The VITAL System Highlights
Quick and fun to
learn.
Instead of taking several years of intensive practice like
most martial arts styles, the General Adult VITAL program
is only 16 hours. Moreover, out of that, only 4 to 8 hours
is really fundamental to start to be effective against
violence. In addition, it was designed for people with
short attention spans, and is taught in an entertaining and
exciting way.
Simple and easy
to use / apply.
Things that are overly complicated will be forgotten (if
not used on a regular basis). So anything we teach that is
too complex or hard to use, as good as it may be, will
ultimately be useless. People only employ things in their
daily lives that provide obvious benefit to them, and are
easy to do. This is by far the most important factor needed
to make a self-defense system truly effective. If people
don’t / can’t use it, no matter how genius the design is,
it’s not effective.
Specifically
designed for ordinary people with NO athletic skills.
Most ordinary people don’t have the time / choose not to go
to the gym and bulk up with muscle. They are not skilled
athletes. Their body shape / type is not conducive with
strenuous physical activity. Does that mean they can’t
learn effective self-defense? I sure hope it doesn’t,
because those are the very same people that are targeted by
criminals in their victim selection process. (Note: most
crime is impulsive, not pre-meditated)
The good news is that you don’t need to be a young, fit,
muscular, athletically skilled, male with a Black Belt to
be able to Prevail Over Violence. The VITAL System was
designed from the ground up to work for you and your
characteristics.
Extremely
effective, even against the most overwhelming and brutal
violence.
You must be able to bet your life on this stuff, period.
Your life is on the line, and if what we taught you to do
is faulty or ineffective, that means blood on our hands
indirectly. Believe us when we tell you that this was
constantly at the forefront of every design decision we
made when creating the VITAL System. It absolutely must
work in the most dire and dangerous situations, when things
are at their worst, and stuff is going wrong real quick.
Blunders, errors, mishaps, sloppy execution, and the
unexpected are the essence of a violent encounter. VITAL’s
industrial strength effectiveness represents the pinnacle
of the best advice and techniques currently known. While
wrapped up in violence, everything is horrible, and there
are no great options. However, what is taught in the VITAL
System helps maximizes your chances, and gives you the
relatively best options given the situation.
Comprehensive
coverage of all major forms of violence; not just bar
brawls.
We were once asked: You say that the VITAL System is more
effective against violence than champion cage fighters with
many Black Belts; are you saying you could kick their
butts?
If someone who was trained in the VITAL System was standing
inside an extreme sports fighting ring facing a champion,
and both were governed by rules (even sparse rules), then
of course the champion would wipe the floor with the VITAL
person.
However, look at your assumptions in that scenario:
Controlled fighting environment (the ring / cage), both are
agreeing to follow the rules, both don’t really want to
kill each other, there are no weapons, there are no buddies
to jump in, the area is clean and clear, there is a referee
to regulate the match up, and it’s a sports competition
just to name a few.
Could we kick this champion’s butt? Not in the above
situation, but think about this. Could we stalk their
spouses? Could we abduct his kids? Could we run him over
with a car in a parking lot? Could we send him a mail bomb?
Could we do acts of violence to this champion other than
sports fighting him in his own sterile laboratory (ring /
cage)? The answer is easy to see.
The champion is clearly a better sports fighter, and
probably a better street brawler, but is not very effective
when it comes to 90% of the other forms / kinds of violence
that could negatively affect his, or his family’s life.
Besides, even though criminals are dumb, what predator is
going to victim select a huge beefy cage-fighting guy over
a frail elderly woman in a parking lot? It’s the elderly
woman who needs to know self-defense the most because she
is more likely going to be targeted.
Taught in a
non-intimidating, non-scary, and empowering way!
If people don’t come to your training, or alternately they
come and have a negative overall experience, than they will
not be effectively equipped to deal with violence in their
lives. Making your training big and scary, excessively
aggressive and macho, and featuring your skills to
student’s in a way that makes them think they may never get
that good are all ways to poison self-defense training.
The most important goal in a self-defense training session
is to have the students walk away feeling empowered and
positive. They need to believe in themselves; that they can
and will survive an attack. They need to experience
prevailing over violence in the self-defense session. You
need to make them their own biggest believer. If they walk
away doubting their abilities, or having experienced
unresolved failure, their psychology won’t support their
strive to survive in the moment.
Now, in the same breath, you want to make sure you aren’t
just patronizing the student by giving them success that is
unearned or sugarcoating the realities. If you water down
your training to where the feeling of prevailing is hollow
or false, deep down inside the student smells this
falsehood. Ultimately, you do them a disservice by
instilling a false sense of security. The stuff you teach
must work / be sound advice. The way you train them must
build them up with real successes and confidence.
It’s a balancing act. Start small and easy and build up to
complex errors and situations they need to adapt to
on-the-fly. Don’t just throw them in the deep end and tell
them how much they can’t swim. Start in the shallow end and
build confidence and competence. But make sure they are
really earning it. If they screw up or have a non-success
outcome, then do it again, and again. Never stop on a
non-success. Always come away with a feeling of prevailing.