Like him or dislike him; John McSweeney was a maverick who came up with some valid concepts in self-defense. Keep it basic and keep it repetitive. Over the years in various self-defense situations I've been in I saw this over and over. If my energy and situational awareness was high; you would do things in a physical struggle or emergency you had never trained for. Somehow instinctively you would just do something that worked. You just reacted.

My old Hapkido instructor would have called this Ki, and this ability seems to come from the practice of tension and breathing exercises of various sorts. On the contrary, if life energy was low from lack of sleep, stress, poor diet, and the wrong kind of exercise; I found this ability escaped me.

In this short video I go over some simple self-defense combinations a busy person could practice at odd times during the day repetitively. The goal is to block or evade an attack, strike, and get away.