Serious thought should be put into what you should be looking for when looking for a good, solid, and reliable women's self-defense program. As a general rule, you should first ask for, and verify, the instructor's credentials. This is true regardless of whether you're...
* an adult woman looking to be able to defend herself, or...
* A Parent looking for a self-defense program for your child
This is a very important point, because, like few other things in your life...
... your life could depend on your making the right choice.
The unfortunate truth is that the world is full of people who have just enough knowledge, ability, and judgment, to get by. We all seen it. In fact, you probably know and maybe even work with one or two every day!
I'm not suggesting that someone who's a xxth degree black belt cannot defend himself. But, if gicen the choice, who would you trust with yours or your daughter's life,,,
... an individual who has learned what they know within a paradigm that relies on the rule-laiden environment of a tournament arena - that focuses on winning a trophy or earning a belt, or...
... a person who has a background and actual experience with having to deal with real attacks from real aggressors and had to insure that what they were learning would allow them to survive?
We both know the answer to that, yes?
Other Considerations When Choosing a Self-Defense Program for Girls and Women
What follows is a partial list outlining some of the other factors that are major differences in what men and women each have to deal with in a self-defense situation.
* Cultural Influences - girls have been taught from a very early age that fighting was not "lady-like."
Oh my god! What would people think!
* Situational Self-Defense - rape and sexual assault are two of the biggest differences between the genders when it comes to surviving an attack.
The fact that men are usually dealing with the more obvious situations (muggings and competitive ("oh-yeah! let's go!"-type fighting come to mind). While women, and more and more young girls, are required to deal with subtle tactics like date-rape or being ambushed by a group.
This is complicated with the addition of the strength and size difference between men and women that I talk about. This difference creates and significantly different situation for women, which of course calls for very different defense tactics.
* Misleading or False Information - The majority of people teaching women's self-defense mean well. I believe they are honest and not out to purposely lie to you. I believe it's just that...
... they have no real experience to go on so they do what everyone does when they don't know any better...
... they act on assumptions and ideas that, to them at least, appear to be logical based on their own limited understanding of what a real attack is like.
The contradiction is that we're talking about defensive situations here...
... self-defense for women and teen girls...
... girls self-defense. Not...
... alphabet soup. Where, if you screw up, you can just empty the pot and start again.
A mistake in a women's self-defense situation, in any situation requiring defense against an attack, could be very, very costly indeed.
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