Krav Maga Combat Concepts
The following information is to help better understand conflict and the mindset of the attacker. I will be holding a free community workshop in Dec (date to be announced). this will be open to all. I encourage other school owners to come and lend your knowledge as well.
1. Defense Versus counter attack
a. defense merely delays the oncoming attack from overwhelming you.
b. counter attack stops the attacker by attacking him not defending against him.
2. Attackers Mentality (4 types of attackers)
* Mugger – A mugger thinks of robbing you as a job and does it with no remorse for his actions. to succceed in doing his job he is always experienced.
* Desperate Criminal – he is turning to crime because he is desperate for money or needs drugs. he is very dangerous because his desperation makes him capable of doing anything.
*Dare Devil / Hard Guy. He is showing off for a friend or possibly trying to pass gang initiation. he is the least threatening of all the attackers but is dangerous because of his pride.
* Predator. By Far the most dangerous types of attackers. he thinks of you as his prey. He wants to hurt you as his first primary goal, if he gets money from you it is just a bonus to him. All meetings with a predator are extrememly dangerous.
All attackers look for three things. 1 – is it going to be easy. 2. what will I gain from it. – 3. will I get caught
Victims Mentality – victims are people who believe that if they are good to everyone that nothing bad will happen to them. they are Idealist and they are always chosen when they have something of value because an attacker can see that it will be easy and that they won’t get caught. In a dangerous situation, a victim reacts to the fear inside of them and either Freezes or fail ineffectively, or runs wild with no direction and no awareness to their surroundings.
Victimn are usally oblivious to their surroundings and when they do decide to fight back, which is rare they are the appidamy of a half-hearted attack and usally earn themselves more damage. Victims will say things like” what did I do to deserve this”, or “how could this happen to me?”
Warriors Mentality – A warrior is a master of themselves. He’she responds with a fully committed effort to stop the attackers. He is a realist and is always aware of his surroundings. A warrior lives his life with purpose and with the purpose of being happy and he knows that no one has the right to theaten his happiness, so he instantly responds to his attacker with all of the intensity of a person defending the very essence of life.
A warrior understand the choices in self defense. Diffuse – discourage with pain – incapacitate or Knock out – Physiological Discouragement – Injure to some degree – or lastly, destroy.
learning to defend yourself is as much as a mindset as it is hardskills. which one are you? a victim or a warrior!!!!!
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[...] Similarly,Paul Evans explains that self-defense is very different than a counter-attack. A defense merely delays the oncoming attack from overwhelming you, whereas a counter-attack stops the attacker by attacking him…which is quite different than defending against him. [...]