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■ Maintain eye contact with your assailant. Eye contact alone may intimidate some attackers.

■ Always watch the attacker’s hands. Your assailant may have a weapon.

■ Use your anger. Anger is a powerful drive that you can use constructively. Use your anger as a force to help you subdue your assailant.

■ Get trained in basic fighting skills. Develop the proper stability, distance, balance, speed, timing, and force.

■ Be flexible and innovative. Don’t think that there is just one way of doing things. Adapt to the situation and what’s working at that time, and then use it to your advantage.

■ Use physical and verbal distractions. You can sometimes stop a physical assault by physically or verbally distracting an assailant and then striking when the assailant is not physically or mentally ready.

■ Call for backup. Many assailants calm down once a call has been put through for backup. Even if they don’t, you’ll know that help is on the way.

■ Attack vulnerable areas. Striking assailants in their vulnerable areas will subdue them more effectively than striking them in a random, haphazard fashion.