Womens Self Defence – Women’s Self-Defense – You Don’t Need a Black Belt to Protect Yourself

Ladies, you don’t need a martial arts black belt to protect yourself.  Think about it?  Do you honestly believe that criminals sign up at the local dojo (martial arts school) and go, “Hey Sensei, I want to better terrorize my neighborhood, could you show me some of those great UFC moves?” No, they don’t.  Further, any self respecting sensei wouldn’t allow them in. 

So why don’t you need a black belt?  Because protecting yourself in a self defense situation is very different from learning sport or tournament martial arts.  And yes, most “martial art schools” are sport and/or tournament schools.  Now don’t misunderstand, I think martial arts training is a wonderful path and there are great insights that you learn about yourself.  However, for street self defense and personal protection skills, it is lacking.

Think about your local criminal or thug. They  are amazingly efficient at creating fear and injury.  Why?  Because they understand what frightens you and they understand that violence is quick and lethal.  They don’t hesitate.

If you want to understand how to negate the possibility of a criminal attack, then you need to understand how a criminal operates.  You won’t learn this in your black belt classes.  If you want to negate violence and efficiently and effectively neutralize your attacker in the quickest possible time frame, then you need to understand vital targeting and how to penetrate your opponent creating injury.  You won’t learn this in your black belt classes.  Where will you learn this? Only in one place is it taught –  a reputable women’s self defense program.

By understanding the criminal mindset, how crime triangles work, how to increase your awareness and the personal protection options that are available to you, you will reduce the likelihood of being targeted as a potential victim.

So, although that martial arts black belt may not always protect you, joining a women’s self defense class will increase your self defense options and your safety.

Angie M. Tarighi is the CEO of Women’s Self-Defense Institute, a national leader in educating and training women about their self-defense and personal security options.

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A question for pistol packing WOMEN ONLY about dealing with female attackers.?

I can't believe I'm even asking this, but I've had three different female firearms/self-defense instructors separately tell me the best place to shoot a female attacker is the lower pelvic region. They say it'll cause faster incapacitation than a shot to her chest, because of how our uterus is SO vulnerable & our ovaries are so sensitive to pain. Extreme rapid blood loss & massive shock, yadda, yadda, yadda. They also say self-defense ammo is designed & powered for men and often goes right thru women, without energy transfer, endangering innocent bystanders. Better chance of the bullet stopping inside, downward angle if not.

Just thinking about it makes me queasy, but I don't want any of the local girl gangbangers taking me out, either! I don't doubt what they said for a second. I just don't like the idea, for obvious reasons.

So I want to ask the other pistol-packing WOMEN reading this what their thoughts are.

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If you’ve been keeping up with my blog posts lately you’ll know I’ve come to adding a few news posts from around the web on this subject. I’ve got a couple more today that are new and updated, so let me know what you think of em…

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I was just wondering, because from what I hear, it seems that women's self-defense courses are mainly geared towards teaching them to defend themselves from.

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