One of our Phase B instructors, Pete Hardy of STW Krav Maga, was recently featured in a local San Antonio news story. The segment, “Carjacked! What should you do?”, discusses basic survival tips and also strategies for removing a child from the vehicle before the carjacker speeds off.

Key points:

• “Anybody can learn how to do this. It can be man or woman. It makes no difference whatsoever.”
• “But, it takes a lot of practice to get to a level that might allow for you to fight back. So Hardy never recommends fighting someone with a gun if you haven’t been properly trained.”

I was very happy to see the inclusion of the second point. It is consistent with Pete’s own phrase “All’s you have to do is”, and it’s rare to see this caveat made by a mainstream news source that more often than not conflates all self-defense as “karate”.

I’ve perhaps belabored these points in past posts, so I won’t elaborate. The takeaways are:

1. There is no Ultimate Defense Solution.
2. You must constantly train.