Lauren Taylor: Hi, my name is Lauren Taylor and today we are learning about self-defense. We've just looked at places you can hit on the person and things you can use on your body to hit with. Now we are going to talk about how to put those together if you are attacked standing up. Couple of general principles that we have talked about, one is you are looking for what is available on them to hit and what's available on you to hit with. So, there is no magic formula. You just have to look what's opened, where I can get to.
The other thing is that in addition to the hit, we are going to add a couple of things, one is always yell; Yelling makes you stronger, could bring attention, could scare them away, reinforces your message, there is a whole lot of things keeps you breathing. So, you want to always yell and the other thing is when you are done, teach yourself to run to safety. Don't you stand there and go, "Oh, my Gosh what just happened" but think about at the end I am always going to run away.
So, with Sarah playing the attacker role, we are going to put those together in a few scenarios. Okay, first thing I do I grab onto her and I yell now, No, no, no, no, no. Those were some few things that you saw earlier, I went to her eyes, I went to her nose, I went to her groin, I kicked her knee and then I ran away. Probably that's more than you would ever need in situation but better to be over trained than under-trained. If it is some kind of a back-attack, no, no, no, no, no, no, again, what did I do, I grabbed her testicles with my hand, I elbowed her, I stamped on her foot. A stamp is a great technique because it does not take a lot of strength; all you really need to do is use your weight. In both of those situations, what I did was run away.
If you practice, it is best thing to do. Don't worry about the speed, just think about yelling hard, yelling loudly and finding the openings. So that's some of how would you deal with the standing attack. Next, we are going to talk about putting it altogether.
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