Cues, Clues and Signals that Allow You To Detect an Attack Before it Occurs!
The word 'AWARNESS' is mentioned many times in real self-defence training. Indeed, I talk about it often in my own manuals. Because it is so important in self-protection.
Why? Well you must understand that self-defence is about recognising the clues, cues and signals that allow you to detect or anticipate a potential violent situation before it occurs. This is what sets the professionals apart from the rest.
Self-defence is not only about physical techniques. In order to protect yourself properly you must also learn to develop what is termed by the professionals as 'mind mapping'.
You see, by using mental maps you will be able to anticipate and avoid confrontations before they happen. Let me explain, someone who wants to do you harm and confronts you face to face gives out certain clues, cues and signals before he makes his attack.
Now a lot of those clues are invisible to the untrained eye. Where as people trained in mind mapping will be able to recognise them and act accordingly to the threat. Thus, giving them more chance of survival.
However, untrained people will ignore and not even notice these signals therefore; they are placing themselves in a dangerous position. So learning to read the signs will allow you to interpret patterns and predict outcomes so that you can respond to what ever happens to confront you.
Mental mapping is an essential part of self-protection procedures but for them to be truly effective you must refine them by learning how predators bent on violence go about their daily dirty business of hurting and robbing people. Plus, how and why they choose their victims.
This means, learning to recognise their behavioural patterns and their victim strategies. Next, you must develop the skills to resolve those confrontations.Through experience and by consistently applying prevention and awareness strategies they soon become habits and then automatic.
"Successful Self Defence is not about winning a fight but avoiding it"
If you don't understand this you are missing the point.
Real life scenario training drills will desensitise your fears of violence. By increasing your ability. Lack of knowledge or experience in mind mapping leads to people becoming naïve when it comes to their own safety.
In turn, they end up placing themselves in dangerous situations oblivious to the danger signs. So they are unlikely to react effectively and just freeze with fright and shock under severe stress.
Mind mapping in the martial arts often means unrealistic perceptions of whatreal combat is like. Sparring in the controlled environment of a dojo, is simply that, and should not be confused with the chaos, blood and snot of a real street fight or attack.
Unfortunately 80% of all martial arts techniques will not give you the ability to defend yourself effectively.
In conclusion, real-self defence means developing and using accurate mental mapping. By building a mental database of knowledge about self-protection and awareness strategies will teach you how to react so that if violence comes knocking on your door you'll know how to react to it in the proper fashion.
The instinct to survive is in all of us therefore, protection and awareness through mind mapping, building mental maps in your mind is far more important than developing only physical techniques.
Best of all, most of us already have them all you have to do is dust them off and improve the ones you already have.
So what are you waiting for?
