Giving Chase To Purse & Bag Snatchers

We all have our own personal reasons for starting to train in the martial arts, self-defense, combatives, or whatever we want to refer to our method of training as. Mine was largely — but not exclusively — because I was bullied as a kid, and wanted a way to level the playing field, with my much larger and more numerous adversaries. I can tell myself that this was a matter of survival, however ego was also at play, as, truth be told, I wanted to teach them a lesson, and be recognized as somebody who couldn’t be targeted as a victim; ego was certainly present because I wanted to be seen and perceived in a certain way, not just to avoid violence, but for my own self-image, and self-esteem. I’m not arguing that any of these reasons were “wrong”, but merely recognizing that it is easy to lose or fail to recognize egotistical motives in our reasons for doing things, and alter/change our narratives to be simplistic, and portray us in a better light e.g. <a href="https://medium.com/@gershonbenkeren_6686/giving-chase-to-purse-snatchers-24ec61ddb2ca">Read More</a>