What is Self-Defense - The Big Picture

You do not need to be strong, brave or male to be able to defend yourself. Awareness, confidence, verbal skills and physical self-defense techniques are skills we can all learn. There is a lot more to it than just physically hitting someone in order to protect yourself.

Awareness gives you options. How you look and feel makes you look confident. What you say and how you say it, gives you strength. Physical techniques are for when all else fails.

Why Learn Self-Defense - Because you Can

If you do not have attack victim scars, you do not want them! Is your life worth fighting for? Self-defense is only 10% physical.  Learning self-defense will make your mum and dad feel better, and you will feel good knowing that you can protect yourself!

You have probably heard, read or seen news reports about people who have been attacked. What you are not often told during these reports, are the “details” of the attack.

Brutally beaten, repeatedly kicked, and knocked unconscious are words often used to describe an attack, but the reporters leave it up to you to fill in the details.

Your life is worth fighting for

There have been a lot of people who have died fighting for their country. Why? Because they believed that their country was worth fighting for. Your life is your own personal country. Is your life worth fighting for… of course it is!

“But-but-but, I’m not fit, I’m not a violent person, I don’t want to hurt anyone. I’m very small you know, and I’m not as young as I used to be! Can little old me actually learn how to defend myself, you say?”

Of course you can! How do I know that you can? Because you are reading this article!

Your ability to read, guarantees that you can learn a lot about self-defense!

Self-defense is only 10% physical

Awareness, options, self-confidence and verbal defense skills are all obtainable by simply reading. Physical self-defense techniques account for only a small part of your ability to defend yourself… roughly 10%.

Why learn self-defense? - Because you can!

Because you may be targeted for violent crime and you can not rely on the police - they can not be everywhere. People would prefer to look the other way and not help you, so you must rely on yourself.

Your home, content and car insurance are of no use to you if you are killed by an attacker. You have probably got life insurance that will help look after your family if you die. Self-defense skills are the closest thing you can get to insure against YOUR life being taken by a low-life attacker!

You should see being able to swim, so you don’t drown, and being able to defend yourself, so you don’t become the next victim of violent crime, as VITAL life-saving skills. By learning to defend yourself, you are giving yourself “fighting chance” insurance for surviving an attack.

Besides, it will make your mum and dad feel better and you will feel good knowing that you can protect yourself!

Self-Defense Class - What do you Want From It

Here are just a few of the more popular reasons why people take a self-defense class:

• Learn to defend oneself.
• Street fighting skills.
• Traditional aspects of martial arts.
• Fitness.
• New friends.