Offense vs. Defense
It’s that time of year that I love oh so much. The time when teams from all around the country are showing what they’ve got; and individual players vie for their spot on the team they want to play for. You’ve got it! Time to pull out those chicken wings and watch some football!
Football is all about the defense; or is it the offense. Well, the bottom line is that the cut-throat sport is a good dose of each. Sometimes a team’s offense racks up the points due to the other team’s defense playing less than their best. Sometimes two teams have equally good offenses and defenses and you’ve got one heck of a game.
Thinking about football gets me thinking about self defense. When you learn self defense, you get caught up in the moves. It doesn’t matter if you are studying martial arts self defense or you want to learn self defense geared more towards hand to hand fighting; the task is overwhelming a lot of the time and you can focus on little more than raising your arms or leg or performing the actual task at hand. Thoughts of offense or defense are nonexistent when you first learn self defense.
Let me clear this up. Martial arts self defense, like any other form of self defense begs to question if offense is more important than defense. Here’s what I have read on the theory – and what I totally agree with. I once read that when you are reacting defensively, you are basically playing catch up with your opponent. They strike, and then you counter with either a strike or your response is to try and dodge their fist, head or foot.
When you are engaged in a fight or an attack, you may not even have time to think about whether or not you are acting offensively or defensively. However, if you do have a chance to think about it; this needs to be what you take into consideration: in reality fighting (which can be life or death fighting), you don’t want to wait for someone else to call the shots.
If ever engaged in a confrontation that gives you a bad gut feeling, let your offense kick into gear. Use what you learned in martial arts self defense (or combat self defense or jiu-jitsu or whatever) and take your opponent down first. Take them down quickly and effectively and then run for the end zone! In this case, the end zone is just someplace safe. You won’t score a touchdown or be greeted by screaming fans; but you’ll come away with your life and that’s what really matters.
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