Self Defense For Families

The Best Self Defense:

• avoid the situation
• use common sense
• stay aware of surroundings
• keep you distance from possible trouble
• form neighborhood watches – police help set up 

Home:

• lock doors and windows
• outdoor lights
• fences
• shrubbery trimmed and away from windows
• dog–best deterrent and alarm
• alarm and /or just stickers
• don’t leave key near doors in obvious place
• cellular phone
• safe room

 

Car and Car Jacking:

• lock and park in lighted area
• look around and underneath as approaching
• lock after inside
• run over attacker
• leave room to maneuver car
• equipment – cellular phone, pepper spray, club, knife, gun

Elevator:

• get off (or on) if other people look like trouble
• don’t take stairways unless with someone else
• be prepared in case there is trouble
• carry kubotan, pepper spray, etc so bad guys can see it and you will have it ready

 

Airport Security:

bad guys know your unarmed

 

Legal issue afterwards:

• Home: in or outside of house
• Neutral area: could you have gotten away?
• Do you want to call the police? bad guy or family may bother you later.
• You need to think about whether or not you will fight for your life if situation happens. If you would for your child, you should do it for yourself
• Most people are better off resisting. That will be your decision. Maybe it’s only a robbery. Let them have what they want, but if it escalates, then do what must be done.

 

There are no rules on street survival!

 

Targets: eyes, throat, neck, groin, ear drum, kidney Less dangerous: knee, joints (wrist, elbow, etc.) ribs, fingers, shin, instep

 

Weapons:

• Common objects–end of comb, hairspray, keys, umbrella, cane
• Special–kubaton, mace, knives, guns
• Body–fingernails, fingertip & thumb in eye, knife edge of hand, knuckles, knee, foot

 

Physical Practice

 

Hand and arm:

• palm strike–front stance
• knife hand strike
• elbow–may use up, down, across or back

 

Leg and foot:

• upward kick–toes pointed: strike instep and or shin, groin or stomach
• heel
• stomp to foot, shin , knee
• side and step kick to stomach or below
• inward stomp to knee

 

Wrist Grab:

• one hand
• two on one
• two at a time

 

Lapel Grab

• one hand:
• two hand:

 

Shoulder Grab

• one hand from  the side
• two hands from the front
• one hand from the back
• two hands from the back

 

Hair Grab

 

Choking

• front
• back:

 

Bear Hug (front and back)

• arms free
• arms pinned

 

Ground fighting

 

Opponent on top

 

Hand shake

 

Weapons

 

Defense against:

• Knife
• Gun
• Club

 

Offense:

• Knife
• Stick or club
• Kubaton
• Hairbrush

 

Recommended targets

The following matrix gives the preferred or high payoff targets for each body weapon and the probable results.

Weapon	Targets	Results
Fist	Eyes	Temporary blindness, watering
	Nose	Shock, impaired breathing, bleeding
	Chin (never hit mouth directly,	Unconsciousness, teeth and tongue damage
	teeth cut)
	Throat	Death from strangulation
	Solar plexus	Arrests breathing temporarily
	Armpit	Temporary numbing of arm
	Short ribs	Pain, arrests breathing
	Kidney	Pain, shock, internal bleeding
	Groin	Pain, shock, incapacitation
Backfist	Cheek bones	Pain to facial nerves affects eyes
	Nose	Bleeding, shock, impaired breathing
	Short ribs	Pain, bends opponent over
Hammerfist	Nose	Pain, bleeding, shock, impaired breathing
	Cheek bones	Pain to facial nerves
	Collarbones	Broken bone/incapacitated arm, nausea
	Forearm nerve point	Grip release
	Calf or ankle (when blocking a kick)	Intense pain, cramping
Knife hand	Throat	Death by strangulation
	Side of neck just under the ear	Possible death, unconsciousness
	Side of neck over the carotid region	Stun, possible unconsciousness
	Back of neck at top of vertebrae	Possible death, unconsciousness
	Inner side of wrist	Release of grip
	Collarbone	Incapacitation of the arm, nausea
Ridge hand	Bridge over nose	Stun
	Under the septum	Intense, eye-watering pain
	Throat	Death by strangulation
	Groin	Pain, shock, incapacitation
Palm strike	Under the tip of the nose	Intense pain, bleeding, impaired breathing
	Up under the chin	Unconsciousness, broken jaw,
		possible broken neck
	Top vertebrae in back of neck	Unconsciousness
	Heart	Stun, disrupted breathing
	Solar plexus	Arrested breathing
	Bladder	Possible long-term death because of
		internal infection
	Kidneys	Shock, internal bleeding
Two-finger strike	Eyes	Blindness, temporary
Supported finger strike	Eyes	Blindness, death if driven through eye sockets in brain
	Septum under the rinse	Intense pain
	Throat	Choking