The Number 1 Reason People Lose Fights | Self-Defense Training

The Number 1 Reason People Lose Fights - Fear of getting hurt causes hesitation, and hesitation can be deadly in a physical encounter.

[kankurou]

I definitely agree. However, I’d even expand your reasoning into how people train.

You say trust your training (and we should. I dont wan’t to say someone SHOULDN’T trust their training, but we all have to agree that at some point there is a level of scrutiny you should have in your training and that there is bad training out there.) but what if your training is based around this fear of getting hurt?

To illustrate my point, I’m going to give an exaggerated example: What if your training is to curl up into a fetal position with your hands covering your head? That is to say: your training could be too heavily influenced on your fear of getting hurt. Basically, TOO MUCH DEFENSE, NOT ENOUGH HURTING THE BAD GUY.

I think many martial arts/self defense systems focus too much on not getting hurt, rather than focusing more on injuring the bad guy (I realize I’m talking in general terms here, but this is the first video I’ve seen from you).

We see what I said above in videos online all the time. There’s usually one person doing the violence and one person trying to stop the violence from happening to them (and failing).

Injuring the bad guy is the only way to stop (asocial, brutal, murderous) violence from happening to you. He’s trying to injure you; you need to injure him first.