Occham's Razor And Effective Defensive Tactics

The principle of Occham's Razor states that the simpler the strategy, the more efficient.

In other words, the more unnecessary steps involved in a process the less efficient it becomes.

It's easy to see that according to this logical principle, keeping things simple in applying tactics to defend yourself is the most efficient path to take.

The clearest example of this is developing movement and tactics that are effective against a wide range of situations and not individual defenses for every situation that can arise.
The situations involved in any conflict or altercation are nearly endless.
So trying to develop skills in dealing with every possible situation is not only inefficient and impractical, it's almost impossible.

Therefore examining the highest percentage situations and applying simple tactics that are easily performed when under stress is the logical answer.

This is why tactics must always come before techniques.