Four of the pillars of any effective self-defense system should
include rigorous fitness and strength training, technical and tactical training,
learning how to fight and how not to fight.
The latter of these pillars may raise a few
eye brows but the fact is that the most effective self-defense training
involves learning how to avoid a fight or confrontation or in other words, prevention.
Prevention can take many forms of course
but let’s face it, it isn’t sexy, it is difficult so it requires training and as
a result it isn’t practiced or discussed widely enough. Here are a 4 reasons why
we should all learn how not to fight.
Walking and Running Away is hard
It is not easy to swallow your pride, take
your ego out of the equation and walk away from a
confrontation. In fact, it
takes a lot courage, discipline and self-awareness to walk or run away from a
bad situation. For instance, walking
away from a confrontation with an aggressive person in social situation, such
as when at a bar with friends and when there is alcohol involved, can be hard. A situation like this requires you to take
responsibility for a situation and see the bigger picture. This requires
training because such a high level of self-awareness is not always the natural
response and requires some self-confidence to know that ‘losing face’ in front
of others is not the issue. A person has
to have the self-confidence and training to modify their behavior when
confronted with a difficult situation, especially when their natural impulse is
to react first, think later.Decision making is key
The stress of being confronted often makes people to act irrationally or without thinking and this can often lead to poor decision-making. Thinking straight in a stressful situation requires practice and training. For instance, when walking or running from a situation, you must know where to run and how to appeal for help. It isn’t always a case of just running from a situation, you have to ensure that you are running towards an exit, toward a common object you can use to defend yourself or towards help. When confronted with a bad situation, this can easily go wrong which another reason why prevention is difficult and requires some training.
Knowing when not to get involved
Civic responsibility allows modern society
to function but we cannot all put our lives on the line for the sake of
everyone we meet, every situation we witness or confronted with. This is not to suggest you should not ever
get involved merely that every responsible citizen has a threshold of tolerance
and different sensitivities when getting involved in a situation that could
result in you getting hurt. However, preventing an attack on someone else
requires you to read a situation, know your own boundaries as well as getting
out of it. Training can help improve your instincts but learning how to
read body language, watching for weapons and knowing when and how to defuse a
situation by merely talking people down as a third party.
How to train your gut
Instinct, otherwise known as your gut
reaction, could be the weapon that saves someone’s life.
Recent research
supports two-system method in the brain for making decisions: left vs. right
brain. The left brain controls systematic processing, which involves
assessing all the available information before making a conclusion, whereas the
right brain activates heuristic processing, which involves a quick,
"intuitive response." This is the kind of processing we use when
faced with an unexpected threat.
Of course, there are times when the left
brain should take over (like when deciding on your 401(k) contributions) but in
sudden, unexpected and potentially life-threatening situations, there is no
time for complicated analysis. Gut instinct has been proven as a
successful basis for tests, trivia games and other situations that require a
snap judgment. So if your instinct is so
important in making life-saving decisions, how can you hone it?
Part of that is confidence in your judgment such as trusting that you can
defend yourself should you have to. The reason most survivors survive is
that they believe they can.
This is not to suggest that the skills and
tools you require to defend yourself are less important and prevention is the
most important issue as just as often as not, prevention is not possible.
However, prevention is the first issue in any timeline and it is the most
effective tool available.
More than one person has been attacked by both parties while interfering in a fight, especially in domestic disputes.
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