What are they and how can they give you a tactical advantage should you need them?
The four critical factors are:
Awareness
Everybody talks about situational awareness like its a given.
For those folks who dont practice it daily, its not a given.
Soft skills such as situational awareness must be developed, refined and maintained.
As with all practical protection tools, there are varying levels of awareness.
Awareness is best raised or lowered based on your current environmental conditions.
The higher the threat potential, the higher your level of awareness should be.
You are already behind the action-reaction power curve and are fighting to gain some semblance of control.
Hearing it, seeing it and/or smelling it coming ahead of time is bank.
Awareness is the currency that buys you time.
More time equates to more opportunity to solve the tactical problem.
How do you buy more time?
Appropriate your situational awareness to your immediate environment.
Distance
Say you fail to apply awareness and place yourself in a nasty situation?
Your personal battle space can span anywhere from several yards to bad-breath range.
Your continued awareness is the key.
Distance is your friend.
Your best possible response in any altercation is to create more space.
give a shot to place greater distance between yourself and the threat.
By doing so you remain mobile.
More opportunity provides you more options.
The converse is also true less space equals less time, which equals fewer response options.
The farther away you are from the threat and the more you remain mobile, the greater your options.
Training
Fortune favors the prepared.
There are only two types of people in this world those that train and those that dont.
People ask me all the time Hey, whats the best martial art out there?
The answer is, Any hard skills are good skills to have, especially when you need them!
The same applies to an edged or impact weapons including your fists, knees and elbows.
The list is endless.
One important bang out of training, often overlooked, is medical.
Its always a good idea to keep a trauma kit, to include a tourniquet, on hand.
Take Control
Either you control the battle space, or the battle space will control you.
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