The Problem With Women's Self-Defense Classes

As a person that truly believes that all of us, regardless of race, sex, creed, or whatever, should be able to defend ourselves I have a huge problem with the way that most female self-defense classes are run.

Let's look at a typical women's self-defense type of a class.

You usually have, let's say 10-30 women and one instructor, and they take turns practicing the movements that they are learning on each other.

So Brett, you might ask, what's you problem with that? After all, it sounds fun and it sounds like a good way to learn, right?

Let me now ask you this, how many women are attacked by other women?

Yes, girl on girl violence does occur. But the majority of assaults directed against women are from men.

Men are bigger, stronger, more powerful, more aggressive and are far less hesitant to use extreme violence then women are.

So, when you are training to defend yourself against a male attack, and all of your training partners are female, are you really training for reality.

It reminds me of an interview that I read with Grace Cassilas Boggs, a truly legendary female martial artist.

In this interview she talked about a reality check that she had. She had just finished up teaching a women's self-defense seminar (with only women involved) and she had come up with a new way to beat a two-hands around your throat strangle. It worked wonders in class, and all of the ladies that were involved were able to make it work against all of the other ladies attacks.

So, Grace decided to show this move to her husband, World Sport Ju-jutsu champion Ernie Boggs. As directed, he grabbed her by the throat with both hands and began choking. And, the move failed miserable against a man's strength.

After that, Grace decided not to use that technique anymore.

The point being, if you are interested in being able to defend yourself against larger, stronger, more powerful and more violent attackers; you need to train with people that are larger, stronger, more powerful and can bring the violence.

Now, go train hard.

Yours in peace,
Brett

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