Just pick up a newspaper or turn on the news on tv and you’ll understand why learning some self defense is important. Self-defense is defined as being able to have the ability or skill to protect oneself and prevent others from bringing harm.

Practically everybody needs to learn self-defense. The reason for this is obvious. Being alone at times is inevitable. There are activities that require an individual to be by himself/herself alone.

In the martial arts, the deadliest tool I know is also the one least used. The actual and effective use of space is what I am talking about here. If properly understood and utilized, space can win any fight.

Space is the absence of objects, is emptiness, is nothing. You will find, if you just ask any light beam, that space is the greatest conductor of visual perception. A very zen thing, space is not understood by most martial artists.