Self Defense - 16 Basic Body Weapons For Giving You the Greatest Advantage!

Are you serious about developing powerful, efficient, and effective self defense skills? Do you want to be capable of quick, decisive action? If so, then you must be able to do things that are outside of what your attacker is used to seeing.
And, this includes how you take the fight to him! The focus of this article is to present a list of body weapons that will significantly increase your ability to defend yourself.
And, at the same time, give you the ability to do more than throw the same punches and kicks that he will already be waiting for.
This is a very important reality of self protection to keep in mind - and that's the truth that, if he has any kind of fight experience whatsoever, then he will already be watching for the same strikes and kicks that most people will typically throw.
Do you understand that? Do you get the significance of that reality? It means that you have to be able to think outside the box.
And, thinking outside the box, as I teach it to my students, means more than just having a bunch of "tricky moves.
" To "think outside the box," requires that you first understand, "the box.
" And, the box that I'm talking about here, is how he thinks about striking and what he'll be watching for from you.
It means that he'll already be on the lookout for certain, common and predictable things that almost "everyone" does.
And, if you're going to have any chance at all of getting out of there with the least amount of wear-and-tear on yourself, then you must be able to think, move, and act in ways that are VERY DIFFERENT from the average person! And, while this article is about how to do that with your striking techniques, this strategy and training concept goes far beyond your striking skills to involve everything that you do.
That being said, here is a basic list of 16 body weapons that I give to my beginner students.
The list changes as the new student progresses in skill and understanding, but for now, it provides a good model to convey what I mean by increasing your options and thinking outside the box.
The 16 Basic Body Weapons include:

• Head
• Right Shoulder
• Left Shoulder
• Right Elbow
• Left Elbow
• Right Hand
• Left Hand
• Right Hand Fingers
• Left Hand Fingers
• Right Hip
• Left Hip
• Right Knee
• Left Knee
• Right Foot
• Left Foot
• Body-as-weapon (Torso)