SELF DEFENSE 🥋🇺🇸 #antibullying both of the boys got attacked , use #BJJ to protect themselves ! Proud #jiujitsu.The thing about self-defense is that you don’t need it until you absolutely need it. It is difficult to be prepared for as the intensity of that sort of situation is very hard to mimic. Self-defense isn’t winning fights. It’s self-preservation. It’s getting away. If a person wants to take your wallet, it might ruin your week, but it won’t have the lasting and painful effects of being assaulted. With that in mind, the goal of self-defense is often to discourage the assailant to the point that the effort or pain is not worth the pursuit. I, along with pretty much everyone on the planet who has practiced full-contact martial arts for an extended period of time, am sickened by the invention of weekend self-defense courses and the like. The sale of self-defense as a buzzword or health trend is ignorant at best. It would be nice if we could download the necessary skills as if we were in the Matrix, making us able to execute them under pressure after just a few repetitions. However, this is not reality. In order to be able to pull off anything in a high-pressure situation, we need practice. Lots of practice. Why BJJ is a Useful for Self Defense Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is a grappling art that uses skeletal leverage to either a) create space or b) take it away. Often, the two are used in conjunction to control the movement of another person who may be significantly stronger than the grappler, but does not understand how to use their body in the same way. In essence, an education in Jiu Jitsu is an education in space management. This is why BJJ is such a versatile tool in violent interactions. If someone is looking to strike, you can control them until help arrives or send them into a dreamlike slumber with a choke simply by taking away the correct space. If someone is looking to take control of you, or put you in a compromising position, you can create the necessary space to get away or stop the assault. Since most people are not familiar with these concepts, it doesn’t take much training to be significantly more advanced than an untrained person