Situational awareness is an important skill to possess, especially when conceal carrying. Here are some reasons why it's important and tips on improving your situational awareness.

1. Why It’s Important
Situational Awareness

2. What is situational
awareness?

3. • Kids are taught to look both ways before crossing the street.
• Eventually everyone starts driving.
• Part of driving means you need to be aware of what others are doing.
• Situational awareness is knowing what is going on around you at all
times.
What is situational awareness?

4. How to Improve
Situational Awareness

5. • As time moves forward, we begin to abandon our primal instincts.
• A community puts on the mask that everyone is safe and protected.
• Just because we are no longer threatened by wild predators doesn’t mean
we are “safe”.
• How do we maintain our safety?
How to Improve Situational Awareness

6. • Get your face up and look around.
• There are a few things that can hurt your situational awareness
drastically:
• Staring at a tablet or phone
• Having headphones in
• Sight and sound are two very important senses for situational awareness.
Senses

7. • If an assailant can be tasted, smelled, or touched its already too late to do
anything about it.
• At one point in time a man brought a loaded .45 onto a train and had it
out in plain sight.
• Nobody noticed until he started to shoot because they were all looking at
phones and tablets.
Senses

8. • Your senses are a bit different if you feel you are in danger aren’t they?
• You tend to:
• Look around more
• Pay attention to your surroundings
• Gather information about your surroundings
• Analyzing your situation gives you more time to think before you act.
Analyze

9. • Being aware of your surroundings is important when you are carrying.
• Avoiding an interaction where you need to use your weapon is ideal.
• Check out this blog about unarmed assailant situations
• Just because you have a gun doesn’t necessarily mean you have to use in
every situation.
• Awareness also allows you to keep your weapon in your possession.
Awareness and Concealed Carry

10. • You may be wondering, “How can I practice situational awareness?”
• Go out in your backyard and close your eyes.
• Listen to the noises you hear
• Determine what and where
• Training for the eyes is simple. Just make sure that you are always
looking around trying to notice everything.
Practice

11. • Having a good idea about your surroundings can mean all the
difference.
• Being able to notice a possible assailant can help save your life.
• Being prepared is everything and situational awareness will allow just
that.
• Feel free to visit Alien Gear Holsters for additional concealed carry tips
Situation Awareness