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You are suddenly caught in a surprise attack without your personal alarm, pepper spray, or stun gun? Your trusted stab-ready pocket pen is also missing. You feel the paralyzing grip of fear and helplessness coming over you.

Here are seven basic self-defense moves most teenagers and adults can do to free themselves from attackers without much previous training. Some of them are derived from judo, kung fu, tai-kwan-do and other known martial arts. The first four listed below are done mostly when attacked from the front side, the last three, when attacked either from the front or backside.

1. Ear slap. With your fingers tightly closed and slightly cupped, slap both hands sideways atop both of the attacker’s ears simultaneously as hard as possible. The resulting popping or ringing sensation will give you a few seconds to do a knee-to-groin kick or to break free.

2. Eye gouge. With your fists closed tightly and your upward-extended thumbs held close to your fists, try to gouge the attacker’s eyes with your thumbs. If one eye is gouged successfully, you can probably break free, and run. The attacker does not want to go blind or lose an eye. The thumbs are stronger than the fingers, and are less likely to break during a gouging attempt.

3. Throat or nose thrust. Both the Adam’s apple (throat) and nose are susceptible to pain from hard blunt jabs. In either attempt, use your closed fist to hit these areas. The attacker’s nose can also be hit in a slightly upward direction with the palm-heel side of the fist.

4. Groin kick. Bring your knee up into the attacker’s frontal crotch area as hard as possible. This one is meant for male attackers. However, if attacked frontally by a female, you can press your thumbs hard into both sides of the groin section toward the top of the creases between the legs and torso. This latter maneuver is a life-guards way of breaking clutch holds while saving drowning swimmers.

5. Elbow swing. This move produces a powerful blow to the attacker’s head, or to the kidney area, which is on either side of the lower mid-back section. If possible, swing your body together with this blow to increase its power. Otherwise, extend your arm completely across your face, and then bring your elbow back into the attacker as hard as possible as your arm folds back. If aiming for the head, go for the ear, eyes, or nose. An ear blow affects the attacker’s sense of balance in addition to the shock of the blow itself.

6. Arm break. This one takes more skill, but is fairly basic. While facing the attacker, grab one of his or her wrists with both hands (your thumbs are weak points for gripping; you will need both hands). Then, raise the attacker’s arm upward so you can twist yourself under it, and then bring that arm down onto your shoulder as hard as you can. More than likely, you will sprain the attacker’s elbow seriously rather than breaking it. But, either way, it will disable the attacker long enough for you to escape.

7. Foot stomp or ankle-knee kick. Stomp the attacker’s foot arch as hard as possible with one of your heels. It hurts big-time. Otherwise, kick the ankle (it also hurts) or the knee as hard as possible. A sprained ankle or knee will incapacitate the attacker long enough to escape.

Other acceptable street moves include the following,

pulling the hair stabbing with a hairpin or anything sharp biting the flesh with teeth clawing or scratching with fingernails groping for sensitive body-parts and squeeze-crushing them grabbing any nearby object for use as a defensive weapon. By shadow practicing all of these moves, your mind and body will acclimate to fast responses with confidence if attacked. Also, the practice of carrying and using protective devices, like, a rigid ballpoint pen or a small stun gun acclimates escape responses well. Of course, it is always much better to cautiously avoid any kind of potential attack in the first place.

By: J Delms

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