Butterflies?  

As founder and chief instructor of Defender Solutions, I have dedicated the majority of my adult life to aquiring the skills and knowledge necessary to protect myself and others.

During this personal discovery process I've learned there are thousands of techniques, skills, responses. as well as hundreds of philosophies  and disciplines that individually are effective. They all  merit exploration and mastery but in the totality of things they are just  the index cards  of  a vast  Self-Defense Library.

During the heat of the moment in human conflict there is no time for "THINKING", you must rely on your training. After learning  many techniques you possess the advantage of options to deter a threat, here in lies the problem of accessing those index cards. If you have minimal or no formal training, you are faced with the task of learning in a short period of time what is simple and effective, the answer- COCOONDO! Cocoondo is a "cocoon" of protection that identifies the most effective "Weapons of the Body" and the most vulnerable "Targets of the Body" and connects the two. During a conflict your menu of choices need to remain simple, the situation can and most likely will be very complex and even overwhelming, but the solution can remain simple- Cocoondo. There is also a symbolic metamorphosis of sorts occurring during the process of learning Cocoondo. You can experience an empowering transition from no or minimal knowledge to a high level of understanding of your options and ability to survive. This will create a higher level of confidence and natural sense of awareness or can be best described as  breaking out of your "Cocoon" ready to face what the world has to offer or throw at you. We're all butterflies- are we not?