A Guide To Understanding Self Defense
What is self-defense?
The word itself is easy to understand, it is an act of defending oneself from any kind of harm caused by any external factor. In today’s world when every news is about violence against wsomen, children, old people and even men basically towards anyone and everyone, it is of utmost importance to learn some basic self-defense to protect ourselves and our loved ones.
Self defense does not mean attacking, it means the act of stopping the attack and under the law self defense is given a provision as “right to self defense”. Initially the limbs remain stiff and there is a lot of awkwardness in relation to the learning of any new form of art. So you can get yourself enrolled into any of the classes and learn the basics from them.
What do self-defenses classes teach you?
- Strength training: if he opposite person is bigger than you, stronger than you with proper strength training you will be able to handle person of any size and weight. In self-defense classes the instructors make you work along with people who are bigger than you in size
- Basic techniques: The instructors in the self-defense classes start with basic likes punching, boxing, blocking, kicking etc. participants are made to train with instructors of opposite sex to understand how to tackle any one.
- Mock situation: once you have been trained enough in the self-defense classes, the instructors arrange a mock session to apply the techniques you learned so far.
Benefits of self-defense classes
- Violence is not limited to women only, even men, children and old people are victims too. Children can defend from themselves from adults and bullies. Men and women have similar benefits, they can tackle people bigger in size than them. Old people may or not able to defend others but they can at least themselves from their attacker.
- Self defense classes also improves focus which is very important when you are in a situation and looking for a way out or solve the problem.
- These are all some of the techniques that give birth to a healthier you, and your heart, lung and the cardiovascular system works more efficiently when you have the right regular exercises.
- Self defense classes make you aware of your surrounding even if you are walking on the street in your own world you will be still conscious of everything around you and you will not be caught by surprise
- Self defense classes improves your overall balance and stability of the body and the mind. Because your focus and awareness has heightened. When you are stopping an attack or tackling the attacker you need to have balance to maintain you ground and save yourself.
The drawback of self-defense classes
- People think with just attending a couple of self-defenses classes for 2-3 hours will make them experts and they will be able to defend themselves. This is a very wrong notion because in order to become an expert even in the basic blocking and kicking the person has to practice it religiously otherwise it won’t stick.
- People develop over confidence. People think they are unstoppable and no one can harm them and get into serious situation without any proper training and then blame that self-defense does not work.
Conclusion
Self-defense should be learned to protect one self and those who cannot protect themselves but never used for attacking or harming someone. It should never be used the first resort for any kind of dispute, you should try to resolve and cal the situation by engaging in words and talking to the opposite person. To make the maximum use of the pandemic times, while you stay at home, you can get yourself enrolled in these classes, join for two or three days and enjoy the art of self-defense.
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