This is such an important subject. I am so glad that research is backing up what myself and other self defense experts have been saying for a very long time. How you walk, how you present yourself to the world non verbally is a key indicator of your risk of being attacked or assaulted. I…
Fantastic advice here. I especially like how he describes the stride as a initial target weakness. I see this all the time with people especially women and teenage girls who are not very confident. They want to shrink into oblivion, so to speak, and their stride is apparent as shy and weak. Eye contact is…
Another good article on body language clues for violence. He brings up a couple of other items that are not in the other articles, such as hands on head, removal of clothing and lowered stance. I can not stress this enough that we need to be aware of these things. If we can avoid…
This is a fantastic article on awareness. Those of you who have taken my classes know that I preach awareness before physical skills as every good instructor should. Awareness is the key to preventing so many bad things from happening. The article is written by the “Well Armed Woman” and speaks about these things as…
A fantastic snippet of how to understand basic aspects of body language and the bad guy. I have used some of these things in my life and even some of them everyday. Good stuff. The Body Language of Deceit Posted on December 31, 2013 by Greg Ellifritz in Articles http://www.activeresponsetraining.net/the-body-language-of-deceit A couple months ago, the…