Self Defense Training - 3 Critical Differences Between Martial Arts Training and a Real Attack!

Have you trained in the martial arts? Have you enrolled in a women's self defense training program or two, but know that there's a difference between what you've learned and a real fight? Are you afraid that, if you're ever attacked, you'll freeze up and forget everything you've learned?

I understand completely. Because, before I got this area of my life figured out, I was in the exact same place. And I hear this same concern from those looking for women's self defense training all the time.

When I was a police officer, I and my fellow officers would joke that, when it came to our self-defense training, we were "graduates of Thursday's class at 3 o'clock!" And, police officer or not, you and I need to know that what we're getting from our self defense training will give us the necessary tools, and maybe more importantly - the confidence - for actually succeeding in a real-life violent attack!

Here's a self defense tip that I used to get what I needed from a solid self defense training program: I looked at what I was learning and compared that with what I actually experienced in a self defense situation against real attackers.

Then, and here's what you have to do as well...

I sought out, and learned from, teachers who could give me the tools I had to have in order to survive!

But, that leads to the questions of: "how do you know if the self defense training you're getting can be trusted?"

Here are some important differences between common martial arts training and most so-called self defense programs and a real-world attack on the street. If the self defense training that you're learning places too much emphasis on these elements... run!

1. Pre-staged training. Technique training is important, but if everything you're doing involves step-by-step, memorized strings of moves with no allowance for variations or drills for creative response and decision-making under pressure, then you are not developing the critical skills you'll need to survive! If you aren't learning to apply the skills your getting in a chaotic, free-response, and stressful way, then what you're doing is really not self defense training!

2. Coddling. While your self defense training should be relatively safe, your instructor should not be coddling you and telling you how great you are. He should also not have to deal with whining, complaining, or other nonsense about you're not wanting to do certain skills for whatever reason. You either want to be able to defend yourself against a brutal attacker who doesn't care about you, or you want to look good and show off!

3. Emotionally-sterile. One of the most important missing elements from most martial arts and self defense training courses is emotion. The reality is that, a self defense situation is a highly-charged - highly emotional experience. It is one of the most emotional situations you could ever find yourself in.

Still, the greatest percentage of training time in most classes is spent on step-by-step technique training and theory - not on learning how to stay focused and operate when you're under certain types of psycho-emotional stress - each stress-type working cause your body to work (or not!) in very specific ways!

If you're serious about wanting to learn the skills necessary for surviving a real-life attack, then you owe it to yourself to find a self defense training program that will provide you with the lessons you'll need! In fact...

You must learn things you never wanted to know

You must do things most people don't want to have to do, and...

You must experience things that will scare you, unnerve you, and make you feel uncomfortable!

If not, well - you know what your other choice is, right? And he's waiting out there for you!


Is your self defense training giving you the sense of security, proven skills, and confidence you need to survive? If you're serious about getting the techniques, tactics and strategies that work in a women's self defense situation, then I want to help you.

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