SELF DEFENSE
Name: Cristyl Shine G. Bariao. _ Course & Section: BSN 1-D _
Date: May 1, 2021 _ Rating: ___________________
ASSESSMENT:
1. What are the topics we discussed during midterms? Share your insights about the topics.
The first topic that we discussed is all about body conditioning. We just recall
the topic that we tackled in first semester. We discussed about the warm up, stretching,
and cool down exercises, their important when doing a physical activities or exercises.
Also, we talk over the physical activity pyramid, it is useful and helpful to people live an
active lifestyle especially to those beginners, what would be the best way to start in order
to reduce the health risks associated with inactivity and to reduce the injury risks
associated with too much activity. When we say body conditioning, it is not only
beneficial to physical health but also to over-all well-being. Conditioning your body is
helpful and important in self defense because when your body is in condition and your
mental health is in condition you can defend yourself effectively. And that’s the second
topic that we discussed, self defense. The definition or meaning of self defense, some of
the defense mechanism, the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud, and the five keys to
a self-defense mindset. In order to protect yourself in any kind of dangerous situations,
you need to train or prepare your mental health in a good and proper condition because
unhealthy mindset might lead you to a dangerous situation. Self defense starts with your
mind because when you’re aware in your surroundings it will increase your safety. Your
instinct or gut will help you avoid the potential danger so awareness is a must because
you don’t know when something bad will happen to you, what will happen to you, where
you will can be attacked, how you will be attacked or who can do bad things to you. Our
brain is the best defensive tool to keep ourselves out of trouble. And, one of the useful
components to help people put distance between themselves and threats or unwanted
feelings are defend mechanisms. Also, there are five keys to self-defense mindset that are
helpful to increase our situational awareness. Being aware of our surroundings helps us
identify dangers and avoid those dangers, this is where are self defense begin, we need to
train and cultivate especially now because our world become more complex than before
because being clueless, distracted unprepared is far more likely to attract predators. And
the last topic that we tackled is about the cooper color code by Lieutenant Colonel Jeff
Cooper. There are four level of awareness but they added one level which is the black
condition. So, all in all there are five level of awareness. It's a psychological technique for
getting over your avoidance to killing people. The color code allows you to alter your
mental state in four stages, each of which allows you to resolve your mental block and
take life-saving action. The purpose of these is to give a baseline to identify the
psychological condition of a person dealing with life-threatening situation. The five color
code of awareness is white, yellow, orange, red and black. White condition is when a
person is unprepared, unready, or unconscious to take action, example is when you were
asleep or intoxicated. Yellow condition is you are relaxed and unalarmed but aware and
alert, you are casually scanning, example is when you wake up from a sleep because
something has fallen and make a noise. Orange condition is when you are already
identified the potential situation and start evaluating the situation and formulating a plan.
Red condition is when you are ready to take action. The threat is verified and ready to
run, hide or fight. And lastly, the black condition, this is the color code that we must not
possess because this will bring us to much more danger because instead of saving
ourselves, it will cause to our early death. This is when a person is in panic and
breakdown of physical and mental performance. These are the topics that we discussed
during midterms.
2. Formulate your do’s and don’ts that you can use to defend yourself.
DO’S TO DEFEND MYSELF DON’TS TO DEFEND MYSELF
Be aware of surroundings and be
Avoid dangerous situations or don’t go
observant. In order to know if there’s a
somewhere alone and places that you’re
possible danger or if someone is
not familiar with.
plotting something bad to you.
Act confident and focused because Don’t panic and zone out. In order to
looking fragile or weak makes you as an think properly, correctly and clearly on
easy target. what to do.
Trust yourself, your gut or instinct when Don’t accept a car ride with stranger or
you feel that someone is following or hitchhike with someone you don’t
observing you. know.
Always bring or carry personal
Don’t take alcohol or drugs because
protection tool to defend yourself
when you’re intoxicated, you’re more
especially when there’s no other way to
vulnerable to a danger or to an attack.
escape than to fight with the criminal.
Don’t use phone because it might be the
Make or have a list of emergency
time when the attacker moves to attack
contact on your phone like local police
you because you are unaware and
department.
inattentive to your surroundings.
Always tell someone (your family or
Don’t escalate the situation or don’t do
friends) where you’re going, for them
such things that makes him/her/them
know if there’s something bad happen
much more angry or mad because it
to you, so they can immediately contact
may cause much worst scenario.
the authorities.
Don’t runaway if you know that you
Keep a steady breath or be calm, don’t
can’t run faster than the criminal. Think
let your fear consume you. Do look like
about what you were capable of doing
a strong independent woman.
in a dangerous situation.
Stay in a well-lit public area. Always go Don’t do reckless thing to avoid putting
to the places where there’s a group of
yourself into more danger. Think a plan
people/ crowded places or walk with
or strategy before you do an action.
your friends/family.
Try to distract the criminal in a way that Don’t carry or use anything that the law
he/she wouldn’t notice that you were may would regard as an offensive
distracting him/her for you to make an weapon because you might end up in
escape plan or to find the best way to jail instead of the criminal who try to
exit. attack you.
Learn some basic physical self defense
Don’t attack the criminal with too much
to defend yourself in any kind of
force that will lead him/her to death
situation. It is one of the important
because you could end up being
components to save yourself to a
charged with assault. Excessive force is
dangerous situation especially when the
not considered as a self-defense.
attacker is aggressive and too violent.
