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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:

From the street to the bedroom…continuing the self-defense for women series here is a video I found with some good advice on defending yourself from an attempted sexual assualt: