About the PRS course
Streetwise training for everyday life
At PRS we prepare our students to face the world with self-confidence.
This involves raising awareness with respect to their personal safety through the use of mental and verbal training. We teach the importance of reporting threats, raising the alarm, and taking precautions, alongside the ability to identify assailants and discern which situations require action.
When it comes to unavoidable conflict, the ‘fight’ or ‘flight’ psychological reactions are well- documented. However, there is a third natural reaction in which those unprepared or inexperienced simply ‘freeze’. Without moving, calling for help or attempting to defend themselves, in many scenarios this reaction can prove to be injurious. We teach how to fight the ‘freeze’, keeping kids safe regardless of the scenario.
Making self-defence second nature
Ensuring an instinctive response to potentially threatening situations is key for kids’ safety, which is why repetition plays a crucial role in our courses.
By repeatedly practicing effective reactions to grabs, holds, strikes, and other physical or verbal threats, the training we provide instils conditioned reflexes in our students that work as an automatic means of self-preservation.
Each hypothetical scenario is initially demonstrated in real-time, before being broken down step-by-step, with each move explained and explored in detail. These situation-responsive techniques are then practised until perfected.
Effective self-defence is an essential element of any fully rounded education for today’s young people; our instructors at PRS deliver it.
Self-defence and the law
Naturally, when it comes to self- defence and the law, there is a lot to take into account.
Our students are taught how Common Law and the Criminal Law Act of 1967 interact to imbue them with a full understanding of what is permissible under law to defend themselves fully in any given scenario. By exploring a range of hypothetical situations, we teach the principles of ‘Necessity and Proportionality’ in relation to the existing laws, so that by the end of the course students will have a clear understanding of their absolute rights when defending themselves and others.