Rebecca Brayton: Women are attacked more often and more violently than any other group. Hi, I am Rebecca Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com. And today George Manoli will be showing me how to fight back, as a woman, what should we consider to avoid being attacked.
George Manoli: It’s only the message you send out while you’re walking, somebody who is aware of their surroundings, knowing where they are going in comparison to somebody who looks lost, who looks like an easy target, because don’t forget self-defense is only not all physical, a majority of it is attitude.
Rebecca Brayton: How realistic is it to consider that a woman can defend herself against a man who is presumably bigger than her?
George Manoli: Everybody, no matter who you are, how small, how weak each one of has this volcano in us. If you are in a mindset where you mess with me, you’re going to pay a prize, it really makes no difference your size, your strength.
Rebecca Brayton: Can you just outline some common scenarios that a woman might in encounter and that you might teach in a self-defense course?
George Manoli: We have scenarios where we actually go on a date rate where I try to force myself upon them. Then we do stuff like the majority of time, standing up the guy that actually wants to bring you into his car. Then we do stuff on the ground where we’re standing brought to the floor and what to do when the guy has you underground, trying to spread the legs. Then we also take the students outside. Because you know fighting in a sweatsuit is wonderful but what happens if you have court on, and gloves and boots. So, we try to make it as around the person’s natural environment as possible in a course setting. So, we’re going to have the honor and pleasure of attacking you, that should be lots of fun. You need to consider several things. Number one is once you decide to go, you got to go. You can’t tipped and then say; I am so sorry, let’s go for coffee. Also when you’re hitting, you need to yell no, no.
Rebecca Brayton: No, no.
George Manoli: Beautiful, because yelling of course is going to attack attention but most importantly it’s going to oblige you to breath. Next, when you decide to hit, hit areas that are going to hurt subito pronto. We want to go around here and we want to go around here. So, the first thing we’re going to try, very simple technique using the open hand, okay so, using the heel in a hand, we’re going to go from the shoulder out towards a person’s nose.
Rebecca Brayton: No, no.
George Manoli: Good, second one that we’re going to go for is the family jewels. Now here we’re going to be using the muscle above the knee.
Rebecca Brayton: No, no.
George Manoli: Third one we’re going to show is known as an icepick. So, now what you’re going to do is your elbow is going to go up to the sky, you’re going to make a fist, and you’re going to come down on the person’s nose.
Rebecca Brayton: No, no.
George Manoli: Good. So the fourth technique we’re going to be learning is more applicable on the body on body kind a situation or as soon as you have a hand that’s free. This is known as a testicle crush, it’s a very effective technique because as soon as you have a free hand, boom we go for the two scoops of raisins. One, two strikes, then we grab, squash, twist and pull. So, if I was to practice with you, you will be taking the hand here. So, it would be one, two, are you okay, three grab squash and upwards in this fashion here would be the way to apply this technique
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