have a background

“You must have a background of information and experience to base your decisions on.”  - Rory Miller, Drills: Training for Sudden Violence

Comment: Knowledge + Experience = Understanding is about making such decisions. If you don’t accumulate knowledge and temper it with experience, i.e., actual hands-on and/or reality-based training scenario’s, you won’t understand it and in the end you will not be able to explain the why of your actions and deeds. Even with knowledge, experience and understanding articulation is anther muscle that must be exercised if you plan on using it. Especially if you plan on using it after a violent attack involving chemical flooding. You see, the world of self-defense is far more than merely going to the dojo three times a week to practice pre-arranged set self-defense techniques, it is a complicated system.