Understanding and Applying Self-Defense Strategies

Build a toolkit of strategies to escape potential threats and take care of your loved ones.

• By This Expert
• 01: Waking Up Your Natural Human Animal
• 02: Other Bodies as “Meat Puzzles”
• 03: Natural Targets on the Human Body
• 04: Weaponizing Your Body
• 05: Generating Power by Playing Smart
• 06: Expanding What You Are Willing to See and Do
• 07: Responding to the Ambush
• 08: How Violence Occurs
• 09: Predator Behavior and Violence
• 10: Social Conflict and Violence
• 11: Escape and Evasion
• 12: How and Why Conflict Escalates to Violence
• 13: De-escalating Your Monkey Brain
• 14: When and How to De-escalate Threats
• 15: Verbal Boundary Setting and Predator Test
• 16: Physical Boundary Setting and Defenses
• 17: Ethical Articulation Skills in Self-Defense
• 18: Physical Cheats in Self-Defense
• 19: Joint Locks in Self-Defense
• 20: Preparing for Defense on the Ground
• 21: The Ground Problem from Start to Finish
• 22: Weapons in Self-Defense
• 23: Protecting Your Very Important People
• 24: Adapt Your Self-Defense to the Environment
• 25: Bonus: Extended Warm-Up, with Adaptations