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I thought it was about time I added another post in my self-defense for women section, and particularly about defense against sexual assualt, as this is the main issue specific to women and one that I have only touched on lightly before. This is a specific technique for a very specific scenario, but I will be adding more later to cover a wider range of circumstances.

So here is the situation: you are lying on your back, your attacker is between your legs, most likely with your knees raised up, you are struggling and your attacker is trying to subdue you by hitting you. It is worth noting that this position, the most common position immediately prior to a full sexual assault, is a common defensive posture used in mixed martial arts called the guard, so there are a large number of proven techniques that can be used to defend yourself in this situation (although not all MMA techniques would be appropriate).

And here is what you do: As your attacker hits you grab hold of their wrist. This shouldn’t be hard to do, as long as you can overcome the natural instinct to just try to block the strike - you may have to just let them hit you in order to concentrate on making the grab, but it is worth making this kind of sacrifice. At the same time you should twist your body to the side lifting whichever of your legs is on the same side as the arm they used to hit you and throwing it across in font of their face so that the back of your leg is against their head or neck. From here it is actually fairly easy to apply a very painful joint lock that is perfectly capable of breaking the arm at the elbow simply by straightening your body and flattening yourself against the ground by pulling their arm and pushing their head with your leg so that you end up lying on top of their arm - then just pull up on their wrist whilst using the weight of your body to keep their elbow down. You woulod be suprised how little strength you need to use when doing this to cause exreme pain and even to break the arm at he elbow joint (which is a much worse injury than a regular fracture).

For a bit of further information on using arm bars as a defense fromthis position here is a video showing how it is used in mixed martial arts fighting:

In my first post in this ‘deadliest techniques’ series I looked at the stomp, and of course my previous posts on groin strikes and on fighting dirty probably fall under this category too. In this post I want to look at something that is even more devastating and deadly, so it I feel that I must repeat my earlier warnings that techniques such as this primarliy for information only, and should only be actually used in the most desperate circumstances - particularly in the case of this technique situations in which you must quickly incapacitate an opponent, such as if you are fighting multiple opponents and need to make sure that one attacker is out of action so that they can’t get back up and stab you in the back or something.

The technique that I am talking about is the knee smash to the spine. It is great for taking someone out of action instantly, but can break the spine and end up leaving the person it is used on paralyzed or dead. Basically begins with grabbing your opponent in a head lock so that their body is in front of you, their neck held under your armpit, and their head behind you. There are various ways you might move into this, but a common one would be to side step a punch and turn so that you are standing next to them facing the same way as they are as you grab them and pull their head backwards. At the same time as pulling their head back and down so that they have to bend their body backwards you then drive your knee up into the spine. The shock of this will always cause temporary paralysis / severe difficult getting back up and moving around, but as already stated it can also quite easily maim or kill, so should not be used lightly.

You can learn a lot about how to defend yourself in a street fight by watching videos of people actually doing that. OnlineFightVideo.com have just added a street fighting videos section to its regularly updated blog featuring the best fight videos. Unlike many other sites that have this kind of thing the videos which get included are all hand picked for quality, and all of the videos in this new section feature demonstrations of real martial arts and self defense skill rather than just clueless thugs going at each other, so you really should be able to learn somthing from them. Its still new so there aren’t many videos there yet, but the site is still well worth a look