Ho ho ho! Top Ten Personal Safety Tips for Christmas

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For many people, Christmas Day is the happiest and most festive day of the year. The whole season is one of joy, sharing, compassion and love. Regardless of what religious significance you attach to the holiday season, one cannot help but notice that the general feeling of good will does increase towards the end of December. Maybe it’s because we know we won’t have to go to work! Sadly, for some people, tragedy strikes to sour this most festive of occasions. Here’s how you can avoid it.

Self Defence Begins with the Self

The first time someone gets involved in a confrontation that spirals out of their control, their first thought is often “I need to learn how to defend myself.” With that, they will Google, they will read, and then will often end up at the local martial arts club, boxing gym or MMA academy. Convinced that learning how to fight better will solve their issues, they throw themselves into training. They attend class 2-3 nights per week, pay their money, sweat, bleed, cry and feel proud of their efforts. Next time when that bully/abusive  boyfriend/drunken idiot at the bar hassles them, they’ll teach him a lesson, right? Maybe.

Very rarely is a far more important question asked; “What could I have done to prevent this from happening in the first place?”

5 Training Tips for Mixed Classes

On the surface, developing a self defence training plan for a group of individuals doesn’t seem like rocket science. First you work out what kind of violence they are likely to be exposed to, draw upon experience and research to figure out the skills they need to prevent or combat that violence, and then put together a training schedule to ensure all members of the class are given enough time to adequately develop the skills required. Easy, right? Not so!

10 Signs He Might Be Violent - Avoiding Abusive Relationships

Violence, especially habitual violence, is not unpredictable. In fact, if you know what to look for, it is highly predictable. For many women, their biggest concern when entering a new relationship is that their new interest may in fact be a danger to their safety. The ‘strong, silent type’ that is at first so alluring may indeed be brutish and only silent because he knows no other way to communicate than with his fists. Every year, millions of women around the world are beaten and sexually assaulted by their boyfriends, husbands and partners. Read on for 10 telltale signs that you’re better off without him.