Street Defensive Tactics (SDT for short) is as the name implies wholly and solely focussed on defensive tactics, that is street self-defence with Krav Maga being at the core of what we do.
We train for a very broad set of circumstances. The chaos of a street confrontation involves potentially being at varying distances from your opponent(s), from kicking distance to body-to-body. You may be standing, seated or on the ground, there may be one or many opponents, and they may be armed. It may be dark, the ground hard, uneven and/or slippery and the space confined or crowded with others who may be neutral or potentially hostile.
The threat may be anything from simple verbal harassment through to something life-threatening. And in all instances the emotions of fear and anger will be present in the situation with their attendant degradation of psychological and physical functioning. This is the nature of confrontations.
SDT is foremost a tactical system that emphasises choosing the best (read ‘smartest’) response for a particular circumstance. Confrontations occur in stages and the response is dependent on the stage. For the ‘fight’ stage that response may be escape, compliance, talking to defuse, posturing or fighting with a degree of force anywhere along a continuum, or any combination of the above as required to achieve a chosen strategic objective. For any given confrontational circumstance, the choice of threat response is unique to the individual concerned.