Re: Self defence

On 14 Oct 2005 07:56:23 -0700, "Dagmar"
<mrw44contact-google@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> The best strategy in that case is to give them what they want quickly and without protest.
>
>Unfortunately in this case, all he wanted was to have a fight with me,
>just some aggressive drunken bloke who will find any excuse to start a
>fight. He might have thought I was a bloke in the first place as he was
>behind me and I have short hair, but by the point he attacked me he'd
>realized I was a girl and that didn't stop him. His intention was
>clearly not sexual assault or mugging, he'd been shouting insults
>("shorty", "fatty") at me as I'd first walked past him and I'd just
>walked on thinking that was all (he was busy "relieving" himself in the
>street at that point and hadn't tried to follow me).
>
>It's only a few minutes later that I noticed the guy running towards me
>shouting, by that point he was really close and had grabbed a big
>rubbish bag in the street (apparently there are still people stupid
>enough to put their rubbish bags out directly on the street at the
>week-end), raising it above his head ready to smash it against me. All
>I could think of at the time was: put my face against the wall, and
>proctect my neck and the sides of my face with my arms and hands, and
>pray there was no glass in the rubbish bag. Luckily it was squashy
>enough and all I got was a sore neck for a couple of days.Then other
>people turned back and intervened to prevent him from beating me up.
>But even then he was still shouting at me challenging me to a fight.
>
>I have a few friends or colleagues who have been attacked like this
>over the years, and it's never been a mugging or sexual assault. Every
>time it was either some young chavs "having fun" or some older
>aggressive drunk guys who thought they'd seen or heard something that
>was enough to provoke them... One of them for instance started shouting
>at my (male) friend because he'd supposedly heard him make a derogatory
>comment to a young female (which he hadn't, that's not his style, and I
>was with him at that point). The guy started following him saying
>things like: "how did you dare say that to her?" and insulting him etc.
>My friend was just going: "I didn't say anything, are you sure it was
>me, I don't know what you're talking about..." and then turning to the
>female who was still there "sorry, did I say anything offensive to
>you?" and the girl was just equally at a loss as to what the other guy
>might have heard, she was taking my friend's defence, but he wouldn't
>hear anything, he just wanted to have a fight with my friend and
>started chasing him until he went to the door of a nightclub to ask for
>help.

Running away is often the best self defence, as long as you can run
faster that the lunatic can. If he is gaining and a few steps behind
you you can suddenly stop, brace one foot against the pavement and
thrust backwards at him, hopefully knocking him to the ground. A
couple of very hard kicks to the head, and I mean *very* hard, most
effective in the face, while he is down, should give you enough time
to escape.

If the nutter is actually talking and engaging in anthropoid pre
aggression displays, then a nearby brick wall can be a good weapon.

Beg for mercy, apologise, cry, grovel, while getting close, then
suddenly launch yourself at him without warning, and before he
launches his attack, while screaming in full voice, both hands pushing
his face and ram the back of his head with all your body weight at
full velocity against the wall. Grab his hair at the front, pull his
head fowards a foot or so and then smash it full force into the wall
again with both hands. This will give you time to escape.

There are many things you can do against an attacker, but they do take
a little training, mosty to learn to put yourself in the right frame
of mind, but they will increase your chances of surviving.

Clough

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