#81: The Law of the Jungle and Self-Defense [Video + Podcast]

Welcome to Episode #81 of the Fight for a Happy Life podcast, “The Law of the Jungle and Self-Defense.”

Can a smaller, weaker animal survive an attack by a larger, stronger animal?

The truth is UGLY, but I’m going to tell you anyway!

If you can handle it, I’m going to examine the benefits of training in the martial arts as well expose the limitations. Let’s face it—you hear a lot of nonsense out there. Is training really worth all that time, sweat, and money?

Spoiler alert: I’m still training!

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The Law of the Jungle and Self-Defense

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Ando here from Happy Life Martial Arts. Welcome to episode #81 of Fight for a Happy Life, the show that believes even a little martial arts makes life a whole lot better.

Today, things are going to get ugly. Are you feeling brave? Today, I want to take a walk in the jungle.

Here’s the thing. I got an email the other day from a martial artist named Becky. Hey, Becky, shout out to you. Thanks for writing.

Now, Becky has a concern that even if she trains really, really hard in the martial arts, even if she puts all of her time and energy and passion into it, it’s still possible that some brutish thug can overwhelm her even if he’s got no training whatsoever that she’s just going to be outmatched and beat up.

Now, this is not the first time this question has come up. If you’ve been listening to this show, I’ve raised this topic a couple of times, and I’ll put the links below to those episodes just in case this rambling is not enough for you. I have other thoughts on this topic.

But today, I wanted to take a new approach. I have another thought that I haven’t really brought up before, but like I said, this could get ugly. We’re going to talk about the Law of the Jungle. And the Jungle, my friends, is a scary, horrible place. You may not like what you find in the Jungle.

But I do believe if you’re brave enough to step into the darkness, we will find some bright spots along the way. So gird your loins, get your coffee, do what you have to do. Are you with me? Then let’s get steppin.

Here’s the situation…

You are alone and you are attacked by someone a head taller, 50 pounds heavier. Maybe in their 20s. It’s a guy. He’s got some kind of athletic base, not necessarily trained in martial arts, but maybe he’s played some rugby or some football, so he’s tough. And for whatever reason, he’s got his eyes on you. Jumps on you, and is committed to hurting or maybe even killing you. That’s the scenario.

Now, to be honest is very difficult, but be honest with yourself. What are your chances of surviving that attack right now? I don’t care what your rank is, what you’ve studied, how old you are, just right now, what’s your first reaction to that question?

Jumped on by a bigger, stronger, crazier animal in the jungle. Are you going to survive that situation or not?

Now, let me be clear. I’d like to set up this context as self-defense only. I’m not talking about making someone tap or necessarily killing them. I’m saying that when you’re attacked by this larger, stronger, faster, crazier animal, that you will be able to survive that, stop them from getting what they want from that situation and escaping.

So what are your chances? Now, it’s very easy in the martial arts to have one or two thoughts. One, you might think–

Man, I get beat up in class all the time. I’ve been here for years, but in sparring I still get beat up. If I’m grappling, I still get tapped out. And look, I’m going to be honest about it. When someone’s bigger and stronger than me, I have a really hard time. I’m not making progress. And therefore, the law of the jungle means the bigger, stronger animal wins every time against the smaller, weaker, slower, older, kinder animal.

That’s one approach. The other answer could be a feeling of–

Are you kidding me? Do you know who my teacher is? Do you know how tough my school is? Do you know how long I’ve been doing this? I am invincible. I can’t be beaten. I don’t care who it is. If they don’t even have any training, they don’t have a chance against me.

Alright, so those are the two extremes, perhaps of attitude. And of course, there’s a lot of propaganda here in the middle. You might have one group that really oversells how competent you can be at self-defense. They’re saying–

Oh, study this. This is the most deadly system ever devised. These are the most deadly techniques taught to elite army groups and, you know, militia type groups. This is what you want. Never fear again. Never walk in fear again.

That kind of pitch. On the other side, you might have someone who just says–

Look, martial arts is great for your health. It’s great for a sense of community. Get you out of the house. It’s fun. It’s goal setting. But look, at the end of the day, someone bigger, stronger, crazier will always beat the smaller animal. There’s no way around that. That’s just the way it is. That’s life.

Okay, so we have a pretty wide spectrum here of attitudes about martial arts, either what you believe on your own or what someone is trying to sell you their belief system.

Where is the truth?

Well, I happen to have the truth. Well, my version of the truth today, at least. Check back with me in the year. But today, I really want to make sure that you see that there is a spectrum.

On the one hand, you always have a puncher’s chance. If you put any two fighters together, there’s always a chance that the one who is the underdog, just in their panic, in their sheer desperation of just throwing fists or feet around, can make a hit on a vital spot of some kind, the temple or the neck or the groin, and hurt the bigger, stronger, trained animal.

That’s a puncher’s chance. Just no training whatsoever, go wild, throw something up there, and it might just work. So let’s say that’s one out of a hundred times.

On the other extreme of the spectrum, you have this concept that the bigger, stronger animal always wins. There is no chance for you. No chance. Bigger, stronger animal always wins.

I think we have to be honest about where we fall in somewhere, somewhere on that spectrum. I don’t believe you never have a chance and I don’t believe that you always can win. That’s the honest truth about the Law of the Jungle.

You always have a chance to survive, always. But that same rule applies against you. So that’s the double-edged sword.

On the one hand, you can always defend yourself. Never let anyone tell you that you have no chance. So it is always worth fighting, always. On the other hand, no matter who you are or what you train or how long you train, you never have 100% guarantee that you are going to survive.

Anyone can be killed. Anyone. So don’t buy the hype either way. You always have a chance. You never have a chance of always winning.

Okay, so for the sake of this discussion, let’s set up a scenario where you can fight someone in a self-defense context who’s 50 pounds heavier than you, a head taller than you, athletic, crazy, and committed. And like a video game, you’re going to get a reset.

Let’s say you fight that animal 100 times, okay? Do the first fight, first scenario, and then we’re going to clear that one off. Let’s start off fresh again. You do it a second time. So this is how I want you to think about it.

How many times out of 100 could you defend yourself against that bigger, stronger animal in the jungle? Let’s start from the bottom. I don’t believe in a zero chance. I believe you always have at least one chance out of 100 to defend yourself. That’s no training, no preparation, just blind desperation.

Even if all you can do is bite and you’re in a wheelchair, and you have one arm, if they come close enough to touch you, you can touch them. Maybe you could bite their nose. There’s always one chance you could deter a bigger, stronger animal from hurting you.

Now let’s say, okay, you’ve thought about self-defense a little bit. And you thought about, well, if I can only bite, where would I bite? Or if I can use my hands, where would I put my hands? Oh, I guess the eyes, the throat, the groin. Okay.

Now let’s just say you have that basic understanding of targeting, you’ve thought about it. And at least that much, you’ve prepared yourself for the idea of fighting off a bad guy, a bigger bad guy. I would say right off the bat, your odds have improved. Your chances improved from one out of a hundred. Let’s double it.

Let’s say now two times out of a hundred, because instead of just wildly flailing, you’re at least looking for eyes, groin, or throat. Let’s just limit it to those. So that’s kind of exciting. A little bit of knowledge and a little bit of mental preparation might double your chances. That’s the positive. On the other side, that’s only two out of a hundred times, maybe, that you get it to work.

Okay, so let’s step up another level. Let’s say now you also buy a heavy bag. Let’s say you maybe shadow box a little bit once in a while.

So very limited training. But you start figuring out how to use your body as a weapon. You start looking at your knuckles a little differently. You start squeezing your hands and bring a little of awareness into how strong they can be if you’re gripping something.

Maybe you do a couple of knee strikes into your hands once in a while. Maybe you just twist your elbows a little bit before you take a shower. So let’s just say you start bringing in some awareness of your body as a weapon. And you combine that with a little bit of thinking about where you would hit a bad guy.

Now I would say, once again, your odds on that spectrum have improved. And let’s just, to make math easy, let’s double it. So let’s say with no training whatsoever, you had one out of a hundred chances. And then you doubled it. And now I’ll give you three or four times out of a hundred.

If you have some knowledge of how to use your body a little bit, some knowledge of targeting, in the jungle, bigger, stronger animal attacks you, let’s say three or four, I’ll give you four times out of a hundred, you could deter them from hurting you, make them leave you alone.

So this is exciting, right? You’ve doubled your chances and then doubled them again. And I don’t think it took a lot of training to do that. You see where I’m going here, right? We’re just slowly working our way across the spectrum from one out of a hundred chances to two or three or four.

Ultimately, that’s what this whole game is. Martial arts training, I mean. It’s about increasing your odds, increasing your percentage of successes of survival. So now the bigger questions start coming in to play.

How much are you training? How much are you willing to train? What are you training? How are you training? How much money are you willing to invest? Which teachers are you willing to travel and meet with? What kind of injuries are you willing to sustain?

We’ve got a million variables now to play with. But let’s make things simple for now. Let’s continue down the spectrum. Let’s say you decide, you know what, I want to take Krav Maga for a weekend seminar. Or let’s say, Hey, my buddy does BJJ. Maybe once a month, I can convince him or her to roll around the living room and just practice a couple of scenarios with an actual person.

Great. Now, that kind of thing, I think, again, is going to start moving that needle. Maybe now instead of three or four times out of a hundred, maybe get to five or six, maybe not doubling yet. A weekend seminar, a little bit of rolling around with someone. I’m not going to double your percentage yet, but you moved up a little bit. Great.

Now let’s make the commitment. You enjoy rolling around, you enjoy that little bit of experimentation. It was a good seminar. So you commit six months. Let’s say you say, I’m going to take BJJ for six months. I’m going to go and roll in Krav Maga for six months.

Now I’m going to scooch up a little bit officially to six or seven out of a hundred. Let’s say you continue that into a year, two years, three years, four years, five years. Okay, now maybe we’re getting somewhere– not too far– but let’s say after five years of training in a martial art, a martial art that, just to make things simple, let’s say it’s a good program with a good teacher, and it’s giving you some good feedback on your skills. Here’s the bad news…

I’m very proud of you for committing to all of that training, by the way. But my feeling is that, well, maybe still ten times out of a hundred, that you’ll be able to defend yourself successfully against someone bigger, stronger, crazier, crazier and committed. That doesn’t make me happy to tell you that. I’m just kind of going from my experience, which may be different from yours or anyone else’s.

But I would say if you’re five years into a pretty solid program, you’re still at quite a disadvantage if that person who played some football, who’s 50 pounds heavier– that’s a big, strong animal coming at you. And if you disagree with that, and that’s okay, we were just talking about this.

If your first reaction, though, is, Oh, that’s crazy. Come on! Five years of training against someone bigger and stronger? Come on, I could definitely do better than 10 times out of 100.

Well, maybe you can. But it’s also possible that maybe you’re not training with the kinds of animals I’m talking about. It’s very easy to get lulled in the martial arts into a sense of confidence when you train with people kind of your size, or they’re not that athletic, or they’re not that committed to their training. And you say, Well, I got a big guy at my dojo.

Okay, but is he a world class athlete? Is he completely committed to killing you when you train? Those things make a difference. When someone gets their hands on you and they’re at a higher level of athleticism and strength, their muscle fibers just are not built like yours. And I’m not just talking about trying to compare females to males. I’m a male. And the first time you touch someone who’s like an elite athlete or you feel their muscles firing, their speed is so much greater than mine. Their strength is so much greater than mine. The way that they can explode, it’s like they’re teleporting.

For a while when I was younger, I thought I was pretty fast. My punches, my kicks, my footwork. And then you get squared up with somebody who, and again, without even much training, they’re just built differently. And I’m going to go into this topic in a different podcast, about just elite athletes and what we can do to try to even up the scales.

But isn’t that what martial arts is? It’s the person at the disadvantage trying to even the scales against someone who outclasses them. Better at balance, and coordination, and toughness, pain tolerance, drive, tunnel vision, killing instinct. Holy smokes, that could be really frightening.

So again, if you think five years of training to, if I’m low balling you at 10 times out of 100 as a success rate, I just want to put it back on you to suggest that are you really training with people who scare you? Because when you do, I think that’s what’s given me a more humble estimation of my skill level at the five year mark. It’s just frightening when you touch that kind of person.

Okay, let’s move on. Let’s say you stay in that program 10 years. 10 years into martial arts training. And I’m talking three to five classes a week, at least an hour to two hours per pop, doing a little home training as well, supplementing, of course. Where does that put you?

What do you think I’m going to say? And I’m curious what you would say, so please let me know in the comments. 10 years of training, and now you get attacked by this bigger, stronger, faster, more athletic animal. What are your chances now, do you think?

I’m going to give you 20 to 30. That’s what I’m going to for myself. 10 years of training, maybe 20. High end 30. Basically double, okay? That 5 years of training to 10 years of training, I’ll double it to like 20 to 30.

Now does that seem like I’m lowballing again? It might. And I expect some pushback on this, so feel free, it’s okay. I’m just being honest. The bottom line here is that there are limits to what you can do.

And let’s just push it out all the way now to the end of the spectrum. I’ve been training for over 30 years in the martial arts. I think a lot of my training has had really good feedback. I don’t think all of it has, but I think much of it has. I have been blessed to find some training partners who outclass me in every way, physically, and in mental toughness, I would also say.

I think some people just have that fighting gene, and they can take pain, and they’re not afraid of making contact. I think I had issues with all of those things, so I’ve never presented myself as a tough guy. I’m not, and I’m not particularly athletic. I’m not, couldn’t make track team, you know, all kinds of things I couldn’t make. Martial arts was a place for someone like me. Can’t get off the bench. Well, martial arts will accept you. Here I am.

So having said that, with over 30 years of training, I think on my best day, my, my perkiest, my peppiest, my most flexible, most motivated and impassioned state, I’m gonna give myself 70. 60 to 70 range. If you’re a little more athletic than I am or a little tougher than I am, I’ll get you up to 80, let’s say.

Out of 100 times you’re attacked, bigger, stronger, crazier, savage animal, I still don’t think you’ll ever get to 100%. I hope we agree on that. But I’m still gonna pull you down into the realm of 80 out of 100 times that you are able to defend yourself successfully, survive.

How do you feel about that? I told you this was gonna get ugly today. That would be probably the most ugly part of this. Even if you find a great teacher, find a great style, you find great training partners, my feeling is that even with decades of study, you’re still gonna hit a limit.

And by the way, if you’ve been training for 30 years or more, there’s another factor to consider, age. So even if you’re knocking it out of the park, and you’re a freak, and you’re an 80 to 90 percent, okay, you’re not me, you’re better than me, you’ve trained more, and genetically you’re just ahead of me, great. I’m still not gonna give you 100 percent. No way, uh-uh.

But let’s say you get to 90 out of 100 times, you can defend yourself successfully against someone bigger and stronger. Okay? But now you’re getting older. And all of that hard training, which you did, is really starting to catch up with you.

Your shoulder does not work the way it used to. Your knees, you cannot zig and zag the way you used to. Your cardio, your muscle tone, things are dropping, your body is now starting to get ready for the great sleep, the big sleep, the great dirt nap is coming.

Mother Nature is the only one who can kick your butt 100% of the time, right? So now when you factor in age and limited capabilities, all of that hard work and all of that training, you’re going to start sliding down on the other side, right? The other side of the hill. You’re going to go downhill now.

So maybe at your peak of skills, you’re at 80, 90 times out of 100, but now you’re 60 years old. Now where are you? Please be honest with yourself or project yourself into the future. However great you think you are now, put it out there.

When you’re 60, 70 years old, how much of that have you held onto? How much of the type of training that you have done, can you still do? Or are you sitting on the side? Are you retired? Are you talking a lot about what you used to be able to do? And now you can’t do as much. Now your percentages start coming down again.

And now let’s say you’re infirm. Let’s say you are in a wheelchair or on a cane or a walker. You’ve had some operations. You’ve had a heart attack. You’ve got parts of your body that aren’t original.

Okay, so here we are. Maybe now you’re back down to 40 times out of 100 at 60 years old. Maybe now you’re 65 years old and you’re at 20 times out of 100 with your skills. And now we’re backsliding.

Again, the good news is you still always have that puncher’s chance. You still always have a chance to survive. But the ugly truth, the law of the jungle is that bigger, crazier, stronger, younger animal always has an advantage.

They always have their puncher’s chance plus the advantages of weight and size and speed and explosiveness and commitment and taking it up to a killing level before you are, if you’re a kinder animal. We cannot push those things aside.

That is the honest truth about all martial arts training. That’s the way it is. It’ll never get you to 100 percent. And at some point, it’s going to come boomeranging back down towards one out of a hundred. That’s the way it is.

So am I saying give up on martial arts training? Certainly not. I’m training more now than ever. And I’ll be turning 50 very shortly. So this is the choice now that you have to make and everybody has to make.

Is your training worth it?

Either the training that you’re doing now or the training that you’re signing up for in the future. You have two choices, two answers to that question, okay?

On the one side, no, it’s not worth it. It’s simply not worth it. If you tell me that just by talking about martial arts a little bit and thinking about it, I double my chances from one to two and with a couple of weekend seminars here and there and a little bit of extra thinking about exercise with a heavy bag, I can go from two to four. You know what, that’s all the time and money and effort I’m willing to invest and I’m happy with that.

I’m a little bit better off than the guy next to me, but I’m not going to put myself up for all that time and money and driving and training and injuries. It’s not worth it to me. I’m just going to stay right there. Not worth it.

And if you tell me five years of some martial art only gets me up to eight, something like that, or you tell me ten years of training gets me to ten or at best twenty out of a hundred, it’s just not worth it. No problem. That doesn’t offend me at all.

Make your choice because don’t forget, the time that you invest in martial arts training is time away from your family. It’s time away from traveling. It’s time away from everything else that you might enjoy in life. Gardening, cooking, painting, hula hooping, I don’t know. But there is a trade-off. So it may not be worth it to you.

Maybe it was worth it to you when you were younger. Maybe now that you’re older, not so much. Because you already know that there’s a limit to what you got out of it and it’s only sliding off now. You might say that’s enough. I get it. No hard feelings on that.

On the other side, you might answer, it is worth it. Because martial arts is more than just self-defense. Martial arts might be your gym membership. That might be how you stay in shape, keep your heart in good shape, your cardiovascular system, your circulation, your muscle tone, your focus, your clarity, your mood.

There are so many benefits from just exercise in general. The camaraderie of getting to a social club where you can spar and roll with other people and meet other people. That might be your gymnasium. That might be your social club. That might be your therapy session.

There are so many benefits to just getting up and training in a martial arts program of any kind that you may say it’s absolutely worth it. Okay, maybe on the self-defense side, it only takes me so far, but on the improvement of my life side of it, it’s so vast.

Of course, I’m going to keep training and I’ll train till the day I die. Can you guess which side of this question I’m on? I’m training for life because I’m training for a happy life. I’m not just training to defend myself against wild animals. That’s part of it.

It always has been, but I get so many other benefits out of martial arts training. I’m never going to stop. So that’s my choice. What about you?

How are you training right now? Are you getting what you want out of it? I ask you that question all the time. Do you see yourself continuing to train? If so, are you under this impression that your self-defense skills will always keep improving and will never backslide?

Because I would say, here is my honest opinion, if you tell me that self-defense is the only reason that you’re training in martial arts, if that’s it, if you already have social needs met and physical fitness needs met someplace, and you have your therapy and your spirituality training someplace else, and you really are just coming to a martial arts class because you worry about being attacked, then I would say buy a gun, carry a knife, get a tool. That’s what they’re for.

Train with those tools responsibly. Don’t think that that’s just an automatic given that you can use those well either. But the amount of time it’s going to take you to train to use a tool of some kind, pepper spray, knife, gun, bat, stick, is so much less than trying to use your hands and go through all of the empty hand combat training of a normal martial arts program. It’s so much simpler that way.

And you’ll have so much of your life back. You won’t spend tens of thousands of dollars on schooling. You will not spend hours and hours in your car driving to and from class. You’ll save on laundry detergent. My god, I do a lot of wash.

You’re going to save on injuries and surgeries, most likely. It’s just inevitable part of the path. And you’ll have more time to spend with your family and all those other things you love to do in life.

So I represent Happy Life Martial Arts. And as a person who believes in building a happy life, if you’re only worried about self-defense, I think looking into a weapon is a great idea. That’s not me. I’m on the other side. Martial Arts is part of how I’ve built a happy life on all fronts in all categories. So I’m going to keep going. That’s what I’m doing.

I also believe in weapons though. So on that side of it, if you’re going to walk through this jungle, as we all are, I think I’m going to train for all of the benefits that martial arts provides. And on the self-defense front specifically, I do believe in weapons. I don’t teach them on YouTube, because I think that might be irresponsible at this point of what I’m trying to do. But I absolutely believe in them. Yes.

So this is a big question. How are you training? How much of your life are you willing to devote to your training? And are you being clear headed about what you’re going to get out of your training? Because I say again, there are plenty of people out there who might lead you to believe that you’re just going to keep getting better.

With self-defense, if you just learn that one more form, if you just go to that one more seminar, if you just go meet that one more teacher, if you just practice one more hour, that it never ends, that there’s this never ending improvement, never ending success rate, I should divide those two statements. I should divide that one statement into two.

Yes, you can keep improving. My stances, my kicking, my breathing, my attitude, my mentality, my strategy, my tactics, I am making improvements all of the time. Absolutely true. However, that does not mean that my success rate in a wild attack is going up all the time. Does that make sense?

I am becoming more efficient in how I use my body. I am becoming more comfortable in doing what I have to do to be successful. But on the other hand, I’m getting older. And the tough guys are not getting less tough. So my success rate is going down while my improvement is coming up.

Those are both possible because now all I’m talking about is slowing my backslide. However, I have peaked through technique and strategy over the years. And then I start coming down.

Definitely in my late 30s, the types of training that I was doing then, I was starting to have a backslide there. I was getting slower. There was talk about a hip implant. There was my shoulders eventually. My 40s started acting up. Energy, recovery times, backsliding.

So I found different ways to train, different teachers, different ideas, different styles. To start trying to say, Whoa. Well, if I can’t do that kind of kicking, what if I kick this way? Whoa. If that strategy doesn’t work, what if I try this strategy?

So there’s an inevitable backslide, believe it. But through smart training, you can slow it down and try to maintain the highest percentage possible. That’s what this is all about.

When you’re young and you’re a beginner, it’s very exciting because you’re still recovering and you’re learning. And very quickly, your success rate is doubling, doubling in not much time and not much effort. You’re doubling all the time, right?

That first year of training is thrilling because you’re so far ahead of where you were. If you’re six months into whatever kind of training you do, compare yourself to six months ago, that’s incredibly inspiring and exciting.

Take it out two years. You’ve been training two years and you look back to where you were and where you are now, incredibly exciting. But if you were training for 10 years and you look back to eight years, not as exciting. If you’ve been training for 30 years and you look back to where you were at 25 years, not so thrilling.

Don’t get me wrong, I am still thrilled with my little improvements. But looking over on the graph of success rate, not so thrilling. I wouldn’t keep training if I wasn’t getting results. Don’t get me wrong. But I’m very clear headed, very honest with myself about where I stand in the jungle and where the threats are and what I can do about those threats. Threats all around. Did you hear that siren?

So all I’m trying to share today is that you should be just as clear headed as I am. If that means going to test yourself a little bit more and seek out harder training sessions, then do that at least a couple of times. Don’t wait to be surprised by the fact that all of the training you’ve been doing wasn’t exactly gauged for the type of wild animal that I’m talking about.

If you’re only training with rabbits, you won’t believe what you start doing when a tiger jumps out. It ain’t the same. So make sure your training is providing you with honest feedback. If it is, I think if you come back and listen to this episode five years out, ten years out, you’re going to say, Oh yeah, maybe he was right about that.

I hope this all makes sense. I hope it’s not too dire. The martial arts, I still believe, is the greatest path to a happy life ever devised by humankind. I don’t think there is any activity that will pay you back more than the time, money, and energy you spend in the martial arts. Believe that.

But if we’re just talking about self-defense, there is definitely a limit to what you can achieve. As long as you’re clear headed about that and you prepare for that, then I don’t want you to be afraid of the jungle. Please don’t forget, and this is important–

You were born in this jungle. You live in this jungle. You will die in this jungle. You are a force of influence in this jungle just like every other animal. If you’re afraid of being in the dark with another animal, that animal should also be afraid of being in the dark with you.

Never forget your puncher’s chance. Never forget that no animal in the jungle is guaranteed a 100% success rate. You can be successful. You, with a little work and a little effort, can be incredibly successful. Just don’t get crazy and think you can’t be killed or you can’t be hurt, because it is still a jungle, and jungle law rules.

Wow, are you still here? You made it through that terrifying walk through the jungle? Well, good for you. That just means you’re my kind of person. And hey, if you’re my kind of person, you might be interested in a little more detail about how I’ve made my way through the jungle. That’s why I have finally started to shoot some online courses. They’re gonna be available as fast as I can shoot them on my website.

Of course, you’re always welcome to send me an email if you have a question or a problem. And if you ever want to jump on a video lesson or train in person, we could probably set that up, too.

But for now, smiles up, my friend. Let that smile be your shield and your sword. Keep fighting for a happy life.