subject: Self Defense For Women - 9 Effective Hand Defenses [print this page] Not a pretty subject. Not a pretty subject.
I must warn you that some of these moves will appear barbaric...Sometimes you do what you have to do to survive. Ask yourself how hard would you fight to save your life or that of a child! I put it to you that if you are going to defend yourself you should do it effectively.
You must act quickly, strongly and decisively, as most attacks are fast and violent.
Let your hands do the talking.
1. Do not punch with your fists. You could break bones in your hand or wrist, even worse you may hit your attackers teeth and end up with a nasty infection in the joints.
Women tend to have longer nails which prevent you forming a proper fist. You would hurt your hand or break nails. The palm of your hand is very strong. The best target is the nose.
A fast straight thrust to the nose is very painful and will cause your attackers eyes to water. Thus giving you a chance to run of or strike again if you are trapped.
If you hit your attacker with a palm strike quickly follow with another two strikes.
2. The edge of your hand can be trust into the throat, in a pushing away action. A fast action is required and will stop an attacker quickly.
3. If you curl the fist and second joints of your fingers back you can strike with the row of second joints. This is called a Dragons Fist and the target is the throat or the armpits. This is a painful area.
4. Closing your fist but striking with the edge of your hand is a very strong defense. It's called a hammer fist and is best used when failing your arms around. You can not initiate a defence with this attack as it is easy to stop, but is an excellent follow up to the palm strike to the nose. The targets are the nose and temples. The hammer fist is a heavy weapon and even a light person can generate a lot of power with it.
5 Your fingers can rake the face or attack the groin, but the better attack is to gouge the eyes. If your attacker is temporally blinded he can't continue to attack you. Eye gouging while distasteful is highly effective.
6. Using your hand to grab and squeeze the testicles is very effective. Go hard, do not be gentle, your life may depend on it.
7. Using the palms of both hands to slap the ears is effective if you are grabbed around the waist or throat. Use as much force as possible. Generally slapping doesn't have much impact, this is an exception
8. Use your nails to rip and tear any exposed flesh, if nothing else there will be DNA under your finger nails
9. Lastly if your attacker tries to pick you up then wrap your arms around his legs and try to trip him over.
Don't wrestle your attacker
Remember to be screaming all the time. A woman's self defense is different than a man's generally your attacker will try to grab, carry or drag you. Most people would try to pull away, which means that the strongest person will win.
But.. If when you are grabbed you collapse your weight into your attacker and immediately use you hand attacks, you have a good chance of escaping.
by: Ian Newton
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