Lion Self Defense Academy Training Methods and Concepts.

1. You must train for Multiple attackers realistically.

In reality no one waits their turn, you will have your opponents rush you all at one time. Therefore you must learn how to deal with multiple attackers.

2. Your enemy could be armed and understand that he may be armed.

You want to train against weapons, we live in a mixed weapons world. People will use many make shift objects to hurt you. They may also use all types of objects such as a knife or another cutting weapon. You must learn to deal and survive against weapons.

3. You must act.

There are plenty of martial artists who can deal with many aspects of martial arts, but yet can not deal with some yelling in their face. In essence they lack the ability to calm the situation down or they will over react and be hot headed and react too soon. Often these reactions will have witnesses watching. Then it gets them into legal trouble. You cant be an elephant in the tarpits, and you cant thread a needle. You must act.

4. You have to fight back.

if you sit their and defend all day, you will be overwhelmed. This is the problem with the word self defense. It pre-supposes all you will do is defend. You have to be able to act and the force must paramount the danger.

5. If your in public, there may be witnesses.

Martial Arts has always been more mental than physical. Granted we need to work the physical. But we need to train mental preparedness and survival instinct.There is a good chance of witneses, unless of course your ambushed. So a person must watch what they do and say.If your tempermental, than you need to not lose your cool. Because losing your cool can lead to legal trouble. You are often judged by the totality of circumstances. A totality of the circumstances standard suggests that there is no single deciding factor, that one must consider all the facts, the context, and conclude from the whole picture whether a citizen acted under color of law. The primary guide for this kind of substantive rule is the fact patterns from cases in which the courts have found that the criteria were met. There are many gray areas because human behavior is so infinitly varied.

What people are forgetting! Martial Arts is much more.

We often say that in order to be able to effectively defend yourself you must win on these grounds:

  1. You must be able to act.
  2. You must be able to defeat your attacker.
  3. You must be cleared of any criminal charges.
  4. You must be cleared of any civil charges.
  5. You most likely will have witnesses around.
  6. Your have to understand the possibility that your opponent may be armed.
  7. Your enemy might have his friends or buddies around.


    You must train with the following Training methods and concepts.

  1. Resistance when fighting against some one who is fighting back.
  2. No Resistance to Learn a technique, then add resistance back in for timing.
  3. Fight Against realistic agression and intention.
  4. Be an Athlete, It increases your survivability.
  5. High Probability Tactics
  6. Verbal Skills, because if you have a gun to your head, thats all you may have.
  7. Develop Timing.
  8. Analytical Skills.
  9. Siutational Judgement.
  10. Positional Judgement.
  11. Enviormental Awareness.
  12. Training for an event means recreating the event.