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The Impact of Drugs on Self-Defense
Dealing with Threats that are Fueled by Drugs
With the elevated porosity of our border, drugs are pouring in over the border at rates never seen before. Deaths by overdoses and poisoning are in the hundreds of thousands. It is majorly impacting society at large but it is also impacting our strategies as we prepare and train for our personal defense. This Technical Note discusses how we account for our defense against those whose behaviors are being driven by the ingestions of powerful drugs. We have included an original article by the Cleveland Clinic (whom we have no association with) as they discuss the characteristics of opiates and how they affect the users of such drugs. Here is the link to the article: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs/21127-opioids
The Realities of Self-Defense
Putting Violence in Perspective
We read, watch, talk about crime and the violence that is used to commit it. I can't image what a victim of crime feels when they are threatened and even worse, when they are a victim of physical violence. There is no rational thought that explains its use on an innocent victim. Conventional wisdom says comply, but that's no guarantee you will be left unharmed. As sane, rational citizens, we have been groomed to abhor violence in all its forms. It's just not what civilized people do. However, sane rational citizens take steps to protect themselves and sometimes the use of violence is justified.
Developing Awareness Part I
Understanding the Gut Feeling of Security or Threats
Every time we walk into an area, we automatically get a sense of whether the area is safe and secure or is unstable and threatening. We don't much pay attention to the secure feeling since that is what we expect, but its that threatening feeling that peaks our interest - but do we know what causes it? Understanding our environment is incomplete unless we have a process to evaluate and draw a conclusion as to what we need to do. Developing awareness is not just seeing the obvious, its looking for details that most people miss that might give an indicate whether we need to stay or go. Discovering that something bad, once it has started automatically limits our options for safety.
Developing Awareness Part II
3 Questions to Read an Environment
Walking into an environment may seem overwhelming with respect to trying to take a reading on the environment. So much is going on. So many people doing different things. Pat II of this 3 part series on developing awareness presents a simple methodology of three questions we need to ask ourselves to begin to understand our environment and assess it for safety. Much of this can happen in a millisecond, some of it might take longer as we scan a room we are unfamiliar with. Regardless, being safe, to many is simply luck. Without a systematic process for assessing an area and knowing how to read your environment, we can take beneficial positive action rather than reacting to something as it happens...or just being lucky this time.
Developing Awareness Part III
Reading Body Language
It doesn't take a psychic to understand what someone might be about to do. Its not a mysterious ancient gift. Its just paying attention, knowing what to look for. Its understandable, knowable and learnable. There is a whole science around non-verbal communication and reading body language. Our first level of self-defense is learning to read and understand our environment. It is the foundation of our mantra of Avoidance, De-escalation, Engagement.
Generating Force In A Strike
In this note, we explore how force is generated and the principles of generating greater force for a more efficient self-defense strike. All comments are welcome. TRTG supports the use of the reasonable and proportional use of force for the safety and survival of the person who unlawful force is used against.
The 9 Striking Surfaces of the Hand
The Hand - The Most Versatile Tool in Self-Defense
Our hands are the swiss army knives of our anatomy. They are going to be the lead tool in our self-defense whether its for striking, grabbing, deflecting, pushing, restraining or something else. Without them we would be severely limited as to how we can defend. For most of us one hand is going to emerge as the dominant hand. This is our work hand. Its the take charge hand and the other hand will act in support of the dominant hand. We took a moment to specifically document the striking edges and uses of an ordinary hand.
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