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Build a toolkit of strategies to escape potential threats and take care of your loved ones.
Understanding and Applying Self-Defense Strategies
Overview
Syllabus
- 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
- By This Expert
Taught by
Tammy Yard-McCracken
