Decision Making

One of the most challenging skills to learn in the martial arts, or anywhere, is how to make decisions under pressure. Being able to create an effective defense against an unscripted, unrehearsed attack is what anyone who trains in self-defense strives for. This course looks at how the idea of decision making, as it relates to self-defense, can actually be broken down into many smaller skills. Each one of these skills can be focused on, drilled, and improved. This course covers nine of these skills, from ways to focus on the inside to make faster decisions, ways to position your body to make easier decisions, to ways to recognize what the attacker is doing to make more effective decisions, and it gives examples of drills to isolate and grow each of these skills. Some of these drills you can even participate in by yourself, right as you watch this course. Once you’ve gone through the individual skills, this course also gives examples of how to make decisions under pressure by simulating stress and confusion, and then helps you put it all back together into that unscripted and unrehearsed Free Response so that any conflict, whether a physical fight or some other challenge, goes the way you intend.