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Breaking into your house can happen. You may be armed with a trained guard dog and a rifle or you may be armed with a mobile phone and cleaning materials. Your wits are what will keep you unharmed the same way that how you move is more important than your mass or muscle. For example…
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It is said that you are what you eat and it is true to some extent. You do however smell how you eat and that is a part of the reason why urban people don’t decay and rot if they die in the wild as animals do. If you wish to have a scent which…
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Remember as you are holding or manipulating a knife or any other tool that you are using it and not just adding it to the usual movement. If you have a knife use the knife and the arm. If you have an arm, be thankful for it and remember it. For example many simply punch…
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Take a not too sharp knife and hold it in both hands in the handle and at the tip of the blade. Place the blade at the back of your neck and simply sit down and get up a few times minding not to press the blade at your skin. Place the blade at your…
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Take the neck for example and turn it to the right. Now tense and relax a few times the front, left, right and back of the neck and note how it feels to work in this position. Turn your neck to the left and repeat and so on. This can be done for all the…
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Many times an attacker will want to attack you without you knowing the attack is coming or by overwhelming you at the start of it. This sounds logical and simple so let us work on relaxing and remaining within ourselves as we work. Have a partner and a dull knife and follow this drill: Have…
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Take your partner and start working on survival upon attacks. Work by controlling your speed and awareness of it by starting with an attack which takes 20 breaths and lower the count to one and back again. This is a very good tool to start this path of control from within and knowing that the…
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In nature we often find different places and ways to create comfort and survival conditions for ourselves. For example a pine needle bed will warm and insulate from the ground but will also add to our scent and much to our noise when moving in and out of it. Another bed can be a padded…
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Take a strip of sand or another type of soft earth and walk over it. Look back and trace your steps minding the gap between strides, the depth of the heel and toe and the drag if any of the earth in the direction of the walk. Next cover your path with leaves or soft…
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Take a knife that is not too sharp and a partner. Have the partner press the tip or line of the blade to your body including the head and work on pushing it away from your body with tension and movement using just the point you are touched with. This is of course not how…
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Sharon Friedman - Vigilance and Tranquility 