Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Strengthen Your Weaknesses with Self-Defense

By Nui Kahuna

My recurring sleeping problem urged me to do a little channel surfing last night. And I happened to look into a chick TV program. As expected, it was hosted by a beautiful woman, who, in my opinion, lacks the liveliness to run a TV show. Anyway the show was targeted towards women, and the current topic was of course, about women and their self-esteem. I could have switched channels, since I had heard about this many times already. However, I managed to spare a few minutes to check the program out.

A professor talked about one of the biggest problems of young women today, which is according to her, low self-esteem.

(I personally think that self-esteem is not the problem here.)

And so, the host and the featured guest played victim. It was mainly about the crimes and violence that could affect women. They also tackled on how women are essentially defenseless against these acts.

First of all, women are not defenseless.

Women may be small and weaker than men in general, but these facts don't support the assumption that every woman is defenseless. At least not the women in my family. I'd bet that if somebody would attack one of the women in my family, then he would be in for a fight he would never forget.

I wouldn't even have to get involved, although I probably would.

In my opinion, if you want to improve your self-esteem, as a woman, you should know how to defend yourself. If a certain person is aware of the fact that she knows how to defend herself in times of danger, this way of thinking improves her self-esteem.

There's no need for you to do tough workouts, although it would be great to keep your body in good shape. Even people who are strong as bears from gym training could sometimes lose from a fight.

Defending yourself is about 95% mental. Knowing what to do is more important than physical strength.

Carrying an equalizer, or more than one equalizer is important. It's something I have been preaching about for years, and I'm just starting to get some traction.

Some pepper spray aimed at the face is a powerful weapon against a 250-pound mook. 950,000 volts of electricity matches up with the mook pretty well too. By the way, you can also inflict serious damage if you use a pen knife, or any other self-defense tool for that matter.

I cant even count the number of letters and emails from women who stand taller, walk prouder, and have fewer fears since tooling up. They no longer fear walking to their car, or being out at night.

That doesn't even include the women who have actually taken down a mook, and made him regret he ever set eyes on them.

I strongly believe that self-esteem should start with self-defense.

If you think you should be the one who should take control, then tool up now.

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