Active Self Protection

When intended victims turn the tables on their attackers, it teaches us all by example how to successfully protect ourselves and our families from harm. The lessons learned here can help you in many types of encounters.

Protecting yourself in a real armed robbery takes attitude, skills, and plan. These videos consider real armed robberies caught on camera to learn lessons to better protect our families from harm and give us a better chance to emerge from a robbery victorious.

For parents with small children, self-defense isn't enough. You must think about your children in your defensive plan! In this playlist we consider incidents affecting the family and learn lessons to better protect them from real defensive encounters caught on camera.

In this playlist we examine real carjackings caught on camera for lessons learned to better protect ourselves and our families from carjackings. Cars are constant transitional spaces, and defending ourselves against a carjacking is an important part of our Active Self Protection.

Whether you're a Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) or non-sworn self-defender, these incidents will help you identify threats and take appropriate action to keep yourself safe from an attack.

Perhaps one of the scariest possibilities for self-defenders are active shooter incidents. Here we consider active shooter incidents caught on camera and find lessons learned to more successfully protect our family from harm if we're ever caught in one.

Here we analyze real-life attacks with a knife to see how they REALLY happen (not what Hollywood tells you happens) and find principles to more successfully defend ourselves against a knife assault

It's been said that we learn more from losses than from victories. As self-defenders, we try to redeem these victim's losses by learning from what happened to them to better protect ourselves and our families.