Sneak Attacks

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A sudden attack made from a concealed position; to attack suddenly and without warning from a concealed place. Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, waylay. 

You probably already know about sneak attacks and that as you deal with them in training and practice you expand your self-protection skills and your success in self-protection increases. Can you imagine just how easily you are integrating sneak attacks into the methodologies you train and practice to achieve success in self-protection? 

In self-protection, called self-defense, through martial disciplines like karate the training and practices often are geared toward a head-on or fact-to-face scenario that people understand simply because that is how we compete in kumite, tournaments and even on the dojo floor practices, drills and other training regimen. 

If you train for self-protection, then you have to train in a comprehensive manner. Self-protection is not about the competitive endeavors. It is about not fighting. It is not about participation in the monkey dance, i.e., socially driven aggressions and violence. It is about a more predatory villain attack that is applied only when you, the target, are at a position and state easily attacked simply because you allowed yourself to become an easy target. 

No criminal wants to fight; no criminal wants to allow his target a chance; no criminal wants to endure pain or damage; no criminal wants even a remote chance that they will face criminal charges, etc. so criminals will target only those easiest to put into positions that allow maximum damage to the target while leaving little to no damage to the criminal...if they can. 

As an example, if a person is being targeted for either a resource reason or a process reason that person is going to be totally surprised when the attack hits. They are going to be subjected to a sneak attack, i.e., ambushed, bushwhacked or waylaid by the attacker where their goal might be to surprise you totally, wreck havoc on your structure, balance and mind-state. They will put you into a state that allows them to get the job done and exit, stage left outta there. 

Do you train and practice sneak attacks? 

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