand to remain safe and secure in life regardless of what, when, where, why and how of things.
To make informed decisions about anything requires a lot of work to start. You have to learn about things to make such decisions and that requires a lot of work. When I say knowledge you have to understand that knowledge comes in many forms other than just academic. This also applies to understanding for it too comes in many forms. It comes down to attaining knowledge then applying that in life so you come to understand both the academic and reality-based aspects of that knowledge, a type of understanding that is both cerebral and instinctual, i.e., like the difference form academic knowledge and the type of knowledge we refer to as “Common Sense knowledge and understanding.”
The reason this concept doesn’t hold water is because we don’t want to work that hard, we as humans tend to be pretty darn lazy and our modern social conditioning today teaches us to rely on others to make decisions for us, you know, the experts that we are not since we don’t rally want to take the time to learn and understand. It’s much easier to just follow the herd so to speak and that is a natural human species thing that our modern lazy compliance professions depend on to make money, etc.
Knowledge: Academic (but the right kind that is fact-checked, reliable and found valid, etc.); Experience based (the kind you get when you actually leave the classroom and life it out in the real world while being exposed to the chaos and fluidity of life itself, etc.); Reality based (where you accumulate and analyze facts, information, and SKILLS you acquire, others acquire both theoretical and practice to synthesize how you act to remain safe and secure, etc.); Awareness Based (where you have attained both awareness and familiarity through experience of facts and/or situations, etc.).
Understanding: Ability based (where you learn, know and understand your abilities and capabilities and limitations, etc.); Comprehension Based (where your understanding through experience and abstract though become intelligence, etc.); Perceptive/Judgement Based (where you learn to analyze and synthesize ad-hoc, dynamic and creative ways to apply the knowledge and understanding, etc.); and so on.
Note: there is more to the above but my goal is not to give you the easy way by providing all the information.
So, you see, this isn’t a glorified glamorous Bruce Lee-esque media driven ad campaign to help you gladly part with your hard earned money because all of this can be accomplished far and away from the Self-defense industry. Not to say that there are not actual industry programs that will actually give you this part but most don’t so, buyer BEWARE!
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“In order for any life to matter, we all have to matter.” - Marcus Luttrell, Navy Seal (ret)
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