• No martial art skill can help you to “defend” against an attack you do not see coming. Action beats reaction even in a regular fight, so what do you expect in an ambush? Sucker punch lands and knocks out in 99,9% cases. It is not the strike that hurts – it is the fall of the unconscious body and slam of the head that kills.
• Daydreaming? Listening to new .mp3 set? Texting to a friend? The old masters say:„The eyes watch on the Four Sides, ears listen to the Eight Directions.“ Switch on your alarm – your awareness has to cover 360 degrees of your enviroment, including everyone and everything in it. 

• Send a clear message you are not an easy victim. Look around, act confident, be confident – you will not be chosen as a prey.
• Protect your personal space, do not allow anybody you do not know to enter it. Hands up when needed! (Not in a combat guard per se, just hands up).
• How often do you hear: „I did not see it coming…“? Well, you probably could have “see it coming”, or better say, avoid it at all. That is 95% of all self-defence and it has to be learned and trained on regular basis. But – you have to be see/hear/realize the possible threat. Stay aware and alert.
• Remind your classmates: We train martial arts to help people, not hurt them. Would you really feel a real man after suckerpunching a stranger, a woman, an elderly person for no reason?! SERIOUSLY?!

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