It’s better to lose face than to be beaten or fatally attacked. A lot of fights and attacks are started because someone feels they can’t lose face. Lifting your hands in a surrender motion gives the attacker a way out. Also never threaten it only adds fuel to the fire. A slow calm voice is more effective than any other. Use assertiveness and direct commands ‘Keep away from me’. Your reaction to a drunk putting his arm over your shoulder and how you would deal with a knife attack would be totally different. If you are ever in a situation where you may need to use self defence, you need to weigh up your attacker very early on and sometimes this may only be seconds. People who attend such clubs often are able to react a lot quicker than normal everyday people. Often the best way is to join a martial arts club to boost your confidence, improve your fitness, reflexes and physical skills. It also gets your hands closer to your face to help protect your head.īe aware of your situation. The gesture of raising your hands is a submissive one and hopefully will try and deflate the situation. By stepping into someone else’s space you can make them make uncomfortable as well and especially when people are under the influence of alcohol or drugs this can often cause unprovoked aggravation.

Also be aware of other people’s personal space. Simply step back and try and deflate the situation.

The army uses this technique to break people down. Close attacks are hard to defend against and always happen so quick, so be more aware of this in everyday life.Ī lot of attackers and bullies intimidate people by invading this personal space and getting up in your face.

Try and suss out immediately any threats by people invading this space and try to maintain it.

Remember no one should enter your personal space that you don’t want to be there. Personal space alters depending on who enters it and circumstances. Only when neither of these two options is available do you use physical self defence. The first rule of self defense technique is to run.The best self defense is prevention and not being there in the first place.It’s important that, especially in this day and age, you use common sense and never put yourself in a dangerous situation that you could have avoided. 95% of self defence is in fact avoiding confrontation the remaining 5% is physical to combat an attacker.

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