Move with Purpose: How to Avoid Looking Like an Easy Target

Personal Safety

How awareness, movement and personal space can help you reduce opportunities for street crime. Criminals committing opportunistic theft or robbery, or predators looking for an easy target, may notice combinations of distraction, visible valuables, isolation, easy...

Afraid of the Dark? What the Evidence Actually Says About Darker Nights

Personal Safety, Psychology

While darker nights can make us feel less safe, surprisingly the research doesn’t show a simple across-the-board rise in crime during autumn and winter. Darkness is linked with some offences, including personal robbery and burglary, while several others peak in...

10 Things You Can Do Today to Improve Your Personal Safety

Personal Safety, Training

You can significantly mitigate risk by integrating continuous threat assessment and evasion strategies into your daily routines before a confrontation occurs. Effective personal safety relies on consistent situational awareness, basic planning before-hand, common...

Why Too Many Choices Can Be Deadly in Self-Defence Situations

Psychology, Training

In a high-stress confrontation, having too many techniques to choose from can slow your response or make you freeze. Effective self-defence training builds a small set of adaptable principles and practises them under varied, realistic conditions, helping you make...

Tactical Breathing for Self-Defence: a Foundational Skill

Training

Tactical breathing is a simple skill that can help you manage stress and think more clearly during self-defence training and high-pressure situations. The article explains the four-part breathing pattern and how to practise it in progressively challenging drills so it...