There are a lot of ways to learn self defense, so why a self defense DVD over personal instruction, a book, or just watching a bunch of Bruce Lee movies? The DVD has some profound advantages over other forms of defense training: it's repeatable, it's always ready when you are, it contains expertise from a variety of experts, and it focuses on actually defending yourself instead of a more abstract form of martial art.
Whenever you take a class, you get whatever level of expertise your instructor has. When you learn self defense from your neighborhood photographer or pizza delivery boy, you get photographer- or pizza-delivery-boy-level. When you get a self defense DVD, you almost always get several experts - be they military, martial artists, or street fighters - who live self-defense as a daily lifestyle.
If you're going to learn computer programming, dancing, or cooking, you want to get your instruction from an expert. Don't try to learn defending yourself any differently. You have the option to get world-class instructors that have earned their stripes to show you their arts themselves...so do it!
If you were to take a class from your local photographer or even a decorated military officer that has killed enemies with his bare hands, you'll notice one thing stays consistent through all of them: repetition. You train muscle memory by repeating actions, plain and simple. In the instructed class, if you're falling behind, you have to struggle to keep up. If you get it right away, you have to wait for the bulk of the class to catch up. A self defense DVD allows you to perfectly modulate your own pace, so you're never bored or struggling.
The last major attribute of a self defense DVD versus a live class is deceptively simple: it's almost impossible to find a live class that actually focuses on simple defense. Every instructor has a paradigm and a style, whether they came to self defense from Tae Kwon Do or knife fighting in the streets. A self defense DVD combines enough different viewpoints -- and is usually edited properly -- to strip away everything but the absolute necessities.
It doesn't matter if you're a veteran, a beginner, a child, a girl, or a man -- self defense DVDs are designed to teach skills that can be used by anybody, on any target. They are easy-to-learn techniques that are deliberately chosen because they are easy to learn and have no particular requirement in terms of strength, speed, or size. As it turns out, the best self-defense techniques originate in knowledge and simple mechanics rather than might or mass.
Start today: invest in how to defend yourself DVD, and put the knowledge and talents of several men and women who have been there and done that to work for you. Learn at your own pace, and don't waste brain space on anything that's not exactly what you need to know. For getting yourself ready to survive an unfortunate situation, there's no tool better than a self defense DVD.
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