Building the Better Fighter: How to Hone Your Self-Defense Skills
The art and science of self-defense is not something you inherit. Even the best fighting families have to teach their young in order to train them about the best ways to utilize certain techniques. If you’ve decided to learn self-defense for protection or for fitness, you must understand that you will not only be investing your time and effort on it, you will also be investing your commitment. Here are ways to hone your self-defense skills:
Learn from the right source
Honing your self-defense skills is like learning to play the violin. You could probably learn on your own and could very well execute the right moves decently but you may not be able to learn the proper techniques on how to utilize the moves properly.
When it comes to honing your self-defense skills, it’s important that you learn from someone who has been properly trained and have the right certifications. It’s quite easy to hurt yourself unnecessarily if you learn self-defense from the wrong source.
Take time to develop your skills
Learning a self-defense skill is not something that happens overnight. Some kung fu legends even tell of masters who teach their students one move and tell them to practice the same move again and again for a year. Within that period, the master doesn’t teach anything else. Extreme, probably but it does teach you about persistence and practice.
The key here is to allow your body to become familiar with a move. To execute a self-defense skill correctly, you must be able to know which parts of the body are utilized and how. You should also be able to understand why such a move is being used and for what. Once you have built muscle memory, it will be easier for you to execute the self-defense moves correctly.
Find a sparring partner
You could probably practice using a punching bag or a dummy but nothing beats a breathing, living, moving partner to spar with. A sparring partner will teach you many things that no dummy could – how an attacker could move, from where you could be attacked and how exactly you could execute a self-defense move. With a sparring partner, you could also learn the right pressure to use in order to subdue an attacker completely.
Practice, practice and more practice
To hone your self-defense skills, it’s important that you practice as much as you can. If you’re still a beginner, try to find the time to practice everyday. If the moves are unfamiliar to you, your muscles have to learn them over and over again in order for you to remember the sequences. If you’ve been learning self-defense for a while, it’s still important for you to practice in order to build your skills and make you an efficient and effective fighter.
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