Realistic Self Defense Scenarios

These two scenarios dominate my thinking about self defense (as a man living in a city in the USA):

--You are in a bar with your co-workers celebrating a success at work. You go to the bathroom. On the way back from the bathroom, a drunk six foot one sixteen year old, who is in the bar with a fake ID, and has been doing tae kwon do for the last ten years decides that you were looking at his girlfriend and now he wants to fight. Don't get hurt, don't get arrested, don't ruin the party.

--You are dating a girl half your size, you the two of you have a big argument, and you think that it might be over. She calls you and invites you to dinner to talk it over, you accept, and dinner goes great. So great in fact that you accept her invitation to return to her eleventh-story apartment. Once there, while you are relaxing on the couch watching TV with her, she gets up and goes to the kitchen, which is between you and the door. When she emerges, she has tears in her eyes, is holding a large knife, and rushes towards you screaming something unintelligible. Don't get hurt, don't get arrested.

I answered both of these by training jiujitsu.

The following scenarios are not particularly reasonable for me (anymore), but merit attention as there are a number of places in the USA where they are extremely reasonable:

--A teenager is assigned to play the 'knockout game' with a random stranger as part of a gang initiation, two older teenagers are nearby, watching and filming on a smartphone, one of them is concealing an illegal gun. You're standing alone waiting for a ride on public transportation when this teenager approaches. Don't get hurt, don't get arrested.

--You run a small business and as far as you know, you are not involved in any criminal activity. There have been a number of home invasion kidnappings for ransom in your area. Your bedroom is at the back of your house and does not have a clear view of the street out front. In the middle of the night, you hear a crash as your front door is smashed open and hear someone shouting "PD!". Don't get hurt, don't get kidnapped, don't go to jail.

I answered both of these by not using public transportation and moving.

Does anyone else have any good scenarios besides the standard 'surprise it's a mugger' that every karate class ever talks about?

Submitted November 07, 2018 at 11:04PM by argdfagdfhjj https://ift.tt/2F9Bt9v