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“Keep trying to communicate during the fight. The least it will do is clue in the witnesses. This is most important legally when you are winning.” - Rory Miller, Facing Violence

Comment: Communications means “Articulation” and that does a few things. First, it means you are breathing; second, it means you are communicating to the threat as well as witnesses with the hope the message is about you defending as a victim; third, it can be used to support your self-defense stance as a lot of that articulation/communications is to your mind or mind-set allowing your breathing and comments to spur you on toward accomplishing the goal of stopping the threat while remaining within the self-defense square.