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Experienced martial artists may know this through training and combat. For the uninitiated, a first blow can cause numbing shock, followed by an adrenaline-induced freeze.

Violent crime in South Africa continues to evolve, encroaching upon towns and communities once considered safe. Criminals are increasingly brutal, and the effects of Covid 19 have only intensified this trend. In such an environment, self defence training must adapt to realities on the ground.

Strength against any attack is “quite simple” – all that you need is the correct mindset and the ability to physically overcome your attacker.

I had passed Selection Course. December 1975, Ops Savanah. The bush was alive with silence. My ‘Hunter Group’ team had been tasked to deliver helicopter fuel to an aerodrome in Serpa Pinto. We knew there was enemy contact ahead as we heard the sound of shooting and mortar shells being dropped in the area not too far from us. We couldn’t take the road into the town so I decided that we should go through the bush and around the outskirts of the town. As we moved closer to the objective, the rounds swishing in the air above told us from which direction and how far away the enemy was. As we moved towards our target, moving through terrain that seemed to breathe with its own tension, we had just crossed our last line of cover from fire when, without warning, our world erupted, gunfire cracked, dust flew up, and the ambush was on us.

In a world defined by rapid change and constant uncertainty, the ability to make clear, timely decisions is invaluable.

In the early 1960s, Albert Bandura conducted what became one of the most influential studies in behavioural science: the Bobo Doll Experiment.

There’s a memorable moment at the start of The Bourne Identity. Jason Bourne sits in a diner, bewildered by his own identity, yet acutely aware of details others would miss.