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5 Steps to Womens Self Defense

A woman is raped every 46 seconds in the United States. That means that you need to consider womens self defense skills to keep yourself safe. To combat rape and increase your fighting chances, arm yourself with these essential strategies: 1. Recognize when you are being "tested" or "interviewed" and break away immediately. Predators often test a woman's boundaries to gain proximity and size up her defenses. They test you to see how close they can get and then how much closer. Do not enable this progression. Take control and put an end to this as quickly as you ... read more

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A woman is raped every 46 seconds in the United States. That means that you 
need to consider womens self defense skills to keep yourself safe.
To combat rape and increase your fighting chances, arm yourself with these 
essential strategies:
1. Recognize when you are being "tested" or "interviewed" and break away 
immediately. Predators often test a woman's boundaries to gain proximity and 
size up her defenses. They test you to see how close they can get and then how 
much closer. Do not enable this progression. Take control and put an end to this 
as quickly as you can. In some cases, that may mean yelling and running away 
from an attacker. In other cases, it may mean establishing reasonable behavior 
from a coworker or another man you already know.
2. Good womens self defense dictates that you take the first opening you get 
when faced with an attacker. You may not get a second chance. Rape can abruptly 
escalate to a more violent, life-threatening attack. The instant your attacker 
fumbles with clothing, changes positions or shifts his weight, puts down a 
weapon, places his hands on your torso, or prepares to strike or use a 
weapon  attack. Some rapists initially establish dominance or force women 
into harrowing positions. Instead of ineffectually struggling against brute 
strength, relaxing the body can help create explosive opportunity. Going limp 
often makes it easier to spring.
3. Attack vulnerable regions. To commit a rape, an offender's face or groin 
will likely be in your strike zone at some point. Viciously attack whatever he 
sticks out. Womens self defense means you can use dirty tactics: bite, gouge, 
seize-and-squeeze, slam, pound and pummel. Use your hips and legs to get your 
attacker off of you. A woman's legs are her strongest natural weapons but you 
may have to free them first. If an attacker is lying on or straddling your hips, 
plant a foot and heave or buck him off, or trap his lower leg and roll (to aid 
such displacement, simultaneously attack the face). Remember: your goal is to 
facilitate escape, not force him into submission.
4. Never allow yourself to be tied up or taken to a secondary crime scene 
such as forced into a vehicle or dragged behind a building. The statistics are 
grim. At a second, more isolated location, an assailant will have far more 
control over you.   5. Womens self defense experts say never give up. 
Another opening or stroke of luck may present itself. The body is more resilient 
than we think. Plenty of women have been cut or shot but live to tell the story.
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