Believing in something is adopting someone else’s truth when you don’t have first-hand experience with that thing. Personal Truth is what you gain from first-hand experience. Therefore you will only realize the truth of selfdefence through your own experience. As tactical elements of knifing are universal, you will be presented with tactical problems to solve, and guidance to find the answer for yourself, thus guiding you to your own truth – thus “Guided Discovery”.
Practice is a collective effort to create an environment for finding truth. Seek not to be right or wrong, but to discover clearer truths, always remembering none of us is smarter than all of us. The most observed law of practice is Congruency, dictating that practices simulate the actual dynamics, and appear in the right context, as the tactic is encountered in combat.
Guided Discovery introduces the cycle of experience, identification, completion, continued experience, observation/adjustment, and continued research/testing of findings. Only when you have continuously put something to the test can you know that it works.