Self Defense Training

At DefendWell.com, we’re always doing our part to stay on top of the tips and techniques that matter most for your safety. This hunt often leads us to really informative sites and blogs, one of which is SELFDEFENSE-4-WOMEN.COM. Primarily targeted to women, by a woman, this site also offers great suggestions for Self Defense For Children, as well as an array of articles that are helpful for any reader, male and female alike. One of my personal favorites is her section on Psychic Self Defense, or Intuition. This deals with not only trusting our feelings, but recognizing more concrete warning signs that all is not well. This feature is a must-read for every woman, but especially those who are more fearful they are being unnecessarily mean to someone they get a bad vibe from than they are fearful for their safety.

The site is wonderfully well-rounded, providing extensive information about everything from Martial Arts to Home Security. Articles are also very well-written, which is a huge determining factor in whether I decide to stay awhile at a site, or move along! The site is clearly designed at every turn to provide high-quality information in an easy-to-understand manner – what a self-defense site should be. So many blogs and sites I’ve come across are primarily angry ‘look how cool I am’ rants about kicking criminals in the teeth. That doesn’t help anyone. SELFDEFENSE-4-WOMEN.COM does – and I hope you find it as fantastic a resource as I do.

Nowadays, reports of burglaries spread through the news like viruses. Perhaps they’re the result of living in desperate times, or perhaps they’re due to old-fashioned greed, but regardless of why these despicable acts take place, they reveal something critical about the world: the threat of criminal violence is very real, even in our own homes.

You need to feel safe at home, and at DefendWell.com, we sell protection in just about every medium. Avoiding encounters with burglars is ideal, and our wide selection of alarms will have them running scared before they have a chance to harm you or your loved ones. If you do come face to face with an intruder, however, it helps to have some kind of non-lethal weapon on hand, such as a stun gun or pepper spray. This way, you’ll be able to subdue him or her and call for help. You may also be interested in some of our instructional fighting DVDs, the lessons of which can be useful in the event that no weapons are available.

Don’t allow yourself to become the victim in these scenarios. Instead, keep trespassers at bay by shopping at DefendWell.com.

When it comes to self-defense, people are most immediately concerned with acquiring weapons, most of which are easy to operate and require little training. However, it’s important to note that there are certain risks associated with their use. Weapons are easily lost, and worse yet, misusing them can result in unwarranted injury to others or oneself. So, it might also behoove one to study the art of unarmed combat, a method of protection on which one can count if weapons are not an option.

At DefendWell.com, we want our customers to feel safe regardless of the circumstance, and that’s why we offer focus training materials in addition to weaponry. Check out 5 Second to Live or Die, a comprehensive DVD set that will teach you to act fast in volatile situations. A method of target focus training (TFT), the techniques described in this series are based solely on inherent motor skills, not athletic abilities, so once you master them, they’ll never leave you.

The threat of criminal violence is always present, so having a fail-safe counter method doesn’t hurt. DefendWell.com can help, so stop by our shop and start feeling safer today.

Dr. Zian Tseng, an assistant professor in medicine at the University of California at San Francisco recently gave three tips to local law enforcement agencies regarding methods of reducing taser related deaths. Stressing that police officers should be made of aware of fatal consequences of using tasers, Tseng said that the high-voltage weapon has “almost zero” effect on the heart if it is not fired on a person’s chest area.

“The vector over the heart is very important,” he said. “So one practical recommendation would be is if it’s possible to avoid tasering the chest.”

Tseng said that it has been shown that the more times a police officer pulls the trigger of a taser, the longer that electrical pulses course through the recipient’s body. This increases the risk of the pulses “capturing the heart and affecting the heart rhythm”, he said.

Therefore, his second recommendation is that police officers should ease up on the trigger.

“If you knew that the taser could potentially kill, obviously you wouldn’t pull it out as quickly as if you thought it was completely safe,” said Tseng in a recent media interview.

Tseng’s third recommendation is for police squads carrying tasers to be equipped with automated external defibrillators that can be used to revive a person who has been shocked with the weapon and suffered a cardiac arrest.

“These are very easy to obtain, they’re relatively inexpensive, and, in my opinion, if a police agency is using the taser, they should have the defibrillator available in case a cardiac arrest happens,” Tseng said.

To law enforcement agents everywhere: practice safe tasering tactics in order to reduce the amount of damage to an attacker while still delivering the protection you need in self-defense.

In your neighborhood, do you feel safe? Thanks to the University of West Florida, women just like you can start feeling more secure walking home, on campus, or just about anywhere.

Women can learn realistic self-defense tactics and hands-on defense training at the University of West Florida’s next Rape Aggression Defense course beginning Feb. 28.Classes, taught by nationally certified instructors, educate women on rape awareness, prevention, risk reduction and risk avoidance, and teach basic self-defense techniques and training – an essential for a woman living in the West Florida region.

Many classes like these have sprung up across the nation in community centers and college campuses alike. Not only are women receiving self defense training, but some programs are now offering Self Defense Product Training where students can become educated on the proper protocol for using items like Pepper Spray. Call your local community center to find out what kinds of programs exist in your area.

The first two of the four-session classes will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 28 and March 1 at UWF. The cost is $15. To enroll or for more information, call Officer Wendy Boles at 474-3274.

The latest Census Bureau figures show 4.5% of the homes and 16.6% of the rental apartments and condos in Florida are vacant, among the highest rates in the nation. In south Florida alone, specifically Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, 3.6% of the homes are vacant, while 13.1% of the rental apartments sit empty. This high rate of vacancy has been found to be connected to a higher rate of burglary, especially in conjunction with the chaotic economy. We already now why burglars are searching for easy targets. Now we know where they are looking.

The foreclosures and empty homes can be a draw for burglars and thugs, who view the empty houses and condos as easy targets for stealing items like appliances, left behind personal property, glass, copper piping, or other materials that could be sold. The foreclosed properties are an issue for local law enforcement agencies also.

“It’s definitely a problem that we’ve seen and that we have to deal with. We did see an increase in homes that are foreclosed become targeted,” Sgt. Tom Gendreau with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said in an interview with a Florida media station.

Don’t let your neighborhood become a target for criminal activity. Start protecting yourself and your home with Self-Defense Products found at DefendWell.com. From Pepper Spray to safes, stun guns and focus training, DefendWell.com is here to help Florida homeowners like you protect their livelihood and send a clear message to burglars in your community: this behavior will not be tolerated.

If you’re a college student, you already know about the safety hazards and dangers that surround your campus. Instead of feeling powerless, take control of your safety. Learn to use Self Defense Tactics and products responsibly. These preventative measures, when coupled with common sense and attentiveness to rules and surroundings, can make all the difference in your college experience.

Deputy Chief Chuck Miner with the University of Minnesota Campus Police said he thinks self-defense items are generally a good thing — as long as the people carrying them know how to use them. He said in a recent interview with a self-defense products retailer that university police “certainly encourage people to protect themselves.” He does think there are pros and cons; however, to using self-defense products in a campus encounter.

“Pepper spray can blow in the wind and affect the user,” Miner said. “(Campus police) recommend other things like free escort services.”

The key to utilizing self defense products properly is to learn about them through taking classes at your local community center or by contacting your campus security office. Both resources can equip you with the knowledge and experience you need to deflect an incident should one occur. Either way, you’ll feel safer and more secure about your overall college experience.

When walking in the evening, it’s hard to notice if someone is following or watching you from afar. Couple the darkness when being tired from a long day, you are more focused on getting home rather than your surroundings. You could find yourself in a situation where there isn’t time to reach for a self-defense weapon and the only defense against some punk is yourself.

That is why martial arts instructor Tim Larkin developed Focus Training, a method of self-defense that uses quick reactions to deliver devastating attacks to subdue an attacker. Focus training provides you with the skills needed to turn yourself into a formidable weapon to ward-off any attack.

This training will teach you how to overcome any situation, even if the person attacking you has a weapon. The trick is to know the person attacking you has a weapon, avoid it, and subdue the person quickly and efficiently. Tim Larkin’s training won’t make you fearless, instead it will teach you how to ignore that fear and to do what needs to be done to survive.

This training comes in the 5 Seconds to Live or Die, which teaches you the full program of hand-to-hand/hand-to-weapon fighting techniques such as striking, targeting, and using leverage to ward of an attacker or even multiple attackers. Or you could just purchase the Defending Against a Gun or Knife which teaches hand to weapon fighting.

In any event, when you invest in a self defense item you should take into account how you access it. Unless you plan on walking around with a taser or pepper spray canister out and at the ready at all times, training yourself to be a weapon is the logical option.