Do Womens Self Defense Classes Actually Work?
Women’s self-defense classes can be invaluable for protection, but care must be taken that the self-defense techniques taught are right for the students in question. Because self-defense is an extremely popular topic these days, even those who are not experts in women’s self-defense can be teaching classes. It behooves you, therefore, to find the right training and instructor for you, based upon what you want. First of all, many self-defense techniques taught to men will not work for women, because women are both faced with different situations (i.e., rape) that men are generally not faced with, and they lack the physical brute strength that most men have. In short, women have only about half the brute strength of men (although they often do tend to have greater endurance strength, which is nonetheless unfortunately not often useful in attack situations). Pound for pound, because men have more muscle than women do, they are simply stronger for “short burst” strength situations, such as
