Living in a dorm while attending college can be a fun and enlightening experience that enhances college life. However, in order to fully enjoy this time in life – and living away from home for the first time – it is important to remember how to stay safe.

In order to not overwhelm you with one huge list, I have split these tips into two so you can fully digest them and hopefully implement as many of them as possible as soon as possible. Because home safety is not the only thing you need to think about, I also recommend that every person also learn how to fight.

There isn’t anyone who won’t benefit greatly from learning self defense, or learning martial arts techniques for fighting, or developing a home safety plan. In this post, I am going to give you a short and sweet list of tips to increase and maintain safety at home.

Put best, if every person on earth lived with more respect (for themselves, for others, for the earth) then we would have no violence; no wars; quite likely even no poverty.

I’ve talked before about bullying in schools and how words do indeed have the power to hurt. If you are a parent of a school-aged child, you know the pain felt when bullying occurs. What’s great about martial arts techniques is that they give an individual the power to fight off an attacker.

In keeping safe at home and on the go, there are more ways than one to go about it. Of course, as much as I recommend using any tool that is legally at your disposal, I believe that there is always a need for self defense training.

I said there were plenty more weapons, and here they are! In all my years of studying and teaching military self defense, I have never underestimated the value of tools. And tools are whatever you can find. Tools can be your fists or feet; it can be the martial arts training that you have received, or the training you have taken in military self defense.

It’s that time of year that I love oh so much. The time when teams from all around the country are showing what they’ve got; and individual players vie for their spot on the team they want to play for. You’ve got it! Time to pull out those chicken wings and watch some football!

When you are studying martial arts or self defense, you gain valuable assets – the actual martial arts moves or self defense techniques that you will use to stay protected in a violent situation. However, the effectiveness of your assets is not only dependent upon the individual moves; it is dependent on you and your overall power.

In training for personal safety, there are two main roads that people tend to take.  One is to train in the martial arts.  Training in martial arts is good for body and mind; I learned a lot from the martial arts training that I have received over the years.
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