You must start by believing that you can be effective
in Self Defense, by that, believe that you could defend yourself if you were attacked.

You do not require a whole lot of special skills to be effective in Self Defense, in fact, far from it. A handful of simple and effective skills, backed up with useful knowledge would be ample.

The techniques you need to learn must be very simple yet very effective. They must be simple, as most people cannot carry-out complex motor skills under extreme stress. The information you require is to assist in piecing all the elements together. Without the information, your techniques could be useless as you need the ability to carry them out under stress.

You need to learn to control your fear, avoid panic, and so on. We will certainly help with many areas and steer you in the right direction for others.

Why should you believe that you can defend yourself against a bigger stronger person?

Remember, it has been done before by many people. There are thousands of stories of people successfully defending themselves against all odds, you just tend to hear more about the bad ones. The fact that these other people have protected themselves is an indicator that it is certainly possible for you to make a difference.

You are capable of inflicting more damage upon another person than you could possibly imagine. Learning the techniques and practicing them does certainly give you the confidence to know you are physically capable of performing them.

We have all been gifted with natural instincts to survive. You must dig deep and find those instincts and do whatever it takes in order to survive. You can and will do whatever it takes in order to survive and get back to your loved ones.

A Mother will do anything to protect here young. You must find that same emotion and use it to protect yourself. At the end of the day, if you do not do everything you can to protect yourself, then you may never be seeing your children or other loved ones again.

Find the emotion that drives you. What is it that will ensure you are going home today?

Over the next few articles, I will be covering many of these areas. The next article will cover "How Far will You go? to be effective in Self Defense regardless of your size and strength.

By Malcolm Bale - 2nd Degree Black Belt in Jiu-Jitsu

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