Self defence and personal safety for men: level 1

- Demonstrate an awareness of your surroundings
- Generate solutions to threatening scenarios
- Adapt and use boundary skills to manage threat, communicate, involve others and get help
- Adapt and use personal safety skills to provide bystander assistance and encourage additional peer support to manage risks
- Perform a number of simple defensive techniques based on good use of the body
- Escape from simple common holds
- Perform successful strikes with sufficient accuracy and power
- Demonstrate and target aggressor’s vulnerable area.

Students should wear comfortable clothing and shoes.

The class will be led by the tutor who demonstrates and participates in some of the practical work. The participants will be doing active work. Through talks, discussion and practice, students will develop a comfortable and efficient use of the body. Practical information and discussions to demystify issues on personal safety and defence will be held. As far as possible, given time constraints, the teaching will be tailored and adapted to the expressed needs and concerns of the individual student. The participants will be encouraged to share experiences if they wish to do so.