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Women's Self-Defense Programs - What To Look For In A Good One |
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Jeffrey M. Miller |
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Women's Self-Defense Programs - What to Look For in a Good One
Jeffrey M. Miller
When seeking a quality women's self-defense program, first and foremost, you must ask for and thoroughly check out the instructor's credentials. This is true regardless of whether you're...
* an Adult who wants to be able to handle herself, or...
* A Parent looking for a self-defense program for your child
This, like few other things in your life, is a very important point because...
... a life could depend on your making the right choice.
You and I both know that the world has its fair share of people with barely enough knowledge, skill, and common sense to be doing what they do, let alone teaching anybody else. You prbably know a few of these people yourself. And, believe me, the same holds true when it comes to martial arts and so-called, self-defense experts.
This is not to imply that a black belt, martial arts teacher cannot defend him or herself. But, let me ask you, who would you trust your life to...
... a person who has practiced their skills for use in a game for the purpose of earning a belt or trophy, or...
... someone who has actual life experience in surviving real-world attacks from real-world assailants - someone who had to really make sure that what they were learning would work to save their own life - not in a rule-laden contest with referees to make sure everything was fair?
We both know the answer to that, yes?
Other Things to ConsiderWhen Looking for Girls and Women's Self-Defense
The following is just a partial list of some of the other significant differences between self defense for men and women.
* Cultural Influences - girls have been taught from a very early age that fighting was not "lady-like."
Oh no! What would people think of her!
* Situational Self-Defense Issues - rape and sexual assault are two of the greatest differences between men and women when it comes down to the things they will have to deal with.
The fact that men are usually dealing with the more competitive ("oh-yeah! let's go!"-type of fighting come to mind). Men are usually attacked with the goal of "finishing" the victim in mind. While women, and more often young girls, however, are forced to deal with what we might call subtle tactics like date-rape or being ambushed by a group of young male attackers. Wher men are pummelled, women are typically attacked with the intent to "conquer" or dominate.
Add to this the strength differential discussed earlier, and you have a very different situation, requiring very different self-protection tactics.
* Wrong Information - I think that the majority of instructors teaching self-defense mean well. I don't think that they intentionally try to mislead anyone. It's just that...
... most of these people have no real experience themselves to go on, so they end up doing what everyone else does when they don't know any better...
... they make, what to them are, logical and rational assumptions or look to others who seem to know the answer.
The trouble is that the topic is self-protection here...
... real-world self-defense for women...
... self-defense for teenage girls. Not...
... vegetable soup. Where, if you make a mistake, you can just dump the pot and start over.
A mistake in a women's self-defense situation, in any situation requiring defense against an attack, could be very, very costly indeed.
Before you get one more http://www.warrior-concepts-online.com/womens-self-defense-book.html women's self-defense-book, look on the greon informonion about http://www.warrior-concepts-online.com/womens-self-defense.html self-defense-for-women on Jeff Miller's site. You can also subscribe to his newsletter.
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