What is Women's Self Defense?

Women's self defense is a tool box of psychological, verbal, and physical methods that you as a woman can use to defend yourself from physical or verbal harassments that could lead to emotional or physical safety. The emotional safety deals with fear. If you are fearful of someone or a situation, you take away from your daily life activities to avoid that scene. Physical safety could include violations or harm to your body, up to and including rape, molestation, bodily harm, or death. Women's self defense training helps you to set up boundaries in both the physical and verbal world in which you live and work. Tips and tools of women's self defense can let you live, work, and play with more self confidence and the total absence of fear.

An example of emotional safety is when that certain jerk in the office keeps asking you out even though you he knows that you are not interested. Those leering glances or smart remarks are not wanted. He seems to ignore polite requests for him to stop. You start avoiding the department in which he works. You wait until he leaves before you go out to the car or leave work missing hours as you race to the vehicle to avoid him.

You may even take the stairs instead of the elevator just to avoid this harasser. It is not fair for you to adjust your life to avoid something that is wrongly being done to you. Women's self defense will teach you how to verbally confront this person so that he feels uncomfortable and will leave you alone. Tell him loudly enough for other people to hear you, for him to leave you alone or you will report him to human resources. If this does not stop him, then report him.

An example of physical safety is just that. You are being compromised physically and you have to do something to escape harm. Women's defense will teach not how to kick an attackers butt, but will teach you how to fend him off long enough to get away or get help. If you know you are about to be harassed or attack a whistle blasé is enough to scare some attackers away. They see women as an easy target and usually are no afraid. They do fear getting caught or getting arrested. A loud blast from a whistle can cause the attacker to stop or run away.

The last thing they want is to be seen by other people than your self. If the attack is more physical women's self defense will teach you some self defense moves to ward off or disable the attacker long enough to get away or to get help. A simple kick to the groin can leave an attacker disabled and in pain. Women's self defense courses also teach you to use weapons like your purse or umbrella to ward of the would be assailant. Women's self defense courses are cheap and easy attended. Without these skills the violent men of the world are stilling your right to live a free, violent free life.