Okay, whether you just got threatened by someone or you’re just curious about what crazily easy self defense techniques and tips you can learn today and start implementing almost immediately, this article is for you who doesn’t have many hours to spend on learning a martial art or self defense system. If you want to be a master of quick self defense tips and techniques, this article is tailored for you.

Better safe than sorry right? Let’s get into the meat of this article!

The best self defense technique, if you’re in a threatening situation right now:

Note: If you are in a threatening situation right now, if possible please call 911 before using any of these techniques – 911 should always be your first priority IF it’s possible to dial in the specific situation.

1. Become conscious of your surroundings

If you feel like you are in a dangerous or shady area at night or day for that matter, try to limit your usage of your smartphone and rather become conscious of your surroundings.

If you feel like you’re being watched or someone is following you, head towards a public place, eventually strike up a conversation with people in a hotel reception or in a supermarket or something and express your concern about being followed, just be open and tell them the truth, most people will only help you out and do their best to help you. Probably one of the most powerful self defense tips I can give you.

2. Create urgency & attention around you

This self defense technique is a no brainer. If someone is trying to attack you or catch you or you feel like someone is really creepy, don’t hold yourself back – Start yelling or screaming words like “ATTACKER” “HELP” “SOS”, make it as LOUD and CLEAR as possible! If you got a whistle on you, know that this may not be enough, which is why you should scream words instead!

3. Use a self defense weapon

If you got a self defense weapon on you, you should of course use that ASAP. More and more people are getting pepper sprays, which can be very useful in a threatening situation. Maybe consider getting one, I personally know a few people who have told me that the POM pepper sprays are really useful, and even one of my friends have used in a real life threatening situation, where the pepper spray actually ended up saving my friends life, thanks to the pepper spray. I got myself one from Amazon, you can get one yourself, if you click here

Other self defense weapons such as tactical pens, canes, pocket knifes etc. can of course also be useful, but these are quite lethal, so use these with big caution, compared to a pepper spray which is pretty much non lethal.

INDIAN RIVER INLET, Del. – Petty Officer 3rd Class Larry Pennington, a member of Coast Guard Station Indian River Inlet, flushes his eyes with water after receiving pepper spray on his face during Boarding Team Member training, 9:38 a.m., Feb. 8, 2011. Boarding Team Members are the Coast Guard’s law enforcement personnel. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lindberg.

4. Create your own self defense weapon in seconds

Another easy to do self defense tip that is good to keep in mind, is creating your own weapon in seconds. If you don’t have any pre-purchased self defense weapon on you, you can quickly create one yourself, in a matter of seconds IF you got the right materials on you.

It can be as simple as grabbing your keys, and sticking them out through your fingers so you create a wolverine like blade

Maybe you got a perfume/deodorant on you, use that to spray it in the attackers eyes or mouth (can be lethal, depending on the toxic levels of the product)

Be creative, you can use a lot of different things!

Think of something sharp, something heavy or something toxic.

5. Attack the attacker in the right areas

Some areas on the body are better to attack than others, simply because of the sensitivity of these points on the body. This is one of those self defense techniques you won’t forget for a very long time, it’s just so easy to remember, and most of it you already know intuitively.

Here is a list and image of the best points to injure, when defending yourself:

Eyes – Because the eyes aren’t protected by bones or muscle, so it hurts more and makes more damage + you can blind the attacker or cause some other serious injury in the eyes.

Nose – Because it’s not that difficult to break a nose, and it hurts like hell!

Jaw – When you hit the jaw with a serious punch or kick you can knockout the attacker

Cervical vertebrae – Enough damage on this area, can give the attacker some serious pain and death if you make enough damage on this point

Throat – Attacking this point of the body can close the airways of the attacker which can result in death

Solar plexus – Attacking this area can knock the breath out of the attacker

Kidney – With enough pressure and power on this pain point you can kill a person or make the attacker unconscious for quite some time

Groin – Damage here can make the attacker infertile and can knock him out and make him unconscious

Knees – Kicking the attacker on the knees, can take the attacker to the floor, maybe even break his legs.

6. Know your endurance

Even though you might be super exhausted while fighting with a potential attacker, and you feel like giving up, remember that when you believe that you’re almost done and out of energy, you always got 60% more to give, than what you previously thought. This is the words of David Goggins himself.

7. Disarm an armed attacker

It’s crucial to be able to disarm an armed attacker, it’s one of the most important self defense techniques I can give you and it’s actually not as hard to do, as you might think it is, only the courage to do it, requires some serious balls.

Disarming a gunman is also often taught in martial arts, if you wish to dive deeper into martial arts, which is a great way of learning how to defend yourself, I suggest you take a look right here, to learn more about disarming gunmen and defending yourself in general, by the use of martial arts. Learning martial arts is probably the most in-depth and best way to learn various techniques for defending yourself.

8. Use Security Apps

Using security apps, can be a great way to defend and protect yourself. It’s a great tool to use in the urban jungle and in the technological world.

I recommend that you get the App “Life360”, but it only makes sense to get if your family and maybe your friends want to join you on this idea, but I can really only highly recommend it! The App is simple to install, and it has several paid options.

TL;DR of the app: You create a private room with your friends and family (you get to choose who is invited) and inside that room you can location track each other and update each other wherever you are and what you’re currently doing.

The cool part I like about this app is, that you aren’t bound to share your location all the time, you decide whenever you want to activate it. So let’s say you’re going to do something for yourself, that you don’t wish to share, simply just turn off the location tracker, on the other hand, if you’re going to drive for some hours somewhere, it might be fine to activate the location tracker, so people can see wherever you are and if you’re involved in an accident your family and friends get noticed immediately and they can send you help from the app, cool right?

You can download it on iTunes here and Google Play Store here.

There is a lot of other security apps out there like:

GeoZilla

OwnTracks

Find My Friends

And many more.

9. Get your locked wrist free

If your wrist is locked, it’ll feel natural to try to escape the lock.

It’s actually not as hard as you might have imagined, it’s a pretty gentle move, and it has a lot of value in it – Good to know!

10. Orient yourself and look for escape routes

As soon as you feel that you are in danger, start looking for exit routes all around you, so you know where to go if someone is suddenly attacking you. Keep your head cold and look at your situation from a birds perspective, instead of paying too much attention to your emotions at that time. You have to be logical in a situation like this, not sit down and cry.

11. Act confident and threatening towards your attacker

As soon as you get attacked, you have to surprise your attacker, like REALLY surprising! Do something that they haven’t expected at all. I learnt a lot from watching this short little video on YouTube, it’s pretty much a no-brainer, but it’s a good reminder to do, if you end up in a scary situation.

12. Be constantly moving / dynamic

If you’re in a combat, you have to be as dynamic and constantly moving as possible, so the attacker never really knows where he has you, you have to confuse him and make the situation really tough for him. You have to show him/her that you got control of this situation and his knowledge about fighting is at absolute zero!

13. Get your hands free from a zip tie

Getting your hands free from a zip tie is really valuable, and isn’t hard to learn – But you need a bobby pin to get free. Zip ties are much more commonly used now than hand cuffs and duct tape.

14. Be optimistic and trust yourself

I believe that you can survive almost any situation, but it’s all depending on your mindset in the particular situation. If you’re creating defeating thoughts for yourself in a life threatening situation, then you’re setting yourself up for failure or eventually getting yourself killed.

You have to be optimistic, trust yourself and give 110% of what you got.

Have you ever thought about the scenario of maybe being on a boat or a ferry in a massive ocean, and being afraid of the boat or ferry sinking? Imagine if it sank, and you had to swim.

The people who dies are often the people who are defeating themselves by their mindsets, the people who are optimistic and keep on going no matter what, no matter how brutally hard and difficult it is, are the ones who survives.

This is personally my favorite “self defense technique”, as everything you do is dependent on your mind and thoughts! Do you think top athletes, CEO’s and other successful people are talking bullsh#t to themselves when in stressed situations?

What you put in, is what you get out – Do your best!

15. Protect yourself when pushed against a wall

Keep your head away from the wall, by keeping your arms straight in front of your body and your fingertips pointed towards the ceiling. Release one of your hands from the wall and make a badass hammer fist and strike the attacker with your fist.

16. Get free from handcuffs

Figure out what type of handcuffs it is, and use a tool like a needle or a bobby pin. Handcuffs are actually losing their value for police offers and the military, as more and more people are too informed on how to escape from cuffs, which I find quite funny.

17. Survive if you’re getting drowned

If you’re so unlucky that someone is trying to drown you, fear not because here is the absolute master technique to use, if you want to survive an attempt to getting drowned – Super valuable.

Keep calm, crouch and bounce and then inhale!

18. Throw the absolute perfect punch!

Throwing the absolute perfect punch is a really great skill to have. Put your entire weight into a fat a$$ punch, and you’ll be surprised at the power of your fist. Trust me on this, I’ve followed this infographic as I was at boxing training, this is surely powerful.

19. Carry an everyday protection kit

For some people, this may be too much to carry a protection kit every single day, as that will just make them even more cautious and afraid than they have to be, but if you’re really afraid of getting attacked, this is a smart, practical and great idea to always carry a protection kit with you.

Gather yourself some everyday items and keep them on you always.

20. Survive from an active shooting scenario

If you’re in a situation where there is an armed person shooting around and killing people, it’s always a great idea to know the best way to survive, don’t you think so? This is becoming more often as the amount of terror attacks is on the rise.

21. Perform a powerful elbow strike

Crush your attacker with a super powerful elbow strike, this is a more hardcore strike than you can imagine! This is a self defense technique, that literally knocks out whoever is attacking you! It’s preferred that you aim your strike at either the:

Throat

Temple

Chin

Or any other sensitive area on the body, but definitely best to target the areas listed above.

22. Start a fire with your smartphone

Starting a fire with your smartphone, you haven’t thought about that one huh? Yeah, you can actually start a fire with your phone, which can come you in handy if you’re in a situation where you need to escape from something you’re locked to etc.

23. Turn a pen into a self defense weapon

This one is of course a no-brainer self defense technique, but pens can be really lethal if used correctly. It’s an everyday thing that we often carry with us, so it may be the perfect savior for you in a threatening situation!

24. Know what to eat if stranded in the wild

You never know where you could end up if you’re caught by an attacker or dropped off somewhere out in the wild. It’s always good to know what you can survive of when in the wild – Not only when attacked, but also if you’re in an airplane that crashes some day and you end up in a forest with no supermarket nearby.

25. Know when the sun goes down if stranded in the wild

When you’re stranded in the wild, you always have to set goals and plan ahead, so you’re focused on what you need to do, like trying to find water, trying to find a house, trying to find food, a good place to setup a shelter etc. You have to plan this according to when the sun goes down, so you aren’t operating in complete darkness. Here is a smart infographic, that shows you how to measure the time of the sun.

Congratulations, you’re now a master in easy self defense techniques!

Thank you so much for getting this far in the article, and you should thank yourself too! Now you know 99.9% more about the most essential self defense techniques than the rest of the world population.

A lot of these self defense techniques was borrowed from the book “100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative’s Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation” written by Clint Emerson. This book is a super simple read and REALLY useful to have, so if you feel like it, go grab it right here.