How This is Different Than Other Self Defense Training

[Arthur Stone]

If you think self-defense is about learning how to fight that you are
sadly mistaken. Knowing what self-defense is is the difference between
doing it well or winding up in a heap of trouble.
First off let's talk about what self-defense isn't. Self-defense is
not about winning or losing, and it's not about fighting. It's about
living or dying, and your ability to survive an assault on your life.
  Common sense good manners and good habits will serve you far
better than any physical fighting ability. Why? Because if you don't
have common sense good manners and good habits and all you know how to
do is fight than that will always be the place you will find yourself
in.   It's critical when talking about the topic of self-defense,
that we not confuse sport fighting with practical defense fighting
strategies. Many martial arts these days are anchored in sport, and as
such do not teach practical applications in self-defense. I want to be
clear here that I am not criticizing or downplaying the importance of
martial arts and its place in the world. I believe all training is
good training but let's not confuse systems.   Many of the
martial arts over the years have become sport based, meaning they have
rules and regulations they must follow and adhere to achieve their
objective, which in most cases is to gain points, or amass points
through repeated contact with their opponent.   Any self-defense
training worth its salt is not about how many times you can hit
somebody. But how quickly you can end the confrontation, we are
talking 5 seconds or less. The object of self-defense is to get out of
harms way as quickly as possible, eliminating any threat of further
violence. The most efficient way to do that is with extreme swift and
brutal violence.   It's very much the old adage, you must fight
fire with fire, but to be realistic. A whole bundle of things would
have to go wrong for ever to get to that point. You have to be
completely oblivious to any kind of violent situation arising, which
in most cases you can see a long way off. You would also have to be an
extremely bad mannered conversationalist to antagonize someone to the
point of aggression and assault. The bottom line is violence is always
a last resort.   So the question then becomes why learn self-
defense? And the answer is, because when you know how to defend
yourself in a strategic, calm and intelligent way you have the ability
to alter circumstance meaning you're more confident and sure of
yourself, which becomes a trait most attackers seem to shy away from.
  With confidence, comes high self-esteem, and with high self-
esteem you can achieve anything. Learning a few key principles in
proper self-defense will put you in control of your circumstances and
allow you to protect your most valuable asset that being you and the
ones you love.   When you can remain calmly prepared in a
survival situation you've already determined the outcome. Learn the
secrets of proper self-defense and find out for yourself how powerful
you really are. Find out more about this Self Defense