What You Don't Know Can Kill You: How Most Self-Defense Training Will Put You into Prison or the Ground

Everyone who trains or who has trained in a self-defense program. Every single self-defense program, martial arts style, and firearms training you’ve had or are taking is on the table.

In just a minute, we will give you the four components of self-defense (SD). These must be addressed if you want to stay out of prison or the morgue. Self-defense is a big subject intertwined with many smaller topics. We want you to grasp the entire picture that makes up effective self-defense. Your safety and freedom are based on a general understanding of the full spectrum. The lack of any one of these four is dangerous.

Understand most training goes into great depths of one component. Where this specialization becomes a problem is the deeper you get into one the easier it becomes to ignore other components. The trap is how easy it is to tell yourself a deep and narrow focus is all you need. In your current training you may get one or maybe more of these components, but we’ve never seen all four fully addressed in one school.

There’s no such thing as one-stop shopping for your self-defense needs. To get all these components, you have to look for them. This book is an introduction to what to look for.

Try to answer this question: What single component or limited combination were you taught?

The answer is: We don’t know and odds are neither do you. (When you see the components take a minute and figure out which of them your training spotlighted and what it didn’t.) But there’s a bigger problem: If you are unaware of these components you are at the mercy of your training. Why’s that a problem? You will be the one on the hook for what you do– not your instructors. You can’t put responsibility on someone else for your actions.

Now that you know these four components exist you can take control of your education. How do you do that? Keep reading.