Dinsmore - Modern Self Defense The Practical Guide to Protecting Yourself

Modern Self Defense

The Practical Guide to Protecting Yourself

Chad Dinsmore

Copyright 2016 Chad Dinsmore

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 1537483021

ISBN-13: 978-1537483023

Disclaimer

The information, stories and articles contained in this book are the opinion of the individual author based on their personal observations and years of experience. Neither the author or publisher assume any liability whatsoever for the use of or inability to use any or all information contained in this publication. Use this information at your own risk.

DEDICATION

To Jimmy H. Woo; for spreading the knowledge of Kung Fu San Soo to America.

To my father, Richard Dinsmore

Table of CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you for purchasing Modern Self Defense The Practical Guide to Protecting Yourself. I believe this book is a great foundational introduction to real world fighting and will truly change or improve your concept of fighting and the reality behind fighting.

I would like to thank my father Richard Dinsmore who introduced me to the reality of fighting and teaching me throughout the years a deadly martial art known as Kung Fu San Soo.

From the author

My goal with this book is to teach you how to fight for the street. Period. I dont want to try to confuse you with any fancy martial arts terms or lingo. I wrote this book to be simple to read, and somewhat entertaining to keep your interest and not put you to sleep. I use real world examples and different martial arts to show you the whole picture, and not just biased to one martial art. Every martial art is deadly, if you know how to use it properly. This book will provide practical, simple, and effective techniques for the streets. I hope that this book will change your life, boost your confidence, and teach you new tools in your current toolbox for self-defense. This book applies to all levels of fighters, from a person who has never tried martial arts, to an experienced martial artist. This book should help everyone who reads it. This book is straight to the point. Thank you for purchasing my book.

introduction

Are you constantly scared in public because you arent sure what you would do if someone confronted you in a hostile fashion? What about if you were walking in public and nobody was nearby, and someone tried to rob you?

I designed this book to be simple, direct to the point, and easy to understand. I will teach you lethal hand to hand combat techniques, mental training and preparation, effective kicking techniques, the vital targets to aim for in a street fight, how to use power properly, situational awareness, and much, much more. So lets dive right in!

Chapter 1

situational Awareness

Ever walk around in public while looking down at your phone? I bet you have. Or that time you were in the grocery store aisle blocking the path for other grocery shoppers to move by you in the aisle. Even that time you bumped shoulders with someone in public, and you quickly apologized to that person.

Thus enters situational awareness. These are all examples of modern day people making simple awareness mistakes.

What is situational awareness? Why is it important? How does it apply to modern self-defense? These are all important questions, and the only way you can remember to practice situational awareness, is by knowing why you do it in the first place.

Situational awareness is simply when you know what is happening in the environment you currently are in. Lets take our real world example provided earlier in this chapter. You are walking in public on the sidewalk, and you are constantly staring down at your phone. Since you are looking down at your phone, you cannot observe what is happening around you. Of course, you have your ears for sound and nose for smell, but in the real world, without constant observation of your present surroundings, you will not be able to react in time if someone were to attack you.

Why is Situational Awareness Important?

Situational awareness is important in all situations because it will give you the proper reaction time if something were to happen. Some modern day examples could be an unsupervised child trying to cross the street when a car is coming, and with situational awareness you could save that child from getting run over by that car. Maybe it was a girl that you just walked by and if you did see her, instead of looking down at your phone, you might of said hi, and possibly landed a conversation and a future date. Now, I purposely wanted to provide some non-self-defense examples here, so you can learn that situational awareness is not only beneficial for self-defense, but everything we do in life!

Use your eyes!

Observation using your eyes is critical to situational awareness. Instead of looking down at your phone while walking in public, try checking your surroundings more often. What I mean by that is to look up and around you, and yes this means behind you as well. Look around, observe your surroundings, ask yourself, is this a safe street to be walking on? or are there any suspicious looking people around me?.

If you look around in the modern world, you will see the majority of people are looking down on their phones. This is reducing the lack of situational awareness and compromising their safety, and yes yours as well.

I think by now you are starting to understand where I am getting at with using your eyes for situational awareness. For me personally, I am constantly looking around and monitoring the environment I am in. You want to do it in a casual and relaxed manner. Say you are at a bar or wedding after party, everyone is drinking and having a great time, imagine yourself standing there having a drink but now you are using situational awareness to monitor your surroundings. You see a ton of drunk people, stumbling on their words and most likely, acting a fool. You are talking to your friend and having a drink, you can observe what is going around you, and in case of a fight breaking out, someone pulling a gun or other weapon, or someone attempts to reach out and grab you, now you can react properly. Dont worry, we will go over how to react in later chapters.

Using your eyesight is the strongest factor in situational awareness. Using your eyesight to observe your surroundings in conjunction with your ears to listen, you will be ready for the next attacker or situation.

Remember, this chapter is solely about awareness, in later chapters we will cover what you should do if you are attacked. By the end of this book, you will be mentally prepared for an attacker, even without any prior fighting experience.

The goal with situational awareness is not to let it consume you. As in, dont turn awareness into paranoia or fear of being attacked. Rather, you want to simply monitor your surroundings using your eyes, ears, nose, and touch. Simply observe. With practice it will come naturally.