Whether it’s out in the wild, in an urban setting, or after SHTF, self-defense is just as crucial as water, fire, food, and shelter. In fact, without self-defense, those survival factors are useless and as good as gone.
You might have the food supply to last you a decade but with threats and elements, they could still be destroyed and taken away from you.
Identify your common threats so you can apply the suitable or best defense strategy.
Most Common Threats
1. Intruders or Bad Guys
Someone somewhere will try to get you or your supply since you are competition from resources or a source. Sadly, there are also people out to get you just to hurt you.
While natural calamities and catastrophes like hurricane, wildfire, and volcanic eruptions are enormous threats, we can still try to defend ourselves and our property from these destructive elements. Our lives, supply, and resources are at huge risk from these calamities.
4. Foreign and Domestic Threats
These are large scale and organized bad guys we could be powerless against. That is why we defend the second amendment.
5. Zombies and Aliens
These perceived threats are real to many or at least considered as a possible threat in the future. With pop culture, we should know by now to avoid zombie bites and go for the head in self-defense.
Now aliens can be a bit complicated since they’re out of this world and no one can know for sure if they’ll come in peace or not and what their weaknesses are. You know you can at least try to defend yourself from a lone alien but the pack will need military intervention.
The first and most critical skill that you will need to incorporate into your self-defense strategy is basic common sense. The ability to think with logic allows you to keep calm and collected, thus helping you come up with effective survival strategies.
Even in assault situations or being held against your will, you can think of effective ways to escape or fight off your attacker. In these situations, your quick thinking helps you improvise.
In the wild, common sense dictates you to steer clear of dangerous animals. With know-how and good memory, you will survive animal attacks or avoid it in the first place.
To further fine tune your cognitive skills, getting information on survival techniques is the first step. Learning about these strategies by putting them into the test is next.
2. Self-Defense Training
If you haven’t thought about a firearm and shooting course, its about time if you are to have a fighting chance. But, self-defense training goes beyond a shooting course.
Martial arts, weapons training, physical fitness training, operating self-defense tools are self-defense strategies. You might also want to look at parkour training as a good self-defense technique.
When it comes to push and shove in a survival scenario, we all know the physically fit has the upper hand. Here are more survival fitness tips to know for your defense.
4. Self-Defense Weapons and Tools
Even in zombie attacks, there are a set of ideal weapons to effectively fight them off. But seriously, to increase your odds at survival, your self-defense strategy must include weapons and tools.
Weapons and tools and training go hand in hand in self-defense. So know your weapons options and how to use them to your defense.
On the other hand, while knowing how to use a gun or other weapons is a true survival skill, making your own weapons is the ultimate test. When you have nothing, you can simply fashion a spear, make a homemade crossbow, or smoke bomb.
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But there are also more modern ways to secure and fortify your home. It’s a smart investment to defend your home with a security system not only for when SHTF but present threats.
This video from Green Light Shooting will show you how to prepare and defend yourself from a home invasion:
To protect yourself and your base from all forms of threats is one of the cores of survival. It is helpful to be armed in some way—anything from pepper spray to a firearm can ward off attackers and a security system to defend your base.
Being proactive, aware, and cautious are the best tools one can use when practicing self-defense. Thus preparedness in all aspect is your ultimate self-defense.
Have you been working out on a self-defense strategy and training lately? Tell us all about it in the comments section below!
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February 27, 2018 at 6:21 PM
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