The dark corner seemed extra dark tonight as the moon was new and the sky very, very cloudy. It didn’t help to have the overhead street light burned out as well. “Great,” the middle aged executive muttered under his breath as he approached his hotel. Reaching out to swipe his room key into the after hours, rear hallway door, Mickey suddenly felt weird, like someone was watching, and so he hurried to slide it and get safely inside.
His intuition was spot on, someone had been watching from just around the corner and was approaching rapidly, and just as he pulled on the door handle he felt it…Too close, too fast…DANGER! Suddenly it was too late. The arm circled around the right side of his neck in attempt to choke him out. However, as suddenly as it did his hands instinctively came up to protect his throat, cupping his nose, thumbs tight to his now “turtling” head, DROPPING so quickly it threw the assailant over his shoulder and into the glass. Thump! The tell tale sound of a skull hitting the thick, tempered glass, as Mickey’s head circled under the offending arm, and his footwork moved him out of death’s grip and safely inside.
He could hear the man cursing as he dialed 911, and saw the now would-be attacker running off. Feeling all to lucky, and thankful for taking his weekly Hapkido training, Mickey silently said a prayer, “Thank you God from Sabumnim Kim,” and “They’re never going to believe this back at the dojang…”
Along with a few great moves, even this “past prime” middle-aged man had connected to something really, really powerful when he DROPPED ever so slightly by bending his knees and guess what…It worked! …
DROPPING obviously works in self-defense and in fact multiple sports use DROPPING as a power enhancing PRINCIPLE to multiply power by connecting to the largest, most powerful body on Earth. The Earth!
In life, and in Life Defense how often do we connect powerfully with anything or anyone? Could we be mostly too loud, too opinionated, or just don’t listen, or really get what the other person is actually saying?
Through connection everything is possible. We are just a simple DROP from connecting. Think about it…when we DROP our volume we hear, when we DROP our agenda we listen, when we DROP our tone we harmonize more often, and much faster. DROP, and connect not some day, rather today, immediately because we are much more powerful when we DROP! DROP.
Allen Hughes
Warrior Way Life Defense
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