NCJ Number
160135
Date Published
1995
Length
0 pages
Annotation
This video explains and demonstrates ways in which women can immobilize and escape from a stronger attacker.
Abstract
The video lists three basic guidelines of self-defense: reinforce your ability to respond; assert your power by startling or temporarily disabling the attacker; and strengthen your opportunity to escape and get help. The defensive techniques explained and demonstrated are specifically designed to help a smaller and weaker person escape from or disable a stronger person. The trainer first identifies the areas of vulnerability in an attacker; they are breathing, pain, and immobilization. Suggestions for disrupting breathing encompass striking the attacker in the center of the body just under the breast bone, striking the attacker in the throat, and hitting the attacker in the nose. Being unable to breathe, the attacker cannot move. Another vulnerability demonstrated in the video is pain. Pain can be inflicted by cupping the hands and moving them with force over the attackers ears to burst the eardrums. Other ways of inflicting pain are to strike a blow to the groin or to the nose. A third area of vulnerability is immobilization. This can be achieved by breaking the collar bone and stretching the elbow, fingers, and knees. The remainder of the video presents various combinations of self-defense techniques when the attacker comes from the front, the rear, or the side. The technique demonstrations are interspersed with comments by actual rape victims and by statements of some myths of self-defense.