1. KEEP YOUR DEFENSIVE TECHNIQUES SIMPLE
Discard in theory and practice overly elaborate striking, blocking, disengaging, grappling, or throwing techniques. Self-Defense techniques, to be effective, must be very fast and very easy.

2. CONTINUOUS MOTION.
Once you have been engaged in combat, keep all self-defense techniques, be they defensive or offensive, flowing continually from one onto the next. Never stop until you have defeated your attacker.

3. STRIKE FIRST.
If attack is imminent and there is nothing you can to to get away from the confrontation, strike fast and strike hard. From this, the confrontation will end before you have the potential of becoming injured.

4. COUNTERSTRIKE.
Immediately upon disengaging any hold, or instantly upon moving out of the path of an adversary's attack, strike before the attacker has the opportunity to realign his energies and launch a secondary attack.

5. USE YOUR ATTACKER'S OWN ENERGY AGAINST HIMSELF.
When an attacker launches an ass ult, step out of it's path and use his own aggressive momentum to aid you in your self-defense.

6. RANGE EFFECTIVENESS.
All self-defense techniques, be they offensive or defensive must be easily applied. If you have to reach to strike an attacker, he is too far away. Thus, you leave yourself open for counterattacks. Let an attacker move to you.

Your chances of getting robbed, raped, burglarized, assaulted,mugged, or murdered are getting better all the time.
And whether or not that assault is successful could depend greatly on how well prepared you are to defend yourself.
If you are versed in any method of self-defense, you have a better-than-average chance of safety thwarting a mugging attempt,
but if you are unfamiliar with self-defense techniques, you're in trouble.Your personal welfare is no longer in your hands.
Fear is the first thing you must control in self-defense. Everyone is at least a little bit scared when threatened, especially by a weapon. There is tightness in the stomach, the dryness in the mouth, nausea, sweaty palms and underarms as the adrenalin surges through the body, pushed with hysterical urgency. It's virtually impossible to act in any positive manner when gripped by any or all of those symptoms. By allowing fear to rule the situation you add that much more to your opponent's arsenal. But by resisting the urge to panic, by relaxing rather than petrifying your muscles, you not only take away a weapon from him, you stand a fair chance of putting him on the defensive, at least psychologically. Speed is also essential in self-defense when coupled with composure, your opponent will not only sense your confidence, he will see that you obviously know what you're about. By rejecting fear you retain control, and by being in control of your emotions you give yourself the opportunity to play the situation by ear. Surprise is without a doubt a most formidable weapon and practically the only positive element an unarmed victim has to set up his adversary for subsequent self- defensive maneuvers. Without the element of surprise, there's just no way an unarmed person can escape injury or possible death at the hands of an armed aggressor.

Occasionally a display of aggression on the part of the victim will deter a mugger, but most agree that if you challenge a determined would-be assailant,you automatically shift the odds on his favor, for you are putting him on his guard; you are letting him prepare himself. And, more importantly,you are taking away the element of surprise and without that, his real weapon, that knife or gun looms even larger and more threatening than before. You don't want to scare him to a point of panic or decisive action. If he elects to harm you, then you can put into action whatever self-defense techniques you've mastered. Don't offer resistance if the mugger is armed. Some form of self-defense will give you the mental as well as the physical ability to not only react appropriately under given circumstances but to recognize and avoid obvious danger signals. Combat is emotional as well as physical, and good coordination between spirit, mind, and body is absolutely essential to good execution of techniques. This comes only with disciplined and prolonged study of self-defense. Each individual should select those methods of self-defense that are easiest, that is, the most natural for you to perform. The idea is not to conquer difficult methods simply to show that you can do it, but to do one thing so well that it becomes second nature after a while, a reflex action requiring no thought and wasting no time.

A unique form of self-defense is called Combat Karate.As the name suggests, the situation is combative - not sporting, and not necessarily artistically pleasing to the eye, but effective techiiques that work. It's a no-nonsense, straightfoward system that might well have as its motto " the shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line," for that's exactly what it advocates. It gets from one point to another as quickly as possible and without any fanfare whatever. It's not a "different" or "modified" version of any one system, it's simply Karate with none of the frills, none of the eye-pleasing but time-consuming whirl-around, high-jumping, twisting and spinning, back-kicking techniques. The two most commonly used weapons in a mugging attempt are: a knife, especially when only one person is being mugged, and a gun, usually when two or more victims are to be covered. If you are facing a gun, give him anything he wants. You're better off not thking any chances. However, if escape is impossible and the very real threat of injury immenint, action must be taken. "Try to put your man off- balance, not by verbally challenging him, but by coming on like a coward. By making him thinkyou're afraid, you may get him to relax his initial intentions. He may break his concentration thinking what a coward you are, and leave himself wide open for a surprise attack.He is scared too. He doesn't want to get caught.