Simple, effective techniques for protecting yourself in your home, in your car, or on the street.

A sexual assualt occurs in the United states every nine minutes. Until women learn to defend themselves that statistic will remain the same or increase.

A Manual for Woman's Self-Defense teaches women how to defend themselves through simple step-by-step methods and over 240 photographs. The easy-to-learn techniques make this book unique among self-defense handbooks. Women will be able to employ the techniques presented even in the face of an overwhelming stength disadvantage and without the need for martial arts instruction. The reader will learn how to protect herself in her home, her car, and on the streets.

A Manual for Woman's Self-Defense is the most vital and timely handbook a woman can have today to make her feel secure against attack.

Michael Pickering brings very mpressive credentials to this book. He holds black belts in a variety of martial arts and is a qualified instructor and top competitor. He has a Master's degree in physical education from the University of California (Berkeley), and he has taught classes and seminars in self-defense for women for more than a dozen years.

Contents

Foreword
Part One Preparation is the key
1 Introduction to self-defense
2 Prepare yourself
3 Movement
4 Blocks
Part Two The best defense is a good offense
5 Strikes
6 Kicks
7 Falls
8 Throws
9 Integrating the different techniques
10 Weapons
Part Three Nonphysical self-defense techniques
11 Deception
12 Situational responses
13 Nonphysical responses
14 Avoiding confrontations
15 A different kind of rape
16 Emotional aspects
17 Legal concerns