10 Reasons You Need To Learn Self Defense
There are a lot of great reasons that you should learn self defense. These facts should convince you to take the plunge and commit to some practical self-defense training.
1. Violence is real - It’s easy to dismiss the stories of attacks against women and say that it would never happen to you but it can happen to you. Every day women get attacked who used to say it would never happen to them. All women are sensitive and all women are at danger. Undeterred by the chance that you are able to be assaulted won’t replacement the reality that you are able to be.
2. If you don’t know how to defend yourself you have no options in an attack - If you are attacked knowing how to fight back or having a self defense weapon could save your life, but if you don’t know how to get away or you don’t have a weapon you could be badly hurt or killed. Do you really want to take that risk?
3. Anyone can be attacked - You might think that because you live in a certain neighborhood, dress a certain way, make a certain amount of money, or have a certain kind of job that you are not at risk of being attacked. But your lifestyle, income, and social status won’t protect you. Any woman could be attacked.
4. Self defense can save your life - Even knowing just a few basic self defense moves can be enough to scare off an attacker or get away from an attacker in time to save your life. You have the power to protect your own life during an attack if you have the knowledge and confidence to fight back.
5. Women are raised to be passive - One of the biggest factors that make women targets for assaults is that women are raised to be docile and passive. Women are taught to not speak up, to not assert themselves. How many times have you known a woman who was having trouble with something but could not speak up about it? How many times have you done that? Women are taught to be quiet and subservient and to not complain. Predators take advantage of that.
When women are attacked by people they already know it is often because the men who attack them know that women are not going to make a fuss and not going to make a scene. Most rapes go unreported because women can not bear to tell their stories. Most domestic assaults go uncharged because women are raised to think they should put up with spouses that hit them.
Women need to learn to break through that passivity and make a scene when necessary. Could you yell and scream and try to get someone’s attention if you were being attacked? You need to be able to do that and learning self-defense can help women learn to be more confident and less passive.
6. Your children learn from you - If you want your children to grow up feeling confident and knowing how to defend themselves you need to know how to defend yourself. Teaching your kids to be aware of their surroundings and drilling them in self defense techniques will make sure that they won’t panic in a crisis situation and forget everything they know about self defense. You can not teach them self defense if you do not know it.
7. Predators are prepared and you need to be too. If you are assaulted chances are good that the person attacking you has previously attacked others. Predators usually have a plan, and they do not count on you fighting back. They count on the element of surprise to make the attack successful. Take away that element of surprise by being prepared and you can sometimes prevent the attack.
8. You can not count on divine intervention. You have to help yourself. Have you ever heard the expression, “Pray to catch the bus, and then run as fast as you can”? Well that applies to being assaulted too. Pray that you make it out alive, and then fight as hard as you can and you might make it out alive.
9. You can’t rely on anyone else to save you. If you are attacked hopefully you can get someone else’s attention and hopefully some one else will step in and help you or call police to help you. But you can not count on anyone else coming to your rescue. If you are assaulted you are all that you have, so you need to know how to save yourself.
10. You could die. Just think about that for a moment. You could die. Your life could end as a result of an attack. Is not that reason enough to learn how to protect yourself? If you are attacked and you do not know any techniques to defend yourself statistically your chances of survival are not great. Knowing how to defend yourself and knowing how to survive an attack can be the only things that keep you alive through a serious attack.
Learning self-defense is more than just taking a class or reading a book. You need to know how to not panic during an attack and how to read a situation and an attacker instantly. You need to be able to know how to disarm an attacker and how to use a weapon yourself. If your attacker has a gun and you manage to get it away from him but you do not know how to fire a gun having that gun is not going to do you much good. Only continued self-defense training can give you the ability to respond with a clear head in an attack situation.
You can never know if you will be targeted by a criminal at some point. All you can do is know how to defend yourself if you are. And if you know how to defend yourself then you have a much greater chance of fighting off that attack or surviving that attack. When you are assaulted even if you are injured if you survive that attack then you win and the attacker loses.
