Planning preparation practice applies to training in actions on tactics and skills employments.

Anti-and counter skills through prior planning and preparation are very important in relation to self protection as well as close protection.

Doing your research and recce’s of places you will visit and avoiding danger and risk areas is a means of anti-encounter  hard targeting yourself.

Some places during business hours can be very safe but during the night when they change to being bar and nightclub areas the risk can increase.

Practising your tactics and skills to ensure they provide the capabilities to deal with expected and common threat is proactive and ensures you are ready in the event that you are faced with a violent threat.

It is all too late in an actions on encounter to realise you are not capable of neutralising the threat or that your skills do not provide the required capability.

Plan practice and prepare for wide ranging threats and situations by the primary means of anti-encounter tactics and also threat neutralisation by combative means if there is no out option available to you.

Planning preparation practice to avoid pretty poor performance.