How to Fight back and Win: The Joy of Self-Defense

'Judith Fein has integrated the current body of research on assault prevention and self-protection with practical down-to-earth physical defense measures. Her message is one of action, and of hope. Any woman interested in a basic primer on self-protection and self-defense would to well to read this

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book.'-Alan J. Prater, Assistant Chief Deputy Sheriff, Shreveport, LA

'Winning is an attitude. Winning is having no other options in your mind. Winning is pure guts and determination.'-from 'How to Fight back and Win'

Judith Fein, Ph.D., black belt in tae kwon do, has conducted self-defense programs since 1974. She is a former military intelligence officer, and is on the faculty of San Francisco State University. Dr. Fein is a nationally recognized self-defense expert and is author of three books on self-defense. How to Fight Back and Win was written to complement Fein's Exploding The Myth of Self-Defense.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Lesson One An overview
Understanding this book
Introductions
Self-defense skills as survival skills
The myth of self-defense
The joy of self-defense
The fear of fighting
The three levels of defense
Key points to remember
Lesson Two Physical defense-basic skills: The stance and the punch
The fighting stance
The punch
Yelling as a weapon
How to practice physical skills
Practice drills
Lesson Three How to win-The physchology of fighting back
Victimization and personal power
Understanding assault patterns
Countering assault patterns
Transformations
Responding to the fears of fighting
Key points to remember
Lesson Four Physical defense-Basic skills: Kicking
The front snap kick
The side kick
The side kick-kicking to the front
The back kick
Practice drills
Lesson Five How to fight and win
What you need to know about the laws of self-defense
Principles of fighting
Key points to remember
Lesson Six Physical defense-basic skills: Blocking and counterattacking
Blocking
The downward block
The upward block
Counterattacking
Adjust your distance
Target your attack
Practice dirills
Lesson Seven Rape and sexual assault prevention-Stranger attacks
Strategies for countering stranger attacks
Stratagies for coiuntering an assailant with a weapon
Physical resistance and injury
The difference between victim and resister behavior
Key points to remember
Lesson Eight Physical defense-Releases: Grabs
When grabbed by the wrist
When grabbed by the arm
When grabbed by the hair
Practice drills
Key points to remember
Lesosn Nine Assault prevention-Known assailants
Scope of he problem
Prevention
Prevent entrapment
Suggestions for avoiding the 'dating game' trap
Rape avoidance and defense strategies
Key points to remember
Lesson Ten Domestic violence prevention
Nature and scope of the problem
Cycles of violence
Characterisitcs of batterers
Why women stay
Prevention
Self--esteem
How to help a friend
National U.S. Resources
Key points to remember
Lesson Eleven Physical defense-releases: Choke holds, bear hugs, and rear attacks
Choking attack
Escaping a 'bear hug'
Release from rear attack: Forearm around throat
Release from rear garrote attack
Practice drills
Key points to remember
Lesson Twelve Streetwise safety strategies
Keep alert in public
Acquire street smarts
How to fight street harassment
Strategies for automatic teller machine (ATM) safety
Taking mass transportation
Car safety and carjacking prevention
Key points to remember
Lesson Thirteen Physical defense-down defenses
Basic principles
Down defenses
Practice drills
Lesson Fourteen Protecting your home and familiy-mechanical security and psychological barriers
Basic concepts
Mechanical security
Physchological barriers to intrusion
Key points to remember
Lesson Fifteen Escaping multiple attackers
Prevention
Running away
If you are surrounded
How to fight back ad win
Key points to remember
Lesson Sixteen Protecting your home and family-Safety awareness strategies
Basic principles
Telephone safety strategies
Mailboxes and rental box tips
Personal check security
Front door safety
Close your drapes
Emergency plans
Good neighbors
Key points to remember
Lesson Seventeen On the road-Travel safety
Before you leave
Planning for security
If you take your car
If you rent a car
If you take a taxi
If you travel by air
Hotel and motel security
Keypoints to remember
Lesson Eighteen Defense against weapons
The weapons question
Prevention
Location of attacker
Assailant tries to force you into automobile
Armed assailant tries to sexualy assault you
Knife defenses
Practice drills
Key points to remember
Lesson Nineteen Physical defense-Self-defense weapons
Guns as self-defense weapons
Tear gas and O.C. (pepper)
Stun guns
Stun gun or tear gas?
Personal alarms
Key points to remember
Lesson Twenty Putting it all togethe

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