SELF-DEFENSE; SUB-PRINCIPLE: The Self-defense Square

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A term coined by Marc MacYoung in his book, “In the Name of Self-Defense,” where I first started to truly and fully understand the ramifications in using self-defense as a defense in a violent encounter. I look at the square as just large enough to put both my feet into it standing as if at a position of attention, a stance military assume in standing formations, where stability is questionable unless I move my feet. Moving my feet means stepping outside the square. Stepping outside the square means I have done something that makes the self-defense - defense indefensible in a court of law and the legal system (It should be noted that there is a huge difference between the law and the legal system). 

As I continue to study the principle of self-defense in detail a practitioner begins to understand and appreciate the need to fully embrace the entire spectrum that makes up the world of self-defense. Like physiokinetics, it only takes a small violation of one of the sub-principles to unbalance a person and get hurt so as in self-defense any misstep or violation of a sub-principle means legal ramifications as well as economic. 

The goal of karate and martial arts for self-defense is to study, learn, understand and apply all the sub-principles to keep balanced while standing in that teensy, tiny and very restricted square.  

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