A Hard Self Defense Day , Friday, September 4, 2009 at 2:12 AM, in

Real self defense training can help keep a person safe, and help them survive a violent encounter, but things aren't always that clean cut. The fact is if you're in a bad situation your training won't be an instant fix. Will it help sure, but it isn't a guarantee and no instructor can make that claim. In the end it is up to you and your will to survive, because sometimes you aren't the one who is supposed to win the fight. The good guys don't always win, but if you want to you need to train and than fight like hell.
Not long ago on cable there was a reality show where a group of young women went to receive self defense training. The instructor showed them a number of practical solid techniques and the women all enjoyed the training and left the studio laughing and confident that they could protect themselves against any threat. Problem was when they went home and asked their athletic father to pretend to attack them, but when they fought back they found their techniques were useless. Now you could say they only trained for a few hours or that the techniques simply didn't work, but the fact is that they didn't play to win.




One of the reasons it is hard to train with a partner in self defense is that if you go at it hard you can and will seriously injure your training partner. If you are attacked by someone larger and stronger than you though you need to go all out, and you can't worry about hurting them. In situations where size and strength are disproportionate it won't be easy, but you can win if you keep fighting and you know what to do. If a 5'2" 110lbs woman encounters a 6'4" 250lbs man the fight won't be easy, but the woman can win if she's willing to keep fighting until he's disabled or she's able to escape.
Now we've all seen martial arts films where tiny women throws a monster size guys or one man faces a dozen attackers and wins. Well, in a real fight things don't work that way, because large men aren't easy to lift and when you start getting hit by more than one attacker your chances of survival only go down. If you can hit an attacker where it hurts or if you do enough damage so you can run away you might survive. Also you have to be willing to risk being hurt, so you can accomplish more. There is a big different between getting hurt beating them back and getting hurt while they beat you to death.
There are no absolute, but with training you keep improving your odds. When a bear size guy picks you up off the ground and tries to drag you off the situation is pretty bad, but your only doomed if you don't fight back. Can't get your hands free use your elbows, and if you can't do that use your head. Once you train your body to do a complete skill set you'll be able to deal with whatever they throw at you, and persevere when things start getting rough. Prisons are filled with men that are over 6' tall and lift weights all the time, and eventually they will get out, but if you know how to fight back their size and strength will have to overcome your training and will to fight. Don't go quietly and don't ever stop fighting.Read More : How to Punch Harder - The Knockout Secret