Saturday, March 7, 2009

Is Martial Arts Useful For Protection

By Nui Kahuna

Often times people will ask me, "Big, are self defense classes really worth going to? Will they surely help me if I get into trouble?"

The answer is Yes...and No to both questions.

Self defense classes are a good medium of learning how to defend or protect yourself from any possible foes. They also make you more mindful of what is occurring around you, and have also helped people get away from unpleasant events or situations.

So that's a good thing, and I'm not knocking their value. But if you want to really survive on the street, you have to be armed in some way.

You need not carry a gun, there are lots of non-lethal ways to protect yourself on the street.

You can take a martial arts program, but it obviously takes a lot of your time and effort, and that's what most of us doesn't have.

What's ironic here is that, most of the mooks have some martial arts experience or knowledge as well. Yes, you can defend yourself, but in a case like this you don't want to know who's better and who's not, and there is no assurance of winning the fight.

In a bad situation, you want to win, and win as quickly as possible. So you want a deadly first strike, or a deadly retaliatory strike.

Most crooks or mooks do not expect you to strike or fight back at all. Their weapons are your fears and their knowledge of the street. They will surprise attack and intimidate their victim.

They usually jump out of dark or dim places, and when you are unaware they rush you, and threaten you. And if they see your fear crawling all over you, they'd turn you into their victim and then, poof! They're gone.

It would take a lot of years of martial arts training to have the skills to beat one of these mooks at his own game.

There is a easier way to more than hold your own on the street.

As I've mentioned earlier, these junkies never expect their supposed victim to strike or fight back.

First thing you should carry is the personal alarm, it'ss the easy push button thing to activate. It creates a loud noise or sound which junkies hate because it could get them busted, so upon hearing the first sound of the alarm, they'd rather run. Once the personal alarm is On, only you can turn it off.

The next thing you need to carry must have a big strike capability, something that should be powerful enough to put down a mook with no sweat, and curl him down because you don't like to get screwed up physically, it should be hit and run.

And I'd suggest stun guns and pepper spray here.

These weapons are not lethal, they don't cause permanent or fatal damage, as the effects only lasts twenty to thirty minutes.

They just prevent the baddies from giving you any permanent or lethal damage. You should retaliate in self defense and run out of the area as quick as possible.

If you want to be a powerhouse, and you can be, regardless of your size or athletic prowess, with self defense products you are on top of every mook, crook and junkie.

And remember, these products doesn't work if you don't have them with you.

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