March 15, 2020 / 8th Edition Skill Set Weekly Newsletter Bringing you tips in self defense, firearms, and fitness. As well a schedule of workshops, lectures with guest speakers, educational blogs, and motivational quotes!

This Week's Top Blog Post & Quote of the Week

Can One Strike with Your Fist Kill Someone? The problem occurs when out on the street, during a street fight, a barroom fight, road rage, or neighbors getting heated up to the point where fists are thrown and someone is struck and falls striking their head on the ground. read more! By: John Riddle

Self Defense Tip of the Week

How to Deal with Low Light Attacks Whether it is the early morning hours before sunrise or in the middle of the night under the ambient light of street lights our eyesight is not 100%. It takes time for our eyes to adjust especially after exiting a well lit area or building. Attacks happening at night can be a bit difficult to handle. Trying to see the movement coming from the shadows, between parked cars, can be difficult. What can be harder is seeing what the person has in their hands! Carrying a small tactical flashlight that has high lumens can not only help you see the person but also shinning the light in their face can cause enough temporary blindness to help you escape. Some of these tactical flashlights have an edged metal bezel (rim) around the light portion of the flashlight that you can use to strike if need be. Some Tactical lights are small enough to fit in your pocket. Having a tactical light with you and knowing how to use it at night can possibly save your life.

Riddle Defense Workshops... not your average physical self defense workshops  Our workshops are designed with awareness, assertiveness, verbal confrontation skills, safety strategies, and physical techniques that enable someone to successfully prevent, escape, resist and survive violent assaults. Also providing situational awareness, verbal skills, and the law.

This video demonstrates the physical effects of Pepper Spray. *Students in the pepper spray workshop do not get sprayed. Basic Self Defense Using Pepper Spray Multiply Your Force by attending this 2 hour workshop will not only teach you how to use Pepper Spray, but will also provide useful thoughts & skills to help protect yourself and loved ones. At the end of the workshop each participant will receive a "hot" pepper spray unit 🗓️Saturday, March 28th 🕗2:00PM - 4:00PM Click here to learn more!

Women's Ground Defense Learn what it takes to defend yourself from the ground, in common life threatening situations. This workshop focuses on women's self defense techniques that are used if you have been knocked to the ground and/or an attacker is on top of you. These techniques are designed to help women deal with potentially dangerous situations. Creating realism and adrenal response, self defense techniques will be practiced using full-contact against heavily padded attackers (role players) in a simulation training environment. 🗓️Sunday, April 19th 🕗2:00PM - 5:00PM Click here to learn more!

Firearms Training Tip of the Week

ARMED COUPLES WORKING TOGETHER Do you and your significant other train in firearms? Are you both aware of each other’s abilities to handle the firearm you carry when out and about with each other. Your training should be on an individual basis and then brought together with your significant other as a team.  Part of your training with each other should include having a plan. What will we do WHEN something happens, not if it happens. Make a plan. This is part of team tactics. Just like SWAT Officers work on their individual skills they then need to come together and work as a team. This is where team cohesiveness is made. The more you practice together as a team you will see things come together. Then concentration on the task is clearer.    Private & Small Group Firearm Courses Available! 

Fitness Tip of the Week

Breathing Exercise Reducing Stress Through Deep Breathing Powerful ways to control your mind and body during this stressful time is just as important as regular exercise, clean eating and sleep! Watch this video as Drs. Neda Gould and Dana DiRenzo of John Hopkins School of Medicine walk you through this useful exercise. Deep breathing is an easy relaxation technique that can be practiced anywhere by anyone. Benefits include improved mental health, lung function, and blood pressure.  Private Fitness Training Available!

Facts & Snacks Learning Series

Upcoming Facts & Snacks Lecture: Plant Powered with guest speaker John Torres Eat to Live * Eat to Feel Well * Eat to Perform * Eat for Your Health This week's LECTURE POSTPONED!!! NEW DATE: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Start Time: 7:00 PM / End Time: 8:00 PM Topics: Plant Powered Eating to live, feel well, perform and overall health Location: Riddle Defense Training Facility 1000 NW 1st Ave, Bay #7 Boca Raton, FL 33432 Cost: $10pp / pay at door (cash only) or prepay using the button below

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Upcoming Facts & Snacks Lecture: Civilian Medicine: CPR & Bleeding Control Fundamentals with guest speaker Jaime Vega Junior of Zoticon Solutions Zoticon is a Florida based veteran owned medical training company with a simple motto, "Train Hard - Be Prepared - Stay Alive." These three simple phrases require much more from us than you would think. Every day is a new opportunity to make a difference in not only our lives but those that we love and interact with during the course of a normal day. We have to constantly work on our mental, physical and spiritual selves to ensure that when the time presents itself we can manage the circumstance with the least harm to our bodies, minds, and hearts.  Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 Start Time: 7:00 PM / End Time: 8:00 PM Topics: Civilian Medicine Overview / CPR & Bleeding Control Fundamentals Location: Riddle Defense Training Facility 1000 NW 1st Ave, Bay #7 Boca Raton, FL 33432 Cost: $10pp / pay at door (cash only) or prepay using the button below

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Community Fundraising Event

Everglades Angels Dog Rescue Event to "fight the fight" against dog abandonment at the First Annual Trails 4 Tails 5K Run/Walk  Saturday, May 9, 2020 7:30 AM South County Regional Park in Boca Raton, FL **You will be able to walk or run with or without your pet. 9:00am to 1:00pm the Dogs will be able to participate in obstacle and lure course like activities to demonstrate how much fun a dog can have! There will also be a Dog Kissing booth * Dog Photographer Everglades Angels will be showcasing the adoptable Angel Dogs so they can find their future homes. In addition, there will be live music, merchandise sales, raffles, food trucks and much more! We encourage the community to enjoy a day with their pets full of games, activities, and FUN! Want to Run/Walk with the Riddle Defense Team.... use the sign-up button below. See you out there!!!

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Officer Down Memorial

This edition is dedicated to Officer Tiffany-Victoria Bilon Enriquez Honolulu Police Department, Hawaii killed in the line of duty January 19, 2020 "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." - George Orwell

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