Self defence comes from the confidence that you have the ability to defend yourself. A person uses physical action less than 10% of the time, but we focus on training the physical action over 90% of the time. We do this on purpose and for a very specific reason.
The majority of conflicts can be diffused or avoided altogether because of a person's Self-Confidence. The person being attacked, and how they respond to the initial intimidation will change how the attacker continues in their attack. This reaction in the person being attacked, is directly linked to self-confidence in the person being attacked (personal self confidence) and how well they believe they can defend themselves. If the attacker meets someone that stands up to them, commonly the attacker will just move on to another victim, which is good for the being being attacked. This comes from the self confidence of the person being attacked knowing they can defense themselves.
A person is able to stand up, verbally, and phsyically standing up to someone comes from this knowledge that a person can defend themselves. BJJ builds this specific self confidence from the Belt system, and from the sparring practice during class. Martial arts specifically does this from having the students with a distinct goal, and then after practice and training recieving a concrete indicator of the achievement of that goal. The goal in Brazilian Jiujitsu is the colored belt. Self confidence comes out of this setting goals, and then going out and achieving it.
HOwever in a self defense situation, physical actions take over which is why we train the physical action so much.
Unfortunately there are times where confidence, or words fail, then actions need to take over. BJJ have spend a lot of time travelling the world to find the most effective self-defense. Recently I had a student, who was 16 years old and was travelling to Spain for a school trip. She had an encounter with a pickpocket who lunged at her, trying to get her shoulder.
Responding to this attack at her shoulder, she defended herself using the techniques she was taught. She was able to get him to leave both of them alone. BJJ gave her the confidence to do this for both of them. For her the training in Brazilian Jiujitsu gave her a lot as she has said that if she did not train BJJ this self defense would not have happened. However also she wouldn't have been confident enough to take the trip in the first place.
The majority of conflicts can be diffused or avoided altogether because of a person's Self-Confidence. The person being attacked, and how they respond to the initial intimidation will change how the attacker continues in their attack. This reaction in the person being attacked, is directly linked to self-confidence in the person being attacked (personal self confidence) and how well they believe they can defend themselves. If the attacker meets someone that stands up to them, commonly the attacker will just move on to another victim, which is good for the being being attacked. This comes from the self confidence of the person being attacked knowing they can defense themselves.
A person is able to stand up, verbally, and phsyically standing up to someone comes from this knowledge that a person can defend themselves. BJJ builds this specific self confidence from the Belt system, and from the sparring practice during class. Martial arts specifically does this from having the students with a distinct goal, and then after practice and training recieving a concrete indicator of the achievement of that goal. The goal in Brazilian Jiujitsu is the colored belt. Self confidence comes out of this setting goals, and then going out and achieving it.
HOwever in a self defense situation, physical actions take over which is why we train the physical action so much.
Unfortunately there are times where confidence, or words fail, then actions need to take over. BJJ have spend a lot of time travelling the world to find the most effective self-defense. Recently I had a student, who was 16 years old and was travelling to Spain for a school trip. She had an encounter with a pickpocket who lunged at her, trying to get her shoulder.
Responding to this attack at her shoulder, she defended herself using the techniques she was taught. She was able to get him to leave both of them alone. BJJ gave her the confidence to do this for both of them. For her the training in Brazilian Jiujitsu gave her a lot as she has said that if she did not train BJJ this self defense would not have happened. However also she wouldn't have been confident enough to take the trip in the first place.
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