Low Impact Self Defence Programs designed for mature aged students

The majority of self-defence training involves 90% passive resistance techniques. Skills of awareness, incident avoidance, tactical positioning, body-language and assault prevention techniques are part of passive resistance training that can do more to insure your continued safety than the physical defence training.

Self-defence training teaches us to recognize and avoid hazardous situations.

Body-language skills [non-verbal communication] teach us to use our body language to control unwanted attention and lessen our vulnerable appearance.

Mental preparation is as important as any physical preparation we do. We prepare our combat mindset so that the danger of freezing or shutting down is eliminated.

Self-defence training should be more important to the older members of our community for bullies and predators are usually cowards and they prey on what they perceive to be "weak targets" like the elderly, or they hide behind the "safety" of numbers or weapons and sometimes both. The human predator wants an easy conquest. He will seek out those he perceives as weak, submissive and unwilling to put up adequate resistance.

The attacker has a perceived advantage of size and strength, he is younger, fitter, and confident he has found a victim. Self-defence strategies and techniques help to overcome this advantage. Defence training establishes correct pathways to response and develops an attitude that is committed to our survival.

Self-defence knowledge reduces fear, builds confidence and reduces one's victim potential. Persons perceived vigilant with the potential to resist [not fight] discourage victim selection.

Don't see yourself as a potential victim but someone who is able to act positively in a confrontation.

We hope never to encounter physical violence but preparing a personal safety package just in case makes sense.

LOW IMPACT SELF-DEFENCE
Course content

Part A

1. Awareness Skills - Intelligence gathering includes

- Attacker evaluation Awareness skills
- Situation analysis
- Tactical evaluation skills
- Risk assessment

2 Incident avoidance - The best defence is not to be attacked.

3 Distance management

- Securing your perimeter
- Protecting your personal space.

4 The study of victim selection

5 Conflict management skills

- Evade and deflect force.
- Disengage from conflict safely.

6. Threat assessment and threat reduction techniques

7. Knowledge of human reactions and reflexes

8. Intuition

- using our inbuilt warning system that makes us aware of danger
- Don't ignore your instincts..

9. De-escalation strategies

10. Mental preparation

- helps overcome surprise
- helps overcome the shock of a violent situation.

11. Passive resistance techniques

-body language
-defensive positioning.

12. Travel safety

- In public and private transport.

13. Legal boundaries in the use of force.

14. Witness skills and reporting a crime.

Sometimes while physical intervention to stop a crime is not possible, being able to give details to the police could lead to an arrest

Part B

Physical defensive skills

1. Distraction techniques.

2. Balance retention techniques.

3. Vital target selection

- Soft tissue targets
- Structural targets.

4. Physical resistance techniques

- The physical resistance techniques in this course involve natural movements, requiring limited movement and require minimum force because they target areas of skeletal weakness in the attacker.