For those of you who have little experience in fighting, hand-to-hand combat against a single person, raised in the street, is no easy challenge. No doubt, they will have the advantage. The difficulty increases exponentially with each additional threat. I don't believe that pepperspray is effective enough unless you have some degree of control over your adversary.

To much of the advice above, I say: Hope is not a strategy. Hope is not a method. Hope has nothing to do with what is actually going to take place in what you had better assume to be a life-or-death encounter.

Most everything that you have learned is contrary to hurting another person. Violent action, to have any degree of predictable success, has to be practiced. The question as to whether you are capable of killing another needs to be answered today. Violence has to be a mode that can be switched on and off. Because, the fight may very well be in your face in that amount of time.

Increasing your odds of survival is more than just carrying an Altoids tin. An all-encompassing approach recognizes that very serious danger is about and forges the mind into a weapon always at the ready to meet that danger.