What you say during training and practice will be what you say when the adrenal stress-effects are on you after an encounter of self-protection. You can think pretty much what you want but in practice and training you should also practice and train communications in the way best suited to support self-defense claims. Remember, most people remember, self-defense is more of a legal term than what we use it for mostly.
When I read some of the written comments in these types of socially driven blogs or media I cringe a bit because it will be how one expresses themselves after the encounter and when first responders start interviewing/investigating things. One professional said or wrote rather, that an interview can change to investigation by the very comments you make when interviewed.
For instance, you were doing just fine until you said, "I was just defending myself." Then, you just admitted to a crime, it changes the dynamics and the interview just ended, without them having to say a thing to you, and the investigation began. This is why I try to convey that how you articulate things in training and practice will most likely be the very words you use when in the interview by the first responders.
"It was self-defense officer, I broke his ankle then when he hit the ground I made sure he couldn't get up and continue the fight." This is the kind of rhetoric I hear and read all the time in martial arts and karate self-protection; note I don't use self-defense, classes.
What you say in training is like how you practice in training, if encoded to the conditioned response level that is what you will say much like that is how you will act when the event arrives at your doorstep. Communications after the fact when in the interview are just as critical as the type of communications you use to avoid and/or deescalate a dangerous situation that is brewing in the moment.
Talk the talk, when you walk the walk! - Cejames
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