Why do we need to know how to defend our self’s? This is a question we all need to do in our self’s.

The times we live are violent and they became more violent all the time. Every day you hear the news and someone become a victim of any kind of violence.
Humans as species have inside them the power to do violence and they do it in any form physical or by psychological ways.

The art of defending your self is not inside you when you are born, when you are born is only the willing to defend yourself or your loved ones if someone or something attacks you or them.
But humans are clever species and they find the way to defend them self by learning from attacks and try to find solutions in the attacks.
From this need start to grow the martial arts.

Of course in every century the attacks change is not the same attacks as if someone attacks you 400 hundred years ago or 1000 years ago. So the need is the same only the attacks and the forms of martial arts have changed.

Of course all martial arts look alike because we all have two arms and to legs, but the deference between them are when they invented from whom and for what reason. If they where to defend someone with a sword I think it’s not for everyday use, find something realistic.

Now I getting back in the question, why we need to learn to defend our self’s. I know that is difficult everyday to leave your house and go to learn something that you wish you will never have to use it in real life.

But believe me when reality strikes you may lose your life or the life of someone you love. I know we train thousands of hours only for one second in real life, and all the time we wish never to use it.

But it worth every second every pain every injury every penny, because you have a huge advantage if something really happened to save your life.

Stay focus, train correct, train hard and stay safe at all times.

Panos Zacharios