Rule # 1 : "There No Rules On The Street"
This is the first concepts the individual who is new to reality training for self-defense and street fighting must grasps and come to terms with. Like a steady state of awareness this tenant must be entirely internalized.
Attackers, assailants, criminals, street - thugs, and street fighters do not operate with - in the boundaries of civilized behavior. They stalk, they manipulate, they frighten, terrorize and are willing to do both physical and psychological short term as well as long term harm, in order to achieve their desired goal, whatever that goal may be.
It is vitally important for the aware person to know, understand, and come to terms with this reality, and to make sure that they train accordingly. No person, group of people, or governing agency is responsible for our personal well being, protection or safety.
THE INDIVIDUAL IS...
There are no exceptions to this rule - there are only different levels of conflict. This means that
in order to stay within the boundaries of the law and reasonable behavior you should always fight to the level of your opponent, meaning;
If the opponent is unarmed - so should the individual be...
If the opponents is armed so should the individual be...
As stated earlier - there are different levels of conflict that the trained individual must be
aware of, meaning;
If you are ambushed or seriously losing a conflict than reasonable behavior means doing whatever is needed in order to ensure that you survive.
These realities entail being aware and constantly being able to assess the situation, the opponent, scan the surroundings, and scanning the environment.
Is This A Fight?
Is This A One On One Fight?
Are Is This A Multiple Opponent Situation?
Are There Weapons Involved?
Is The Opponent Psychotic - Mentally Unstable?
Does Your Attacker Seem To Be Intent On Killing You?
Are There Any Avenues Of Escape?
Are You Alone or Is A Member Of Your Family or Close Friend With You?
Are They Able To Defend Themselves, Do They Know What To Do In Case Of An Emergency?
If the individual does not have the physical ability to defend themselves than your job is going to be even more difficult. This reality makes the speed of action, surprise, aggression, and the willingness to carry this event through to it's logical conclusion even more vital.
All of these realities bring to bear the importance of awareness, and this is why the BKE system starts with this concept. Because in the Real World the best fight is the one avoided...
Rule # 2: "Keep Your Training Simple and Savage"
This is the BKE equivalent to the K.I.S.S. principle and this rule is a direct result of rule # 1. It is a direct reflection on rule # 1.
If we look at the 39 points survival plan we will see how the training mechanisms incorporated in the individuals training program will allow or not allow them to successfully fight - off, defend, and survive an attacker.
Attacks do not take place under civilized rules and regulations. There are no mediators, no referee's, no corner men to stop the event. Attacks do not take place in sterile environments, clean and even surfaces, or wide open spaces.
Attacks do not normally take place with adequate preparation time. They are quick, sudden, aggressive, invasive, usually unwarranted, and violent. They take place anywhere, anytime, at any moment.
In bars, laundry mats, stores, parking lots, parking garages, restruants, stop lights, on the highway, or homes. They happen on the street, at parks, at the beach, in the rain, snow, sand, mud, heat and cold.
They involve one on one encounters, multiple opponents, weapons, threats, intimidation, and many other scenarios. And they are hardly ever random in there nature, the individual who is doing the attacking or ambushing knew before hand what it was they were going to do, they were only looking for a suitable victim.
The individuals training must involve these contingencies in order to properly prepare them both for the physical as well as the psychological eventualities of conflict in the Real World.
This system recognizes these facts of life, does not sugar coat them and has implemented a training strategy that fully prepares the individual for the many circumstances of conflict.
Rule # 3: "Hit First - Hit Hard - Hit Often"
As rule # 1 is a direct response to the 39 point survival plan. As rule # 2 is a direct result of rule # 1. So is rule # 3 to be considered a continuation of this thought process.
First - off, it is important for the individual who has been placed in a situation of defending themselves to understand and be at peace with the fact that they did not ask to be attacked. They did not seek out confrontation and therefore did not willfully wish to engage in conflict.
(SEE RULE #1)
While much of this rule is of a physical nature, the ability to carry it through is a mental state of being; meaning that the individual must develop a controlled aggressive and aware state of preparedness.
This realization brings to bear the importance of attaining the "proper mind set." This means that the individual must see and understand some fundamental concepts and strategies of conflict, all of which deal with the different aspects of awareness, alertness, anticipation, and preparedness (or readiness).
This ability is dependent more or less on the individuals beliefs and convictions, but to a certain degree can be manipulated and thus governed through psychological programing that takes place during their training.
Techniques that are designed to increase awareness, will in turn heighten the individuals alertness level and thus prepare them more for the physical realities of potential danger as well as conflict.
There are also psycho-physiological training techniques which can be implemented through training programs that will heighten the individuals aggressiveness.
There fore the objective of these 3 rules is to rid the individual of the more common responses of being attacked; surprise, fear, shock, dismay, helplessness, and the like.
John H Grissom
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