Best Self Defense Techniques

One, you know that you cannot be there for them 24 hours a day. They go to school, go out with friends, head on to summer camps–these activities usually do not require your presence. You will feel a lot more comfortable if they know how to defend themselves or become proactive during crisis.

Second, children are much prone to bullies, who are usually the biggest they will ever meet in their lives. Unless they are taught the basics of protecting themselves, they will always feel threatened and running for their dear lives.

What Should They Do?

The best way to teach them self-defense techniques is to enroll them in classes. There are various studios that teach karate, taekwondo, and other martial arts, which teach your kiddos the fundamental moves as well as discipline and presence of mind.

However, as a parent, you can also impart your own teaching even if you do not have any excellent background when it comes to self-defense.

First, you can teach your kids how to become more aware with their surroundings–that they should not take anything for granted. For example, the children may not really mind the foul words of a bully until they start pouncing on the young ones.

If they will become more conscious of the environment and the circumstances as early as possible, they could already detach themselves from the bully’s presence and report such cases to authorities, such as school administrators and parents.

Always stress the importance of not talking to strangers unless they are the authorities. Teach them how to respond to personal questions such as their name, address, and telephone number. You may keep yourself abreast with the latest modus operandi of stalkers, kidnappers, and other criminals in your locality. Do not forget to give them emergency number list that they can always call whenever they find themselves in a much bigger trouble.

Instruct them to never separate themselves from the group. There will always be strength in numbers, especially if you want them to not be prone to accidents and crimes. You may want to let them take the school bus ride rather than let them walk or run a bike.

It is also important as a parent to get to know their friends and to teach them how to properly judge schoolmates and other people. Not all suspicious individuals are inherently bad, but you may want to make yourself extra guarded than be sorry later.

The children should know how to hit the right spots should people become aggressive to them. For instance, if a huge man starts to pull them away, they may want to kick the groin, step on the toes, bite the hand, poke the eyes, or pinch the nose hard until they can remove themselves from the tight grip and run as fast as they can.

Play out some scenes. Children love to role play, so you can use that to further help them remember the self defense techniques that you have just taught them.

Your safety is threatened every day you walk out of the door and into the streets. As you drive through the highways your life is in danger. These days, even as you lay your head on a pillow, remember that you are still in danger of a malicious attack. The possible victim of mugging, robbery, rape etc is not just the next guy. You too can be a victim and you never know when the devil will strike.

That realization ought not to scare you, but rather to propel you to taking some action towards safeguarding your life. One way of doing this is to learn and exercise the best self defense techniques on offer. These are the skills that will make you come out of an attack safely. In the face of an attack these defense techniques easily turn you from a victim to a defensive aggressor. Even if you get injured in the process you can easily rescue your life from the attackers reach. You need to regularly attend some martial arts lessons where you can learn such techniques and be physically capable to cope with trouble.

When you find yourself in an attack, either on the street or in a secluded place, time your moment of attack so that it has the benefit of surprise. Defense is not always an all out confrontation. React with speed and without hesitation. It would be better if you start off with an eye gouge. As long as you are very close to your attacker, the eye gouge is among the best and easiest self defense techniques. You simply thrust your fingers deep inside the eye sockets and the attacker looses out on sight control. The pain will definitely disorient him or her enough to give you room to rush to safety. If possible and within safe limits, you can proceed to fully and wholly incapacitate the attacker with other techniques.

One of the easiest but most cruel self defense techniques is finger breaking. When you are not in a position to do anything else but your hands are hanging free, take a grasp of two or one of your attacker’s fingers and swiftly crack them up like sticks. Don’t let go until you hear the bones shatter. You must be swift and fast before the attacker realizes. Let the bones splinter before he or she can feel pain. Not only will that throw the attacker off balance, but it will rob him or her of the use of one hand.

For male attackers, the groin crush will always be the most effective of all self defense techniques. Sometimes it works on female attackers too, as long as you pack it with power. The groin is a highly sensitive part and ramming a foot or knee right in the middle will cause a ripping effect to the whole body. It’s either your life or his and you must therefore detach emotions of pity and mercy from the action.

These are just but examples of what self defense entails. You can get more styles and techniques for self defense by simply by doing research online, reading books and magazines based on the same subject. Attending classes will enable you realize how practical the techniques are.

Self Defense Techniques are, for the most part, very basic natural movements. If we can distinguish martial arts techniques from self defense in any way, it’s in the selection of relevant techniques. Martial arts training is incredibly vast and designed to prepare the dedicated practitioner for freedom of thought and movement in all walks of life, including self defense.

Self defense training on the other hand is quite narrow, and focuses on very basic movements that will suffice in the majority of situations. Techniques should be matched to specific functions, each movement designed to break down the opponent with as little effort as possible. They should also be techniques that require little training and little technique to be effective, as the fight or flight response that spikes during situations of extreme stress pretty much makes all fine motor skills impossible.

When your heart rate is beating above 140 beats per minute and your blood is rushing from your brain to fuel your muscles for action, you’re not in a position execute complicated or precise techniques. You are only able to execute techniques that use gross motor movements. So in narrowing down our essential self defense techniques we know we need those with power, speed, and simplicity.

In this post we’ll cover what I believe are the 5 essential self defense techniques using the arms. When I teach these techniques to beginners they can usually perform all five of them well enough the first night so as to have the tools they need to defend themselves. Naturally, the other elements of fighting like perception, reaction, and timing have yet to be developed, but the basic self defense techniques can be learned well enough in one night so as to be applicable in a real life situation.

The first of the five best self defense techniques is an eye scrape or finger spear. This is a very simple technique, comprised of a simple flick of the arms and fanning of the fingers into an adversaries eyes. This is not a three stooges two finger eye poke, though that may work too, it’s a very quick finger flick just trying to touch the eyeballs. When the eyeballs are touched the eyelids close and the eyes water making it difficult for that person to see for a few seconds. With this time you can take the upper hand.

The second of the five best self defense techniques is a palm heal strike. This can be delivered to the attacker’s nose if you are about the same height or to his chin in an upward motion if he is taller. A strike to the nose will also cause the eyes to water. A strike to the chin will push the head back and force the attacker to stumble back on his heels. This strike can be delivered repeatedly until the aggressor has given up.

The third of the five best self defense techniques is an elbow strike to the side of the nose, eye socket, the temple, the ear, the cheek bone, or the side of the neck. In truth, this tool is so powerful it doesn’t require the same accuracy as the two above in order to be effective. This strike, made popular by Thai boxing, uses the entire body to deliver one of the most powerful strikes the human body is capable of. And the elbow is a strong and durable tool, unlikely to break on impact.

The fourth of the five best self defense techniques is an ear box. This again is not delivered with two hands as in the old kung fu films. It’s delivered with one hand in a very direct circular motion. What I mean by direct and circular is this technique does not need to come from a guard. It can come directly from a relaxed standing position to the attacker’s ear. If performed with a relaxed and lightly cupped hand this will force air into the attacker’s ear, and when the compression is released the eardrum will explode. The ear is also the source of our equilibrium, so when the ear is attacked, a persons balance is shaken. Don’t try this at home.

The fifth of the five best self defense techniques is a strike to the groin with the forearm.
This is a very broad swinging motion, where the fist either swings straight up between the opponent’s legs, or circles behind your back in a big motion and then circles upward between the attacker’s legs. This needs little explanation because we all know what happens when someone gets hit in the balls. This should be delivered with the part of the forearm just above the wrist and should be driven up as if trying to swing all the way up to the head.

These five self defense techniques are really all one needs to effectively defend themselves, assuming they have reached a level of competency with them so as to be able to connect with proper targets and use them in combination without too much forethought. Training beyond this point adds a great deal of sophistication to ones arsenal, but you should never stray too far from the basics. These techniques come first but that doesn’t make them any less valuable. Each one of them is devastating and together these self defense techniques provide a complete system to break down an adversary by capitalizing on his natural weaknesses.