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You can lock your doors, watch your surroundings and hope you never need to defend yourself, but what happens when danger finds you anyway?

In a world where violence can happen when we least expect it, knowing how to protect yourself could mean the difference between being caught off guard and getting to safety.

Sharla Kistow has more in Your Best Self.
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00:00The following is brought to you by Ghanie.
00:51The world is becoming more and more a violent place to live in, and it's not just about
00:56our children being educated academically and sending them out, not just about us getting
01:02jobs and working.
01:04The world is a global village.
01:06Everybody knows everybody using the phone on cyberspace, and there are so many different
01:11types of predator crimes, physical crimes against the person, home invasions, women
01:18are being attacked, children are dying, their schools' violence erupting everywhere.
01:21If that enough is not a reason for people to learn how to take care of themselves and
01:27to protect themselves, which equals self-defense, then what is?
01:53Know your combat environment.
01:56Understand the speeds of approach.
01:59Watch the hands of people as they pass you by, because it's the hands that are going to
02:03grab you, not the eyes or anything like that, whether they pull a gun or reach out for you
02:07or something like that.
02:09Be prepared to disengage from an attacker 31 feet, because that's the average distance
02:15from where somebody can point a gun at you.
02:17And if you're standing still or you're in their line of fire, they will hit you and
02:21you can die.
02:22And that's happening in Trinidad and Tobago.
02:26Remember the different angles in which people can attack you, and be able to find an escape
02:33route for every place that you visit.
02:36Be aware, not paranoid.
02:46People on their phones, people walking or training with their headphones, those things
02:52lock off the outside sounds that you're not aware of your own environment.
02:57And we talk about being able to see 21 feet all around you, even if you're sitting in
03:03your car, for example.
03:05And so some of these practices that we have help us to become more vulnerable.
03:10Threat plus vulnerability.
03:12Threat plus risk is called vulnerability.
03:14So if we are not aware of those threats in the environment, how are we going to be able
03:19to mitigate it?
03:30I'm not fit enough.
03:32I'm too small.
03:33I don't fit the mold to defend myself against so many different attackers.
03:39But if you develop a blueprint for your personal safety, like I say in my books, then you would
03:44have catered for one of those scenarios where the attacker or attackers are bigger than you.
03:47And in training, you develop reflex action, you develop responses.
03:52You will not get it right the first time.
03:55And it's the reason why you train to survive.
03:58The fact that gender is an issue, that because I'm a boy or because I'm a woman or a girl,
04:04I can't defend myself.
04:06That is so totally wrong.
04:23I'm going to come with a knife as I'm going to stab in there, right?
04:28When you're lying on the ground, all you need to do is to move the head out of the line
04:34and
04:35swing your hands out to defend that, to push that knife out of the way as you come over
04:40him.
04:52So you can come in a little bit.
04:54You can come back to me.
04:55I'm going to step up.
05:08I чтобы you have a knife out of the way we just saw this.
05:10Right?
05:12I'm going to step up.
05:16I'm going to step up.
05:17I'm going to step up.
05:19I'm going to step up.
05:21The face of the right is a lot.
05:23I'm going to step up.
05:35The proceeding was brought to you by Garnier.
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