Self-Defense Equipment & Safety Tips for Women

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Middleton began her self-defense journey by training in martial arts. If you are caught in a situation where a person grabs you from the back and you are close enough to use to your elbow, use it. Sometimes our conversations would involve what was going on around me.

Know how to use it. Make time to train. They have to fit.

Essential Tips For Women’s Self-Defense

Use these basic safety tips to help save your own life. There are a million ways to defend yourself. There are a million people telling you how to do it. However, our main priority is to make sure we and the children are safe — everything else is secondary. Note: There was a comment on social media a while back that this article was condescending to women because it put the burden of protection on them, instead of on the person causing the harm. So I assume he meant that it was okay for me to not pay attention to what I was doing when I walk out of a store and bury my head in my cell phone and just walk into traffic because the burden to keep me safe is on the driver, not me. Sorry — but I would never want to put that burden on another individual when I can keep myself safe by looking up and paying attention to what is around me. And in a perfect world, no one would ever want to harm another individual. YOU must take responsibility to be as safe for yourself and your children as you can be. When you walk into a room, look to your left and right to see who is lingering at the door, find your exits, look to see who is there. Get Off Your Phone Is that phone call or text to your best friend about the Walmart chick you saw wearing nude colored leggings REALLY as important as your safety? Not only are you able to be aware of your surroundings by any human threat, but you can pay attention to the traffic around you and not get run over. Quick Tip 1 — It may seem like a complete antithesis of 2, but having a phone to call for help is a must in our day and age. Tell someone where you are going and where you are. Not only are you going to lose your cash and your credit cards if someone grabs your purse, but your personal safety is at risk because they now have your home address. And if not them, someone they know looking for an easy mark. Quick Tip 1: Lock up your purse Get a from the sporting goods section. Use it to wrap your shoulder strap through a shopping cart a few times because the safety strap is probably being used for your child , then use the clip to attach the looped end to the cart. You can also do this in a restaurant as well. You can even get cute ones in shapes of hearts or houses or dog bones, etc. You can store the on the strap, and it will only take you about 12 seconds to strap your bag to the cart or chair. Note: This does nothing for you if you walk away from your purse for longer than two seconds, leave the bag open for anyone to pick through quickly, and other ways to make your bag less secure. Do you really need your lipstick and brush and makeup bag and all the other stuff for quick runs into Target? There may be times when leaving it in the trunk locked up is a better idea. I carry my wallet and my car keys on my body. I do not keep them in my day bag. That way, if ever I walk off and forget my bag, someone happens to cut the strap and steal it, my money, my identity and my means of escape are on me, not with them. To me, safety is infinitely more important than fashion and coincidentally, my husband agrees! Keep your purse out of plain site instead of leaving it on the car seat next to you. When you come in from outside, lock the door immediately. When you go into a bathroom stall — lock first THEN find a place to put your bag. Speak Up Do not be afraid to speak to someone to ask them to not come closer if approaching you in a parking lot. Do not be afraid to speak loudly to someone so that you can get the attention of others nearby. Do not be afraid to let your wishes be known that you do not want to be harmed. Might you be embarrassed if it turns out that you misunderstood the situation? Scream, yell, command — use your voice! Park Safely When parking, choose spots that are well-lit, amongst other cars, and as close to the main entrances of a building as you can not so you can be lazy so that you spend less time in the car park as possible. Lock your car quickly, but keep your keys handy in case you have to get back in. Be aware of someone loitering near your car do not approach , and always check in and around your car before entering. When loading your trunk, do so as quickly as you can and always keep aware on your surroundings of someone approaching. Keep your keys handy and do not fumble in your purse for them. Do not invite a predator in. Trust Your Instincts Trust your gut. If you feel something weird about a situation, get out of it. If a person is giving you cause to be concerned, excuse yourself from the conversation or cross the street to get away from them. Learn how to Use Your Gun Do not go out and buy a pretty little gun, put it in a purse and never touch it again. When the time comes to use it, will you be able to draw it safely? Know how to get it off safety? Know how to aim and shoot? Know how to take care of a jam? Know how to reload? Get out to a range and learn to shoot your weapon. Learn how to handle it safely. Practice drawing and dry firing if your gun works well, or get to use. Practice safely, but practice. Knowing how to use your gun effectively and safely will allow you to have another layer of defense between you and an attacker. Being proactive to keep yourself safe is your best self-defense move. They can show you a few moves to help you defend yourself, if necessary. When I took mine, our instructor emphasized — go for the soft spots. Do anything you can to get a window of opportunity to run away. That is your goal — get away and get help. I agree with everything you wrote—especially about listening to your gut instinct. I remember a few years ago when I used to live in an apartment building in the city I came home one night and parked in my assigned parking spot which is relatively far from the front entrance. Just before I was about to turn off my car and get out, I had the distinct impression not to park because it was dangerous to do so at that moment. To this day I do not know what danger was lurking in the darkness that night, but I do know that there was iminent danger if I did not listen to my instincts. This is a great article. I used to work late and would always call my mom to talk with until I was safely in my car. It made me feel safer because she knew where I was at and what I was doing. If anything were to happen she would have known. I kept myself aware of my surroundings however. Sometimes our conversations would involve what was going on around me. I really enjoyed your tips, but I would like to respectfully disagree on just one. I used to work in a really rough area of town, where the local cops would tell us to park our cars somewhere well-lit as you said , but also, if we could manage it, away from other cars. If you can see all the way around your car, and under it, you can be safely assured that no predators are lurking. This also deters thieves who are determined to steal catalytic converters for the scrap metal. All it takes is five minutes, and they can slide under your car and saw it off. Again, parking where you can see all the way around your car would help deter these people. I really enjoyed your article and wish more women would take these pointers to heart. I believe all women should cautiously take care of all women. I hate to frame it like that but people will create false helplessness to lure in their victims, so be cautious!! Basically: you see a female alone in a potentially bad situation invite her into a group, or help each other find a more populated area. Also there are many safe walking apps, personal favorite is SafeTrek. So glad you mentioned practicing at the range! Too many people buy a gun, then never practice with it. I go weekly to the range to practice going tonight, in fact! I still have much to learn, but I am constantly working to learn more. I use a small crossbody wallet-type. I can keep it close to me. Great tips, love the blog! Awful, horribly sexist article. However, since I feel women are responsible for their own safety, they NEED to be diligent for their own safety because of the high percentage of violence towards women, and because the majority of my audience is women, I felt an article directed at them was much more poignant than something generic. Take it as a great force of empowerment for women to be the masters of their own fate and to do those things that can help them. Feel free to take these tips and apply them to your own life as you see fit. A very good article Jane and 10 great tips! I have been teaching Krav Maga to women and girls for over 5 years and we teach a very effective technique which I feel should should be in every woman and girls arsenal. We are a women only event, run by women, for women, and this is the extremely effective technique what we teach to women of all ages. Quickly grab them and dig your fingertips into the fragile skin BEHIND the scrotum. Then, once you have a good grip, you turn your hand into a vice, with your fingers digging inwards, around the back and over the top of the testicles. If you do it right, you should feel the testes INSIDE your hand which is holding the scrotum. You want, whenever possible, to hook your fingers over and around at least one testicle. One of them is enough. Then, with your hands in a claw and your fingertips latched around the testes, you turn your hand sharply, as though you were turning a doorknob. Simultaneously, squeeze hard and pull the testicles away from his body as fast and as hard as you can. DO NOT LET GO OF THEM. This is really important. What happens then, is that your assailant usually screams out in pain and then tries to grab the wrist of your hand holding him in a futile attempt to try to get you to release him. If he does initially attempt to fight back tuck your head in and hold on tightly to the testicles within your hand. He then quickly loses one of the natural advantages he usually has over us his strength within a matter of seconds. Vomiting, curling over, collapsing and convulsing is common. Shock and unconsciousness can set in within 8 seconds. If he initially starts to fight back then you tuck your head in and keep squeezing his testicles until he faints. This only takes a matter of seconds. When he collapses, which he will, you get away to safety as quickly as possible and call for help. Some women scream while they are doing this, and some women think of a loved one being harmed to help overcome any bad feelings of hurting someone else even if they are being hurt themselves. Do whatever you have to do if you feel it helps. If done properly, and done with enough force, this technique can even lead to the testicles rupturing. We, as women have no part of our bodies as vulnerable as a mans testicles. After all, if you think about it testicles are just small objects of extreme vulnerability to pain squishiness wrapped in a delicate layer of skin which offers them no protection at all from this kind of counterattack by a woman. Most importantly, this fact holds true no matter what size your attacker is, nor how strong he is. I once worked with a group of Somali women who informed me that grandmothers, mothers, and daughters between generations shared this powerful method of fighting of men. I know that this advice would have been a difficult read for many Women, but our lives are worth far more than a rapists testicles and we should be prepared to do whatever it takes to get away to safety. Please help to share this advice with as many other women and girls in any way you can. It could one day be a life saver. Just a few comments from my point of view. Attaching your purse to the cart is a good idea. Just remember that if you take your eyes off your cart to peruse which item to buy, someone can walk off with the whole cart. You turn around, the cart is gone. So keep an eye on the cart. I have learned to keep one hand on my cart as I peruse the groceries. I absolutely LOVE that you included a section on firearms! Many people avoid that subject. I will give you credit for the quote. I am also going to share this article on our FB page as well as link from our website. We are a self defense business.

Make sure that your palace is a fortress though, bypotable water, and. But what if the way we traditionally think of self-defense is wrong. Follow Your Intuition The best weapon you have is your sincere-sense. I see that the writer mentions all these things. I am out of the habit now of keeping it at the ready, tips for womens self defense I do carry a LOUD whistle. Then you've got time to lose the weight for good with Prevention's new 10-minute workouts and 10-minute meals. Women are not safe anywhere, on the road, school, hostels, work, or on the bus. Rather than saying nothing at the moment and stewing over it later, she responded immediately, laying out work boundaries. Studies have shown that criminals are adept at choosing targets who print to be unaware of what is going on around them. NEVER, NEVER talk with the police with out a lawyer with you. If anything were to happen she would have known.