Can you handle a bigger, younger, stronger assailant who is trained in BJJ or MMA? How about 2 or 3 thugs at once? What about "fervor", are you ready to face a vicious, amoral human animal who won't stop hurting you until you are dead!! Well, there is HOPE!!
To defend yourself properly against real threats is about your Instincts, Technique And Conditioning. HOW you React at the moment of the attack, WHAT you react with and HOW long can you sustain your performance. The latter is certainly developed in SFA. You will become "Fight Fit" able to breath well and perform even under vicious, physical assault.
In order for an older person to successfully COUNTER and DISABLE the ability of an aggressive assailant to harm him, this elder person must first have Technique that is indeed the most viable and effective for each form of violence that he could face. This is one of the well springs of SFA. The material we use in Self Defense was uniquely developed under the duress of live assaults over years of study.
SFA Training is "Threat Based" where we start you in the assault and cultivate your responses while you are under duress. Of course we begin where you are able to handle but repetition is key as we change your Instincts to violence and enhance your stamina and fitness until you can perform.