1. You must be able to defend yourself even if you’re incapacitated, injured or older. Chances are you will be attacked when you are distracted or disabled. Criminals, like predators, choose easy targets of opportunity. People who appear to who have some apparent physical disadvantage will be attacked. Professional football players don’t get mugged, elderly persons and women do. You want a method of protecting yourself that doesn’t require a tremendous amount of strength or athleticism.
2. The techniques must be simple and easy to remember. Complicated and intricate methods of defense are too much to remember when you’re under the extreme stress of an assault. It doesn’t matter if you’re a combat veteran or a college student; everybody has the same reaction when placed in a life or death situation. Your body takes over and you’ll only be able to perform gross motor movements with a single minded purpose. Intricate and complicated tasks will become impossible. The only techniques that work don’t require a great amount of skill or technical practice and can be used no matter what your state of mind.
3. It cannot be a “specific defense” system.
   A specific defense system is one that has a specific counter defense to a specific attack. For example, in a typical martial arts studio, if your assailant grabs your collar you do one defense, but if he grabs your shoulder, you do another defense. And while in theory, under the friendly conditions of the training area, among friends, this seems like a plausible idea, in real life this simply DOES NOT WORK.  Remember, you will be attacked under the worst possible conditions at the most inopportune time. Like 11:00pm after a long day of work, while your mind is elsewhere and you try to locate your car, do you really think you’re going to be able to remember the defense for a wrist grab or a head lock? Probably not. Your assailant will attack you ruthlessly and without any concern for your safety. The 10 Lesson Self Defense Program trains you to simply move and react instinctively and with purpose. While using only a handful of proven techniques, you’ll be able to protect yourself in any situation.
4. You can’t have separate techniques for single and multiple attackers.

Your assailant is not going to leave anything to chance. So sometimes he’ll have an accomplice to help him. And there’s a good chance that you won’t know he has a partner until it’s too late. So you a system of defense that takes in account the high probability that there is more than one attacker. In the 10 Lesson Self Defense Program you’ll discover how to keep mobile and become a hard to hit moving target.

5. You must take into account different terrain.
   You never know where you’ll be assaulted, an icy parking lot, a sandy beach or a wooded jungle. You obviously can’t train for each specific environment, but there is one simple way to prepare yourself for any terrain or weather condition. The footwork you will learn in the 10 lessons, teaches you how to negotiate any terrain imaginable.
6. You cannot have separate defenses for empty hand attacks and weapon attacks. Maybe you’re assailant will threaten you with a weapon or maybe they’ll just try to strong arm you at first. Chances are, you never see the weapon until it’s too late. In either case, you have to react in a way that takes into account that a weapon exists. The 10 Lesson course trains you to use one method for armed and unarmed assailants.
7. Your priority should be escape and survive. Truth be told, it is infinitely harder to knock out or incapacitate a determined, capable assailant than it is to escape and survive and assault. Programs that teach you to try and “finish off” your attacker are impractical and irresponsible. The 10 Lesson Self Defense Program will show you how to create avenues of escape while you discourage your assailant from continuing the assault.
8. You don’t have time get into a fighting stance before you attack.
   It’s simple; if you have time to put your hands up, you have already wasted crucial time to take proactive steps to help you survive. In an attack, every second counts and you need every possible advantage. When you indicate that you’ve had some prior training that will only cause your assailant to take that into consideration and immediately escalate the attack. You also lose the element of surprise when you get into a “stance”.  The course will show you how to begin in a non-threatening position and then explode into action into your attackers, without hesitation.
9. You must hit targets and training dummies. In order to develop power you must hit substantial targets. This is the one of the ways to gain ANY real world training benefits. Simply put, if you’re practicing to hit something; then hit something! From the first moment you begin your first lesson in the program, you’ll be hitting pads, training dummies and targets. So you’ll get the triple benefit of developing power, conditioning your body’s natural weapons and developing confidence.
10. You don’t need a Black Belt defend yourself.
    Studying a martial art and learning to protect your self are two different endeavors. To survive and escape you only need a handful of proven methods with the right kind of practice in a specific number of repetitions. This will elevate your awareness and increase your chances of going home safely. The 10 Lesson Self Defense Program is engineered to give you the maximum benefit in a minimum amount of time.

 

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