The Three Second fighter   

The sniper option 

By Geoff Thompson 

Street defence is not match fighting - that noble art died with my father’s generation. Rather it is, mostly, a three second affair where the leading technique is dialogue and deception and, more often than not, one blow - usually a punch - decides the outcome. 

This is what I call the ‘sniper option’, or what the original ‘men’ of martial art would have called the one punch kill. 

That is the ethos of ‘The Three Second Fighter’, forming a game plan, perfecting one or two short range techniques as a main artillery, using awareness of our surroundings and of the enemy as our bedrock, deception as our primer, distraction as our trigger and sniper option to eclipse the enemy. 

Most people are not mentally or physically equipped to handle a violent confrontation. The immediate response for the majority being that of terror and capitulation. For this reason self protection should deal with the possibility of ‘flight’ over ‘fight’. Where flight is not an option, awareness of attack ritual should be used by the potential victim to prime and pre-emptively attack the attacker. 

If you have to become physical you should be pre-emptive and not defensive. Of course, once you have been attacked preemptiveness is no longer an option and most of the techniques that are the perfunctory by-products of most defence books are as unworkable as they are unrealistic. If you are not already incapacitated you will be fighting, tooth and nail, for your life.

 The Three second fighter tells how it really is when it comes down to defending yourself against a physical attack, being aware of what you will encounter in an attack and what to look for to avoid being attacked are very important to your safety. this is a must read book for any person who takes their safety serious.

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