Self-Defense Simplified

Hit him fast.

Hit him hard.

Hit him a lot.

– Alain Burrese

Self-Defense Simplified

I understand the importance of having a good defense, but I also agree that you won’t stop the other person without a good offense. A quote attributed to General George S. Patton states, “Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.” I also remember Kelly McCann saying in Brass Tacks Kembativz, “You cannot defend to a victory. That’s just delaying the inevitable ass kicking. At some point you have to attack.”

Former bouncer, self-defense instructor, and author of more than 20 books, Geoff Thompson, says, “People often ask me what is the best means of physical defence and I always reply, ‘learn to hit f#%king hard,’ and that’s the bottom line. Learn how to hit very very hard and you’ll come out of most situations on top.”

Thompson has a point. As I said at the beginning, hit him fast, hit him hard, and hit him a lot. This simple formula will get you out of most self-defense situations.

I  still believe in training, and for pure self-defense and fighting, a good combatives program such as taught by Kelly McCann, or the FAST classes by Bill Kip and RMCAT classes by Peyton Quinn can help a person learn to defend themselves with some basics. And besides the introduction of adrenal stress, people in these learn basic strikes and how to do them fast and hard. And then you keep at them until your opponent is down and/or you can get to safety.

Of course I also believe in training in martial arts, with Hapkido being my primary art. And while training in martial arts provides self-defense skills if you train with that emphasis, the training will also provide other attributes and benefits depending on how you train. (And yes, I understand that not all martial artists train for self-defense, even sometimes when they say they do.)

I do think one of the keys to being able to his a person fast, hard and a lot is having the proper mindset. This is one of the reasons I wrote the short book How To Protect Yourself By Developing A Fighter’s Mindset. The mental aspects can be more important than the physical, because without the mindset, a person may not engage in the physical techniques needed to stop an attack.

Of course this isn’t all you need to know, but when it comes down to it, hitting fast, hard and a lot is self-defense simplified.

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