“self defense” is a legal term, not a strategy for winning a fight. Having a “defend yourself” mind set, can get you, and the people you care about killed, or badly hurt.
A line of defense can only hold for so long without attacking back, eventually it will get breached. It’s extremely hard to go on offense, when stuck on defense.
Want to win the fight? Instead of you defending, have the mind set to attack right back, but do so with more efficiency, and aggression than your enemy. Attacking your attacker, will force the opponent out of his comfort zone, causing him, rather than you, to defend himself, and lose.
Train Smart,
Sharir R, ICCS head instructor