| The Vigilance Standard in Self Defense | | | | Train off the principle that, when under an |
| Our society is becoming more violent. Violent crimes | | | | aggressor's attack, your body will only allow you to |
| increase daily and yet, our world is more integrated | | | | utilize gross motor skills, i.e., simple movements. You |
| than ever. We travel more, commute from home to | | | | cannot perform intricate jump-spinning back kicks and |
| work, and are out and about more than our | | | | other gravity-defying movements with success when |
| grandparents or even our parents were. So, the | | | | under duress. In addition to requiring a ballet of |
| question is: how will you prepare to be out in this | | | | choreographed movements, certain martial art |
| world, as it presents increasing risks to your own | | | | schools impress upon the student that he must be |
| personal security? You are taking steps, such as | | | | prepared to defend himself after he is physically |
| reading this article, to educate yourself. But what | | | | attacked. Such reactive, versus proactive, training is |
| type of training will that education lead you to | | | | not effective and relying on it can be costly and |
| choose? | | | | dangerous. In fact, the best defense (with a new |
| A New Way of Thinking | | | | spin on an old saying) is a good offense. |
| Here is a bold statement - self defense is not rocket | | | | In addition to advocating easy-to-execute training, |
| science. In its simplest form it should be a natural | | | | the author has designed the following A.D.D. formula |
| flow of devastating strikes and movements. No | | | | for recognizing, processing, and dealing with possible |
| matter what you hear from the up-teen million | | | | physical attacks: |
| experts on the subject, it breaks down very simply. | | | | (A) Avoid compromising situations. Be aware of your |
| Protect your life at all cost, using the most | | | | surroundings. |
| devastating forms of hand to hand that you can. It | | | | (D) Dissuade any potential aggressor with verbal |
| would be nice if we had 10 years to train in Kung Fu | | | | commands and body language. |
| and a red pill to take to become a combination of | | | | (D) Decimate your aggressor with devastating |
| Bruce Lee and Neo from the Matrix, easily rendering | | | | strikes. |
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