ESSAY PUBLISHED BY EMORY UNIVERSITY
By- Lorne Coleman
ESCAPE Women's Self Defense and Empowerment Programs
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THE TRUTH AND LIES ABOUT WOMEN'S SELF DEFENSE
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Hi, my wife has recently started a nursing degree at Manchester Uni, which will eventually involve shift work (late nights), working at health centres in "dodgy" areas, and potentially comin...
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I thought that grabbing an opponent by the clavicle was just a myth until I found out that it's forbidden in some disciplines. It sounds like a really vicious thing to do to someone, so I thought I sh...
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This happened a couple weeks ago: a neighbor couple, who live on the second floor of the next building over, (I live on the ground floor of my building), were screaming at each other so loudly & ...
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Im having pink full face leather head gear and gloves made ( probably not leather for gloves).
It will take awhile for the order to get done ( maybe 2 months), and still not exactly sure what the ...
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ok, i want to join the wrestling team at my school. The only problem is that I would be the only girl on the team. I didnt think that this would be a problem untill today when I tried to talk to the...
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Perhaps these true life accounts that we post here will show women how important it is to be more aware of situations portrayed and to show the importance of having a plan of action to survive such at...
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I just thought I'd post a true story about one of those 2 hour RBSD courses.
Around 4 years ago, an email went around my work place about a 2 hour womens self defense course. The email contained ...
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Now that I have everyone's attention
There have been several threads which have touched on this lately, and its a big enough topic that I thought it deserved its own thread. I posted it in the...
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i just got my blue belt nd it iz required that i learn a weapon. im not sure wich one 2 choose. i am 5'5", i have short arms, pretty long legs, and not much upper body strength. wut wuld u sug...
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i wuz testing yesterday for my blue belt and during the grappling portion i got pinned. i tried to get out for awhile wen my sensai said in the backround if i can't get out of the pin then i automati...
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Hi everyone! Does anyone have any suggestions on what might be a good kind of martial arts for a 14-year-old girl? Right now I'm looking into Wing Chun but I'm still not quite sure what I want to do. ...
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One woman's highly emotive account of a rape attack and her pioneering actions to remove the social stigma associated with such a heinous crime.
Bridget Kelly
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Here is a list of what I have found to be some of the Top Ten Threads for the Women's Self Defense Forum, .... aside from the already "stickied" Guidelines for Choosing a Self Defense Course...
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he taught the women how to use things around them for weapons. He showed the girls how to spray hairspray from their purse into the eyes of attackers and how to rake the eyes using a comb from their p...
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So a new guy shows up for BJJ today. He rolls with my mom who's been doing GJJ for about 2 months.
She taps him out three times (one due to exhaustion).
Now this guy is far from hercules...
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Hi all,
Those who are experienced please submit basic and practical advice that can be easily digested and practiced by women reading this.
Ill start:
If you are grabbed from behind, rotate...
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The answer to this question is probably obvious, but I'd like to get a range of opinions.
1) Train for the worst case scenario, then anything less than that will be easy.
2) Train for what...
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Okay, I'm going to try this again from a different angle. I didn't get many responses last time and I'm still kind of trying to figure out where to go with this subject. I have to write an essay abo...
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Hi all! I just signed up today and am so excited to have found such a supportive community. I would appreciate any advice you may have on this:
I have been studying Kung Fu for about 5 months now...
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Found this by John_C on FightingArts...
http://edinoborstva.ru/video/bezo_seminar.mpg
The only way I could get it to work was to right click then save target as.
Is this how we should ...
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In response to the Fending off a sexual assualt thread how do you advise people to defend against grabs, be they simple wrist/arm grabs to more serious rear chokes?
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What would you regard as the most important things you have learned/used in self defense/protection?
I'll guess that the majority will say "awareness" in some way (including me), but...
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What is GHB Gamma hydroxybutyrate) ?
The majority of GHB users are young adults, between ages 18 and 25, and they are now mainly using the drug to produce feelings of euphoria while they are...
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