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Understanding and Applying Self-Defense Strategies

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Overview

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

Syllabus

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  • 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

Taught by

Tammy Yard-McCracken

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