Women Self Defense

Purse snatching is a crime of opportunity. You can eliminate that opportunity. Every female carrying a purse is a potential target. Senior citizens are especially susceptible to these criminals since they may not be readily able to defend themselves and pursue their assailants.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Purse snatching is a crime that can be easily prevented when you take away the opportunity from the thief. Most purse snatchers are juveniles under the age of 18, who are waiting for the next opportunity. When you hide the “prize” you protect yourself!

Suppose you are going shopping and waiting for the bus. You are by yourself and your purse is exposed and in open view. You already made two mistakes – you’re alone and your purse is vulnerable. Frankly, woman personal safety might depend on NOT clinging to that purse, even though it seems a normal way to protect the contents. Grabbing and shoving that may take place can result in being injured. There are ways to protect yourself, however.

AVOID SHOPPING ALONE – SHOP WITH A FRIEND, TRAVEL TOGETHER

The first precaution you can take is to go shopping with a friend – man or women. You’re safer when in the company of someone else. If you must be out at night alone, stay in well-lighted areas. Walk close to street lights, staying well away from dark corners, alleys and building entrances.

HOW TO OUTSMART THE PURSE SNATCHER ­?

When carrying a purse, women should have little money placed inside. Credit cards, currency, driver’s license, keys and jewelry should be carried in a coat or sweater pocket, or concealed on your person to reduce the opportunity of large losses. If you carry a purse, don’t wrap the strap around your shoulder, neck or wrist. If your purse is grabbed, a strong strap will not yield easily and you may be injured. Some purse snatch victims have been thrown down and have received concussions and broken bones. Never carry anything more valuable than you can afford to lose. Always leave all unnecessary credit cards at home. When you shop and carry a purse, place it in your shopping bag. Never leave your purse on a store counter or in a grocery shopping cart – even for a moment.

DON’T CARRY WEAPONS THAT CAN BE USED AGAINST YOU ­

Women should carry a police whistle and a small flashlight on their key chain where they’re readily available. Make a habit to carry your key chain in a pocket – NOT in your purse. More importantly, women should never put their name and address on their house keys or car keys. This is a simple way of telling the thief  who you are and where you live.

CALL THE POLICE  IMMEDIATELY –

Most victims are attacked from behind. They don’t get a good look at the attacker. And when ajuvenile gets away with it once, he’ll try it again. If attacked, call the police immediately. Try to remember all details – help your police to help you!

In short, women should always be alert at all time, be sensitive with the surrounding they are in, avoid get into any ‘potential dangerous situation’ whenever possible. Precaution and prevention is always the best women self defense tips.

Posted by Megan in Women Self Defense Tips

Ladies Drivers, Beware of Any People Hanging Around Your House!!

Remote gate has been gaining its popularity nowadays due to convenient especially in bad weather like heavy rain and safety issues. However, recently there are incidences reported that challenged the safety issues of remote control  gate.

Morale effendi of the reported incidents:

A woman residing in a new housing area was unable to open her home remote-controlled gate because someone tied her gate. The woman thought her remote control was faulty. She came down from her car to check what happened. Suddenly two criminals pushed her and attacked her from behind, snatched her handbag and valuable jewellery.

The woman was hurt and hospitalized. Apparently, these two criminals have planned this attack by tiding-up remote-control gate and waited to strike.

Besides, there were also incidents that the criminals quietly snaked in closely behind while the car was driving and parking in the porch. The criminals attacked the women drivers from behind once the women get down from their car.

Ladies, women have to be alert and be cautious about their surroundings, watch-out for any strangers around. It is always a good safety measure and practice to look around and check for any stranger behind their car before getting down from the car.

Another safety tip is to install a small rear view mirror so as to easily have a clear view of the back of the car, i.e. anyone hiding behind the car.

Women have to take control of their own personal safety at all time by taking extra safety tools and precaution measures.

Always remember, alertness is KEY and knowledge is POWER.

Posted by Megan in Personal Safety and Self Defense Tips

In this article, let’s discuss the psychological aspect of a street fighting.

In street fighting, we should differentiate two items:

(1) We must realize, whether the fight is a result of a usual domestic conflict, or

(2) We are attacked by a robber, killer or bandit.

Our actions will flow depending on these two circumstances.

If it is an everyday domestic conflict that happens in the street (someone pushed you or your leg, disturbed the queue order etc.), we should not use your fighting knowledge and skills to put your opponent out of action.

As a rule, all these conflicts occur because of trifles, and you need to behave normally in this case, let’s say naturally. When this conflict happens, no one wants to fight actually, but just gets rid of the negative energy that was accumulated.

Those who express harshly their negative reaction are not dangerous at all in most cases. He will threaten you, make expressive gestures, grab you with iron fingers but nothing more will happen. This is nothing but the pose which does not contain real threat at all. However, there are exceptions in this case too. We must define at once who is dangerous and who is not.

Although laws and principles of a hand-to-hand fighting are the same, a sports battle in a gym differs greatly from that one happened in the street. If we are calm when fight in a sports gym and don’t worry about fatal injury, we will be extremely nervous when come across our real enemy in the street. You won’t fight according to rule (as you do in the sports gym), you need to act most quickly and cruelly sometimes for your effective self defense.

The psychological aspect plays a very important role in the street scuffle. We must prevent our enemy’s attack or take the lead over him. Therefore, it is advisable not to start fighting if we see we can avoid it. This is especially beneficial safety, street smarts tips for women. In fact, this is the most basic simple women self defense tips.

If we cannot do that and we know we will be attacked inevitably, we should act quickly, harshly and be the first with attack actions. Lots of things depend on who starts the battle first. This is the main distinction of a street fight. When we train in the sports gym, it is not important at all who will attack first. Both fighters are ready to attack and defense.

It is not the same thing in the street fight. Opponents rarely stand at the certain stances (as in the sport gym) and are situated in close distance quite often. In other words, they are in the hitting zone of each other. Hence, a person who starts his attack first has a huge advantage. Attack here means just the most harsh and strong action and not the expressive gestures at usual domestic conflict.

Real fight happens when your enemy or enemies are certain in their superiority over you. For example, it may be numerical advantage, force advantage or armament advantage.

Therefore, it is strongly recommended: try to avoid street fight at any cost. If you see you are about to be attacked, you need to act most quickly and harshly. We must always remember that if our enemy is eager to fight with us, he is sure in his superiority. If he is alone and is not too strong or high, but still wants to fight, it means most likely that he is either armed with the weapon or instructed of some martial art.

In short, run away, avoid a street fight whenever possible. However, if the fight is unavoidable, act fast and harshly to gain advantage.

Posted by Megan in Personal Safety and Self Defense Tips