Always Assume You Will Face Someone Who’s
Armed With A Weapon…
And Who’s Bigger, Faster
Or Stronger

In today’s world, predators have no problem using violence to get what they desire. They seek out potential victims they believe they can dominate, those they see some inherent weakness in. They don’t seek out somebody they feel is going to give them a hard time.

That being the case, you’re almost always going to face somebody who is physically bigger, faster and stronger… or you’re going to be outnumbered. You’ll probably be facing somebody that has some sort of tool in his hand… a knife, a gun, a club. You might see multiple attackers… each with tools in their hand.

So, we always assume this is the case. You simply can’t assume that you’re going to ever face anybody smaller, slower or weaker. It never seems to happen that way and that’s the beauty of Target Focus Training. Remember the one standard… that all humans have inherent weaknesses in their bodies. If we assume that your brain is still active… that you haven’t been taken out of the situation, that some predator has approached you, maybe hurt you, but has not injured you yet, this gives you the opportunity to respond… and the opportunity to potentially injure them!

And what we do is we give you the tools to do just that. The problem with a lot of martial arts and combat sports is that they are dominated by people who are genetically pre-disposed to do well in a specific type of system. If you see a system that requires a lot of grappling or wrestling or things of that nature, you’re going to find guys who are pretty good at that. They feel really comfortable because they’re genetically built that way. They often look the same. If you go into a particular school, you often see a lot of the participants have similar body types. They might be a little bit taller, a little bit bigger in some areas, but they all basically look the same. Why? Because those are the type of people that are genetically predisposed to that art or sport.

If you find somebody who’s really good at kicking, you find they are very good with their legs. If you find guys that like to punch, you’ll find they’re very good and fast with their hands. But that’s just because they’re doing something that requires a special skill to excel in that particular competitive environment.

But that often has no relevance in the world of violence.

That why often times if you join a group where you’re forced to mimic a guru who’s really good at kicking and you cant kick as good as he does then you won’t be effective in that system… you’re not very good at it.

In Target Focus Training we care about one thing and one thing only…. results. Within that, do we care how you strike a target? Lets say you’re going after the trachea… do I care if you used your fist, your forearm, if you used a club, if you used a knife, if you used a briefcase, if you used an umbrella, if you used your car door?

No… I don’t care at all.

What I do care about is that you understand what to expect when you strike somebody in the trachea. Do you understand what to expect when you kick somebody in the saphenous nerve? Do you know the results of what you’re going to do to somebody when you punch them in the bladder? That’s what we care about.

We care about whether you understand the results of what happens when you strike these targets. If you’re not able to kick a person because you don’t have the ability to kick him, then fine, I don’t care. Punch him or hit him with a briefcase. We don’t care. Throw a brick at him, just as long as you get it done.

That’s why Target Focus Training has been successful in training people that have physical difficulties. We’ve recently trained a blind person on the effective use of violence. We’ve trained people in wheelchairs and people that have genetic disabilities. They may not be able to use a hand or they may not have a fully developed arm they’re able to fight with. Maybe they simply have a bad back or bad knees. They’ve all found that it does not mean that they can’t learn to use the tool of violence effectively.

And that’s the beauty of Target Focus Training. It doesn’t require you to be bigger, faster or stronger.