Avoidance

Like “situational awareness,” avoidance is a lot more than merely avoiding a fight, an attack or the need for physical self-defense. Avoidance involves situational awareness and that subject, like avoidance and the whole of self-defense, is a lot more involved than one might think. I also doubt many SD models address this much like they fail to address the full spectrum of SD, situational awareness and avoidance, etc. I say this because I once taught a martial art as if it were self-defense, NOT. 

The same knowledge that the author, of the book below, provides so that one can truly begin to have and understand situational awareness also goes for avoidance (in my view anyway). You cannot have SA without the knowledge that allows you to be aware of what constitutes such things as so goes avoidance. How can you avoid danger, etc., unless you have the knowledge to “know what to avoid.” 

To avoid even a verbal conflict takes a lot more than knowing how to dump a person to the ground, restraining them to limit their ability to do damage and then either leave quickly or hold them in abeyance until authorities arrive to handle things. Recognizing what you say and what the other person is saying and how to handle those is also knowledge necessary for avoidance. 

Bibliography:

MacYoung, Marc. “In the Name of Self-Defense: What It Costs. When It’s Worth It.” Marc MacYoung. 2014.