When you want to learn self-defense so that we can defend yourself, you need to know about the important components of self-defense. These components will help you to understand self-defense and learn it better.

Self-defense training

Ongoing self-defence training is very important to ensure that you not only learn self-defence that you can use but also keep yourself ready for using them. It will also help you to achieve optimal health and safety.

Self-defence training will help you to toughen up. Such a training will include combative drills as a form of exercise, functional exercises for improving combative performance and strategies which will help you to toughen up physically, mentally and emotionally.

Self defence intelligence

Your brain is your most powerful weapon. The intelligence means development of awareness, situational assessment, threat recognition and decision-making. The intelligence will help you in fighting your opponent and will also help you to streets survive. If there is an incident, the intelligence will help you to become aware of it and will help you to think what you need to do. It will help you to resolve threatening situations by detecting, recognising and taking decisions.

Without this intelligence, you will not be able to survive. Even though you know a lot many things but if you do not have the intelligence to understand what to use at a given situation, your knowledge will not be of any use. Your intelligence will help you to create the knowledge about violence and confrontation which will help you to take more accurate and realistic countermeasures.

Self-defence response strategies

Different self-defence situations will be different. No two self-defence situations can be similar and so your response also needs to be different. There are different variables and factors which will make the situation is different. So, if something works in one situation it may not work in another and it may actually backfire and make things worse.

That is why, you will need a range of response strategies. You'll also need the ability to use those strategies at the right time so that you are successful. You can learn about different self-defence response strategies and then apply them accordingly depending on the situation.

Prevention

If you are learning to defend yourself, you'll also need to know about prevention. Such precautionary actions will help you to reduce the possibility of falling victim to a violent, predatory or a criminal situation. It is not possible for anyone to apply safety tactics when you think you need them. Bad things may happen to you when you do not expect. And so you need to have precautionary actions so that you are ready for any situation. You can evaluate your lifestyle and then decide the right balance between living your life and being safe.

There are many things which can be done to improve your security and personal safety. Some of those things may be simple but some others may be complex. You need to understand the fundamentals of prevention so that you can take the necessary steps to ensure your personal safety. Once you know them better it'll be easier for you to improvise and adopt which are more applicable to you.

Victim selection

Not all the people become the victim of a violent crimes. Many people are evaluated and passed over and some are selected to be victims. You need to understand that there is a victim selection process and there are criteria for desirable target. When you know that, it is possible for you to lower the probability of being selected as a potential victim.

References

1. Protective Strategies Self-defense Site
2. Use of force in self defence at the place of residence
3. Self-Defense Training in Women With Trauma