Priniciples

In the space of about three seconds, your mind is trying to process your environment, assess a potential threat, recall everything you know about self-defense, and decide on a course of action — all while your heart rate climbs, your palms go slightly damp, and a voice in the back of your head starts whispering this doesn’t feel right.

What happens next isn’t determined by how many techniques you know. It isn’t determined by how many years you’ve trained or how many belts hang in your closet.

It’s determined by one thing: how much cognitive bandwidth you have available in that moment — and how fast you can use it.