What to Look for in a Reality-Based Women's Self-Defense Program
Jeffrey M. Miller
Anyone truly serious about finding a good, reliable, and quality women's self-defense program should first do everything you can to ask for and check out the course teacher's credentials. This should never be taken lightly and should be done whether you're...
* an adult woman looking to be able to defend herself, or...
* A Parent looking for a self-defense program for your child
This is a very important point, because, like few other things in your life...
... your very life could hang on the choice you make.
The world is full of people with barely enough knowledge, skill, and common sense to get by. You know it because you probably see, interact with, and maybe even work with some of them every day!
I'm not suggesting that someone who's a xxth degree black belt cannot defend himself. But, if gicen the choice, who would you trust with yours or your daughter's life,
... a person who has practiced their skills for use in a game for the purpose of earning a belt or trophy, or...
... an expert who has real-life experience in surviving actual attacks from real-world, brutal attackers - someone who had to make sure that their skills would work under the most difficult conditions?
We both know the answer to that, yes?
Some Other Considerations for a Good Self-Defense Program for Women and Teen Girls
What follows is a partial list outlining some of the other factors that are major differences in what men and women each have to deal with in a self-defense situation.
* Cultural Influences - girls have been taught from a very early age that fighting was not "lady-like."
Oh my god! What would people think!
* Situational Attack-Defense - two of the most obvious differences for women that men generally don't have to worry about are rape and sexual assault.
Where men will generally come up against the more obvious, fight-like attack, women are more often required to deal with what we might call subtle attacks like being "toyed with, or date-rape scenarios.
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 most martial arts and self-defense teachers and instructors mean well. They aren't out to take advantage of you. I think it's just that...
... without real-world experience to guide them, they end up doing what everyone else is doing because they don't know any better...
... they end up making assumptions that, to them, seem logical and right within their own limited perspective and knowledge.
The contradiction is that we're talking about defensive situations here...
... self defense for women...
... reliable self-protection strategies for effective self-defense for women. Not...
... alphabet soup. Where, if you screw up, you can just empty the pot and start again.
Coming at women's self-defense with the wrong skills, or not being prepared for the realities you'll have to deal with, could be the worst - last - mistake you ever make.
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