Unarmed Self-Defense

If you totally center your self-defense plan on the use of weapon you may find yourself in trouble.

• It can take the focus off of preventative self-defense: awareness, communication, and self-confidence. Weapons are only tools of the fighter. YOU are the fighter.
• It can undermine a major component of self-defense, namely self-confidence, by placing confidence in the weapon. YOU are the prime weapon.
• There may not be time to draw, aim, and fire the weapon so some unarmed self-defense action should be expected. Nonetheless you have to practice, practice, practice use of you weapon. Just packin wouldn't do the job. Any mule can pack a 45.
• Having the weapon may create the illusion that the weapon will do the work and that practice is not needed
• It can lead to neglect planning what to do when the weapon does not work. The stun gun battery may be dead. The pepper spray canister may have lost pressure. The firearm may misfire.
• It does not work in situations where you as a common citizen are not allowed to carry certain weapons: airplanes, court houses, Federal buildings, firearms on Amtrak, firearms at Whole Foods stores, and perhaps some weapons restrictions on the premises of your employer.

Unarmed self-defense practice builds fitness and self-confidence through practice that makes self-defense actions reflexive and natural. Self-defense situations are transformed from one of fear to a focused effort using what you have learned. And you will always have your own natural weapons of hands, elbows, knees, feet, and body. If other weapons are available then GREAT, use them, work them into your training.

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The following is a list of self-defense training sources. They are listed alphabetically by country and state or province.

United States

Arizona

Louisiana

New Jersey