SAFE International™ is a world leader in teaching Pure & Applied Self Defense. SAFE International™ has strengthened communities, schools, businesses and households having taught over a quarter of a million people!A credible self defense program recognizes and identifies every aspect of potential violence, from its social and antisocial point of view. This begins with avoidance through prevention via both awareness and a solid understanding of how to avoid making one’s self a target. If awareness fails, then it is imperative to possess the necessary skills to verbally deescalate the confrontation and differentiate between a "good guy" having a bad day and a generally "bad guy" using proven psychological and behavioral tactics to his or her advantage. If defusing fails and the threat persists or escalates, then every aspect of physical self defense is tackled from the ambush to the most common attacks and their defenses.At SAFE International™, everything we teach is based on experience, training and decades of research into criminology, behavioural psychology and physiology in relation to violence and confrontation. Thousands of hours of testing and observation have gone into training those who are generally deemed as vulnerable and weak and how they react to confrontation with little to no training in order to establish reliable human patterns and reactions to such circumstances, and develop appropriate responses that are both natural and conducive to the average civilian regardless of age or gender.