Welcome to Safety Takes Brains Self Defense

We are glad that you have decided to take your personal safety as importantly as we do. As we face trying times our, once social, infrastructure is starting to present signs of wear, and the cracks are beginning to show. Watching the nightly news is becoming an exercise in desensitization, and stories involving victims outweigh stories involving heroes. Aggression and depravity are on the rise, and violent crime is following in their wake. The Safety Takes Brains program is not meant to answer the problem of crime in our country, but more to help lower the statistics of innocent victims. We welcome you to browse each page of our site carefully to find out how the Safety Takes Brains program can help give you the tools to keep yourself safe in adverse times. You will also be able to find out about upcoming women’s self-defense seminars in the mid Michigan area that you can participate in, or set up a seminar for your organization, family or group of friends. Keep in mind, in a world where bad things only happen to somebody else, YOU are OUR somebody else.

Joshua Swanagon has been writing urban survival articles for Survival Quarterly Magazine as a Staff Editor since Volume 1 Issue 1. Survival Quarterly Magazine was started by Ron and Karen Hood of Hoods Woods and has grown into the go to magazine for wilderness and urban survival. You can purchase all back or current issues from Hood Woods and read his articles and many other great articles by some of the other fantastic Staff Editors and guest writers. Joshua’s articles include topics like picking the right self defense program, finding shelter in an urban environment, supplies to keep with you to help ensure survival in an urban environment should you find yourself lost on the streets, physiology and psychology of an aggressive encounter, navigating a strange city for travel and safety and early alert security alarms using trash and other found items when lost on the streets. Joshua will be writing more articles in the future, so make sure to keep checking for new issues as they are for sale as single issues only.

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