<div class="block">It&#39;s never too late to take your own personal safety into consideration. We teamed up with a couple of self defense experts to show us a few basic moves that can be used if a dangerous situation ever presents itself.</div>

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Be Well: The Art of Self Defense

For a lot of parents sending their kids off to college can be kind of scary because you worry about their personal safety and for others of us, we just worry about our personal safety in life, walking through, you know, an empty parking lot or whatever the case may be. So we came here to the experts to get some help with self defense. So John, you're going to walk me through some of the things that you know, we can use to stay safe. There are three different maneuvers that we're going to focus on today. So what's the first? Absolutely is awareness being aware of not being on your cell phone, being aware of around you, keeping your distance. If you do feel uncomfortable, put your hands up, tell the person stay back, then you'll find out their true intentions. What's gonna happen then from there, if they get closer to you, you wanna have your balance and have your awareness. If I was pushing Christine, she's gonna get her balance this way. Now I noticed right away she's not facing you, she's kind of sideways and bent at the knee. So she wants to get down and low. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Just feeling all the strength in our legs, it's the strongest part of the body. So, using that for your protection and pushing back and then being aware they might change it and pull you right away, maybe pull you into a car, pull you into a van, try to throw you down. So again, that balance is really important. Ok. So now I'm gonna try that. So even if somebody tried to pull me in a pool, which I don't recommend don't try this because I'm getting trained. But so if you went to pull me, what should I do? So I want to bend my arm as much as you can. OK? So you wanna put most of the weight in your back leg? OK? Yeah, because he's pulling, you wanna pull good. Now if you start uh falling off bounds, you can just shift up and adjust your stance so you don't fall, ok? And then I'm gonna pull back and then if I want to break your, hold on my hand, the weakest part of the grip is the thumbs. So taking your left hand, grab it onto your fist, ok? And bring your elbow down and up and then moving them back so that you could. Ok. So I wanna make sure I'm low, I drop down and then I pull back on all the way to the back leg, right? And keeping your hands up. Ok? And now if somebody did try to hit me right. What, what should I do? Bring both your hands up, keeping your thumbs in. You don't know if it's gonna be a right punch or a left punch. So direct this hand towards this side, this hand to the side and just put it on my arms here, one here and one here and then you have your balance. Right. That's it. Now, if you need to hit, then just open up your hands. So you don't wanna hit with your knuckles or you might injure your wrist. So aim for the ear to take them off balance. Swing towards that, use your elbows and your knees. So if I was attacking Christine to bring up both of her hands, you just block and from there, bam, elbow and knee and then keep distance.