Viaualize Peace? Or Pieces? Personal Safety Is NOT Up To You

I can be the most peaceful guy in the world.  I can practice peace.  I can talk about peace.  I can live in peace with all things.   But when that guy next to me turns and says, "Whadju say 'bout my mother?" - well, all my peaceful intentions went out the door.  Or, more accurately, on the floor in little pieces, along pieces of me as I get beat and cut up.  By a guy with no peaceful intentions at all.

When that moment occurs...
When the violent person approaches you, intending to do violence on you...
When your personal safety is no longer under your control...
If you don't know what to do - he does.

Criminals and predators select people who are defenseless.  Who have their guard down.  Who feel safe.

1. Be aware of your surroundings.  Don't walk past a guy or guys standing in an alley.  Be on the other side of the room from the beligerent drunk.  Turn around and look behind you when on the street.
2. Stay with your group.  Criminals don't want to have to try to control more than 1 person.
3. Don't be drunk.  Being drunk and on the streets is incredibly stupid.  Your reaction times are slower, your awareness is impaired, and your judgement is likely to get you into confrontations, not out of them.
4. Tell your girlfriend to shut up.  Unfortunately, too many girlfriends like to challenge other guys, and too many guys feel the need to back it up.  If your girlfriend is talking smack, tell her to shut up - apologize - and get the hell out of there.
5. Don't talk to strangers.  It doesn't matter what your personal beliefs are, it is practically guaranteed that the guy who approaches you at night on the street is feeling you out.  Ignore him.  You can be rude to strangers.

The best personal safety defence is knowing what to do in a violent situation.  Because the criminal knows exactly what to do.   And martial arts schools rarely train you in realistic violence.
The school I trained at was run by a former sheriff, so we would do 2-on-1 and 3-on-1 drills.  But we did them "bum rush" style.  And more often than not, the "victim" did not use classic karate or judo training to defend himself.  It looked like a street brawl.

Learn the best practical methods to defend yourself.  Tim Larkin has studied violent criminals, dissected their mtethods of attack, and developed Target Focus Training specifically to defend against criminals.
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Because getting knocked unconcious is not the way to defend your wife or girlfriend from getting raped.
"Oh baby I'd die for you" is stupid and doesn't protect her.