SEPS Self Defense

SEPS Self Defense
PO Box 31
Chaucer Street
Boston Ma
Tel: 0115 851 5020
Email: Please click here

Self defense against multiple attackers

Testimonial:

"I'm a professional musician and sometimes the band I'm in gig in some pretty rough pubs. Several times I'd felt so scared I'd just froze as everything kicked off around me.

I started training in SEPS to try and address this as I knew that if I ever found myself in the middle of one of these fights I'd just freeze.

After my third lesson, I was in one of these situations and just through my posturing I managed to turn awat two guys who were coming for me.

Andrew Walters
(Birmingham)

The Use Of Psycholgy, Ethology & The Social Sciences In SEPS Self Defense

As the saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat and there is certainly more than one way to deal with an aggressive/violent situation (unless of course you have already been attacked). By understanding how aggressors act, work and understand when in highly emotional states more options are available to the individual having to deal with them. Responding physically is but one limited option.

From a physiological perspective, fear and anger are very hard to distinguish between. The body when in either ‘emotional’ state is going through almost exactly the same processes e.g. increase in heart rate and breathing, the release of adrenaline etc. How this single state in interpreted determines whether the emotion is fear or anger. To the body they are the same, to our rational/understanding mind they are very different. However both have the ability to empower us to act.

Some behaviours we learn and some we have inbuilt. Some ‘fears’ we learn and some we have inbuilt (Ethology), both can cause us to become aggressive and violent. Understanding how not to trigger these natural behaviours is vital to dealing with aggressive individuals e.g. even a rabbit will attack when cornered. Understanding how fear causes people to think and ‘reason’ is also extremely important.

Understanding how individuals propel themselves into emotional states of anger is also very important. It is vital to understand that individuals in an emotionl state of anger, always see themselves as ‘right’, they exist in an alternate reality where morality is something that they dictate. Knowing this, teaches that to deal with individuals in such a state, you yourslef cannot adopt the position of being ‘right’ if you are to be effective.

SEPS is founded on the research findings of socialogists, psychologists and ethologists, working in academia, the military, law enforcement and correctional institutions. We also conduct our own research to add to these works.

However understanding both the motives and reasonings of aggressors in violent situations is only half the story. The same research is used to understand how targets and victims of sucg aggression can cope and harness their own fear.

It is the side to SEPS, which enables it techniques to work effectively and efficiently.

We also conduct our own research program, so as to better understand the dynamics and effects of aggression and violence. You can read more about this on our self defense research page, which can be accessed by clicking here.
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