Self-Defense & Attack Stats

Self defense refers to actions taken by a person to defend oneself, one's property or one's home. We practice self defense when we know how to talk our way out of trouble, how to react to trouble and how to physically overcome when in trouble. Self defense is also about how we feel about ourselves because that self image shows itself to other people. If you feel or act confident and assured about yourself either physically or knowledge wise, people will see it and won’t try to take advantage.
Women can and do fight back!
For every rape that is completed thirteen are successfully fought off. The successful defender in real life rarely carries a weapon, but wins through a combination of quick thinking, verbal assertiveness, yelling, and/or some kind of physical resistance: biting, punching and/or kicking. Sometimes other people come to her aid, usually because she makes a loud enough fuss.

Why Self-Defense ?
Look at the numbers. They are real scary:

• One rape or sexual assault occurs every two minutes.
• One violent crime occurs every five seconds in the U.S.
• 172 Women are physically and/or sexually assaulted every hour!
• 261,000 rapes and sexual assaults occurred in the U.S. in 2000.
• 90,186 forcible rapes in 2000 as reported to police.
• In the year 2000, 2.8 % of college women experienced rape in a six month U.S. Department of Justice study.
• 17% of rape or sexual assault victims were victimized by someone they knew!
• One murder occurs every 34 minutes.

Statistics from: National Center for Victims of Crime

Why Wolf pack Self-Defense techniques?

The main problem is that many of the techniques that are taught in traditional women's self defense training are too tricky or too complicated for the average person to properly execute. This is especially true under the duress of an all out street attack.

Techniques that are highly complicated tend not to be executed properly, if at all, when the pressure is on and adrenaline levels are high.

Many of the systems use joint locks and pressure points that require years of training to properly execute. Sometimes even when they are applied properly to someone who has an unusual amount of joint flexibility or a high resistance to pain, they don’t work.

FBI journals indicate that a high percentage of attacks can be avoided using good verbal and practical skills.

A great number of the techniques taught were not designed especially for women. They require too much upper body strength.

Many of the arts teach kicking techniques that are great for the studio or for sport competition, but are all but useless on the street. Unfortunately many of the practitioners of these arts are led to believe that they can really use these kicks effectively in a combat situation. They end up with a false security believing they can defend themselves with such techniques. In reality, if they ever have to really protect themselves, they can get themselves into trouble very quickly.

Many techniques require years of training or are just impossible to learn unless you are under the direct training of the master instructor. You cannot learn these properly from a video, book or seminar. They take years to perfect, even under the supervision of an expert instructor.

We discovered that an effective solution to effective women's self defense must contain the following benefits:

1. It had to address the inevitable "adrenaline dump" which is the natural effect of fear induced aggression.
2. It had to be simple enough to teach students in 30 seconds… instead of years!
3. It had to be effective regardless of the body type of the attacker.
4. It had to be quick, effective and decisive!
5. It had to address real street situations and sexual assault instead of the typical studio environment.
6. It had to teach verbal and physical boundary setting skills as research has shown many physical confrontations can be avoided.
7. It had to contain a minimum amount of techniques. This was necessary as research has shown that as few as a handful of techniques can be recalled when fully "adrenalized".
8. It had to be designed to defeat a much larger and stronger attacker; most women are weaker and have less upper body strength than men!
9. It had to be easy to learn.

Course Content: Level 1 Self-Defense

• Introduction
• Awareness & Philosophy of self-defense
• Verbal Defense
• Warm up
• Stance- Movement – Distance Control
• Multiple attacker control
• “ 30” Second Techniques:
• Breaking points
• Escape Tactics
• Striking & Striking Points
• Key baton tactics
• Locks & holds
• Ground Control
• Review
• Home Safety Review

Course Requirements:

• Loose comfortable clothing
• Notebook & pen

Course Costs:
$ 15.00 per person
100 % of Proceeds will go to Local Charities in need !
(each class picks which charity)

Links

Police Victim Services
policevictimservices.bc.ca

Victims of Violence & Canadian Centre for Missing Children
victimsofviolence.on.ca

Rape Relief & Woman’s Shelter:

rapereliefshelter.bc.ca

British Columbia Government Victim Services:
pssg.gov.bc.ca/victim_services/cva