How to Defend Yourself for Women

When you feel physically threatened what should you do? Run? Fight? Try to talk your way out of it? The truth is, it depends on each individual situation, which is where How to Defend Yourself for Women can be a great help.

Offering expert advice on numerous situations from handling an aggressor who’s in your car to encountering an attacker in the street, the book details the options you have and when best to employ each. The book also teaches you how to deflect a blow, punch and kick an opponent and cope with an armed assault, among many other combat scenarios. The book also advises on how to defuse potentially violent situations through stance and dialogue, and how to cope with panicking and adrenalin in hostile situations. This concise guide includes advice on targets and effects; stance and movement; cover defences and deflections; and evasions and counterattacks.

Written in easy-to-understand steps and accompanied by clear illustrations, How to Defend Yourself for Women teaches realistic self-defence techniques that can be learned and applied by anyone.