Self Defense Krav Maga Close Combat. The worst thing you can do in Self Defense is Nothing!

We put a lot of thought into what happens when a BIG thuggy brute gets in our face and sometimes, it's easy for us to forget that there are a lot of scallywags out there that aren't necessarily drunk and looking to bloody someone up for fun.
 Sometimes, it really is more important to do SOMETHING than it is to do exactly the RIGHT thing. Take this kid in Iowa who was nearly kidnapped a couple weeks ago. He wasn't a fighter, he was a teenager. He wasn't in karate or anything like that but his dad taught him the SINGLE most important lesson in all of self-defence.

 What is that? "The worst thing you can do is nothing."
 Some dude pulled up in front of this 15-year-old kid, wearing a baseball cap and tried to grab him and drag him into the van. Kid balled up his fist and hammered his would-be kidnapper in the nose and then SLAMMED him in the gut. And like every good self-defence story SHOULD end, the kid took the hell off right then and there.

 No looking for an opening, he landed the hits he needed to land to get away, and he got the hell away. Good job, kid. Succeeding like that under conditions as stressful as an attempted kidnapping is something that ANY of us should be proud of if it ever happened to us.