5 Tips for Women’s Self Defense: Sexual Assault

Sexual Assault

1. Use initials instead of first names on mailboxes and phone listings.
2. Avoid remaining alone in an apartment laundry room or parking garage where stalkers can hide.
3. Never admit on the telephone or at the door that you are alone. This is an invitation to get raped.
3. It is risky to accept a ride home from someone you have just met. They could be a sexual offender.
4. If you decide to physically resist assault, remember that your goal is to incapacitate the attacker long enough to run to safety and get help.
5. Always carry a self defense product such as small handgun (if licensed CHL), knife, Mace, pepper spray, stun gun or a TASER.

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5 Tips for Women’s Self Defense: Robbery

Robbery

1. Avoid carrying valuable items or large amounts of money.
2. Always think ahead. For example, when traveling at night, have your keys ready to enter the house or to start the car.
3. If you are confronted by a robber, the best advice is to cooperate.
4. Never let someone take you to another location.
5. If you must resist, attack with devastating strikes to soft targets (eyes, face, throat, groin) with one purpose, getting away as soon as possible.

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4 Tips for Women’s Self Defense : ATM Machine

Bank Machines

1. When using an automatic bank teller, always be watchful of any suspicious people around you.
2. The chances of being robbed at night are much greater, especially if you are alone.
3. If you find someone waiting and watching outside in the area of an ATM machine, do not use it. Leave the area and report the incident to the police immediately. You could save someone else from being a victim of crime.
4. Always carry a self defense product such as small handgun (if licensed CHL), knife, Mace, pepper spray, stun gun or a TASER.

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7 tips for Women’s Self Defense: Street Safety

Street Safety – Use Common Sense

1. Stay in well-lighted, busy areas. Avoid walking alone and avoid known trouble spots.
2. When you carry a purse, hold it close to your body rather than by the handles. Do not wrap purse straps around your wrist, because you can get hurt in a struggle.
3. Carry only what you need in a purse or wallet, not everything you have.
4. Avoid using shortcuts through dark alleys, fields, or vacant lots.
5. If you think you’re being followed, cross the street and change directions a few times. Go quickly to a well-lighted place with lots of people. Do not go home. You don’t want an attacker to know where you live.
6. Always carry a self defense product such as small handgun (if licensed CHL), knife, Mace, pepper spray, stun gun or a TASER and personal alarms are an excellent choice for preventing crime.
7. Keep your eyes peeled and be prepared by learning reality based self defense such as Krav Maga.

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Intro to Krav Maga Self Defense Seminar 9/17/11

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“Never, ever, ever delegate responsibility for your own safety.”Rory Miller

Krav Maga and Ground Fighting

One of the common questions regarding Krav Maga is if we do any type of ground work or Jiu Jitsu.  Krav Maga’s principle on the ground is this. GET OFF THE GROUND AS QUICK AS YOU CAN!  Because of the dynamic nature of a fight and its enviroment, we believe it is too dangrous to stay on the ground especially with others around that can possibly attack you while you are trying to choke someone out.

With that said, we do train and learn grappling techniques with a hybrid of Wrestling and Jiu Jitsu.  We focus on gaining positive control of our attacker and positioning to put us in a better position to escape, strike, or perform submissions (in that order).  As in all classes when working an attack,  submission, or position change we teach the defense to that offensive technique.