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Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 10:26 p.m.

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RELEASE in self-defense falls squarely as one of the most important things that can be learned, especially as a weaker or smaller defender, to defend and preserve life. The ability to release in some arts such as Hapkido may contain upwards of 100 variations just for wrist RELEASE alone.

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RELEASES may come in many forms, and use many principles of self-defense such as circling, dropping, and either expanding or contracting movements. Example: a man grabs a woman around the waist in a park to abduct her and transport her to a secondary location. This is a very serious scenario due to the fact that only a small percentage of abducted individuals ever survive secondary locations.

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The woman drops her much smaller frame and weight, unifying speed accelerated through gravity with the earth, driving her hands upward to stress the large man\\u2019s arms as her body commits every last pound of weight downward. Simultaneously she screams and alerts near by picnickers that start yelling and moving to see what\\u2019s going on. As she breaks from almost certain death she takes her new \\u201clease\\u201d on life and runs toward freedom. The outnumbered assailant turns, jumps into his van and speeds off.

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In Life Defense we might draw many comparisons to this scenario. There is probably nothing to be gained from a violent relationship, or a relationship that is going somewhere you don\\u2019t want to go. The RELEASE then is an escape from death, injury and trauma.

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How soon should a defender act? As soon as possible! You see if our defender would have waited, hesitated or went along with small complaints never RELEASING, she would more than likely be dead. Period.

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RELEASE then is a clean break, there is no time to wonder. The time for wondering is gone. RELEASE in self-defense is a decision made long ago. If this happens\\u2026 I will do this. RELEASE occurs as a function of practice based on principles of defense and preservation of life practiced thousands of times.

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Why then in life are we caught off guard, responding slowly or not at all when principles of life are threatened? Bad projects turn to nightmares, violent relationships into ongoing abuse and circumstances normally unacceptable are accepted and continue on.

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In Life Defense as in self-defense the best, most effective, and most efficient time to RELEASE is immediately, in the moment, practiced through an understanding of principles of conflict.

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If a principle is being ignored\\u2026RELEASE yourself from that activity! If a wrong is being done\\u2026RELEASE from it immediately! If something just isn\\u2019t based on true principles it may be time to RELEASE it.

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I like to think of the world RE-LEASE\\u2026Meaning RELEASING early gives us a RE-LEASE on life!

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Allen Hughes Life Defense Evangelist

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