Defending Yourself 101 - Stay Out Of Jail By Not Confusing Defending Yourself With Fighting!

There are a lot of programs out there, both online and off

, promising to make you a master of defending yourself.

Unfortunately, many of them have less to do with defending yourself, and more to do with street fighting. And, while both can look the same, there is a huge difference between a fight and actually defending yourself in a real-world street encounter with a violent assailant.

And, do you want to know a secret? Well, it's not really a secret at all.

It's this...

Self-defense is a legally definable term.

That's right. To be able to claim that you were defending yourself, you must meet certain, very specific guidelines. And, as an ex-cop myself, I can tell you that the police and district attorney know what is and what is not self-defense.

For the record, here are a few so-called self-defense programs that will cause you to be defending yourself against the criminal justice system:

1. A program that teaches you to "go ballistic" and just jump on an attacker and beat him into the pavement. To prove that you were defending yourself, you must show that you did the minimum necessary to stop the attack and get to safety.

2. MMA or competition-based sport martial arts systems. Rules or no rules, if you are involved in a competitive sport that somehow justifies, or gives you, a morbid sense of pleasure from hurting other people, then you are not studying or developing the skills for defending yourself. It's funny. When I was a cop, just about every fight that I broke up involved both combatants telling me that he was "just defending himself."

For the record, it's impossible for both combatants in a real self defense situation to be the "defender!"

3. Any program which neglects the important pre-fight phases of a self-defense situation. Defending yourself begins long before the physical punches, kicks, grabs, or weapon attacks are coming at you. Any program that avoids tactical evasion, escaping from the situation, and other verbal and non-physical lessons for defending yourself and jumps straight to fighting is cheating you in two ways.

First, the program is cheating you out of a ton of things that you can do to avoid having the situation go physical in the first place. And, it's setting you up for possible legal consequences if you do have to end up defending yourself against a real attacker.

If you want to learn the secrets, strategies, and tactics for effectively defending yourself, then you must find a teacher or program that understands the difference. If you're looking to learn how to fight, then call it that and don't disguise it as something else.

If you do, you just might find that, after the law is finished with you, you'll be defending yourself against "Big Bubba" and the other members of the "Jailhouse Gang - if you know what I mean!"

by: Jeffrey Miller

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