I have posted on this, i.e. your exclusion zone. Exclusion zone is a phrase we used in the weapons field that I worked many years ago. Not the weapons for martial arts and not weapons used by civilians, police or military but rather weapons that go boom very, very big. The exclusion zone is that zone where deadly force is authorized so I use it to mean a zone where self-defense may be authorized (emphasis on may be authorized).
Your exclusion zone is that area within proximity of your body where one could cause your body damage. It is also that range within which either party could apply some technique for damage, i.e. striking range (note: this is empty hand stuff in case that is not apparent at this stage of the post). In most cases it is the range or zone that circles you at a distance of one arm/hand/fingertip range.
You should practice your range or exclusion zone in your self-defense training. When you are approached, in SD situations where your awareness allows it and it is not some preemptive surprise attack, you perceive this person as dangerous to you then you put up your arms and hands, open hands pointing with fingers extended toward the approaching threat, with both body language and spoken indicating you don't want to engage and that the threat must remain outside your exclusion zone.
You practice to keep moving until the threat is deescalated or you have an opportunity to quickly leave or retreat to safety. What we called in the Marines as "advancing to the rear." :-)
Hopefully your lifestyle is such that you don't have to worry about self-defense but in the event something unique and unusual occurs this is part of your defense strategy. You do have a defense strategy in your self-defense training, right?
This is just one idea, one aspect of self-defense and you should be compiling this and other tactics into a quick, easy and effective self-defense model and don't forget that the steps before you have to use a technique, etc. is to avoid and/or deescalate.
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