Street Self Defense - Why Be Limited to 1 Style of Self Defense When You Can Defend Yourself With 4?

In the world of self defense and martial arts training, most people believe that 1 method - one approach or style - is all you need to protect yourself. When, the truth is that, the more options you have in any given situation, the greater will be your chances for success.

This is true in the business world - true with regards to setting and achieving goals...

...and it is especially true when we're talking about being able to protect yourself against danger.

Could you imagine how successful military or police professionals would be if they trained this way? Especially the special forces of each branch - the teams trained to be able to handle an emergency situation at a moment's notice?

These groups, who have no idea where they'll be going next, or what the next situation will present them with, don't have the luxury of having a favorite "style," or method for getting results and winning. That's why they train to have different strategies, tactics, and techniques - so that they can be ready and able to adapt to whatever a particular situation or enemy presents them with.

And, if you're serious about being able to protect yourself against a real assailant, in a real street self defense situation, then you must be able to adapt to whatever he throws at you!

Instead of being limited to just one style or approach to self defense against a raging assailant intent on hurting you, here are 4 different methods, or strategies, that will allow you to meet your aggressor with the right tactics against his own.

4 Self Defense Modes For Effective Street Self Defense

• Strong & Stable - Here, you hold your ground and use your strength and superior positioning to stop his attempts to get at you. You use the principle of using your strong points against his weak ones to crush his attack and bring him under your control. In the world of Japanese martial arts, this is very much like Sumo.
  
• Long-Range, Defensive Angling - Against a bigger, more aggressive assailant, you use the principles of long-range distancing and strategic angling to cause his attacks to miss you, while simultaneously opening his own targets to you. From this newer, more advantageous position, you crash back in with powerful, full-body attacks that knock him back and down. Judo and jujitsu are good examples of this type of strategy.
  
  
• Direct, Committed Aggression - Before he ever gets a chance to touch you, you explode forward and take the fight to him. He finds himself going on the defense against your onslaught of punches, kicks, and other directed techniques that blast him backwards before he ever has a chance to know what happened! If we were to look for an example of this type of forward-moving, "get-'em" kind of fight strategy, Karate and Tae kwon do almost immediately come to mind.
  
• Slippery Evasion - Using this strategy, you use tricky, last-second timing to evade and avoid his incoming attacks. He finds that, what he thought was an easy target in front of him, is now a formidable adversary who has him tied up or off balance and reeling. This is the kind of strategy and principles that we would associate with the Japanese martial art of Aikido.

I know how easy and instinctive it might be to look at the above list and be drawn to one or two of these strategies. However, you must consider the fact that, street self defense is not the same thing as a contest with mutually agreed upon rules and a referee to insure fairness.

In fact, in a real-world, street self defense attack, you will not know...

• Who your attacker will be
  
• If he (or they) will be armed
  
• What the attack or situation will be like
  
• How much experience your attacker has at doing damage...
  
• ...and a whole range of other unknowns!

The only things that you will know are:

• That you're being attacked!
  
• What you think you know about handling a situation like the one you're in, and...
  
• How you feel about your attacker and the attack they're throwing at you.

That's it.

Based on that, and the attention you put into the details of any training you've had in dealing with THIS particular type of attack, you'll go into action.

The only question that remains is...will you be prepared for what will really happen in the moment? Not what you think might happen, or what some teacher told you.