Women's Self Defence Brighton Blog
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We want to positively affect people's lives who lack confidence and skills by introducing them to a non-bias, simple self-defense approach for women and members of the lgbtq+ community and its allies that empower confidence and eases anxiety around gender-based violence. Get tips on women's self defense in Brighton and Hove and learn things you could do now that increase your personal and..
Women's Self Defence Brighton Blog
1y ago
5 Lessons you can learn on our programmes
Thinking of learning women's self-defence?
The number of lessons you can learn is endless
Such lessons range from learning skills, concepts and awareness, sometimes just 'knowing' can give you power in a volatile situation
But today let's keep things simple, here are the 5 lessons you can learn on our programmes
Strategy
Leverage
Striking
The Grey Areas
and Ending
Most self defence programmes only focus on one or two mentioned above and rarely acknowledge the others in the context of sports or the 'art', that is all fine, but in regards to ..read more
Women's Self Defence Brighton Blog
1y ago
In 2021 covid went into fulling swing, affecting the world.
At the time, there was and still is a darker pandemic that ran parallel yet gets nowhere near the same level of publicity
This parallel is a problem that has been around much long before covid 19.
Until the world pays more attention to this horrid violation of human rights, it will sadly be around long after
The Un women referred to this as The shadow pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19
It affected over 243 million women and girls worldwide
The 243 million had been affected by sexual and/or physical violence
the report ..read more
Women's Self Defence Brighton Blog
1y ago
A few months ago, someone asked me, if you had 10 mins to teach self-defence, what would you show me?
I loved this question in so many ways. It sunrises today’s business lifestyles and outlines how women’s self defence has been previously sold
But before we get into that, it might be good to outline some of the pros and cons of the 10min approach for the short term. However we have just put together our Online Essentials Programme, inspired by this blog, you can learn more about the Online Essentials Programme Here
Cons
Momentary confidence and has the potential of giving you false hope ..read more
Women's Self Defence Brighton Blog
1y ago
In this blog, you will learn the 6 most comment myths in women’s self defence and why they do not work
1. Kicking them in the b*$#s is the only strategy you need
2. Just Runaway
3. Adrenaline will save me and I’ll turn into the…… SHE-HULK!!
4. Using keys in between my knuckles and punch them
5. You'll only ever be violently attacked by a stranger at night
6. Learning to Box is a great women's self-defence system
7. An attacker will spontaneously pick and attack their victims on a whim
The 7 Misconceptions of women's self-defence
The most common misconceptions of women's self defence are, in ..read more
Women's Self Defence Brighton Blog
1y ago
What is the Colour Codes of Awareness?
The colour codes of awareness might seem like common sense for many people. For many self defence systems, they sweep awareness under the carpet as if to say, it's something you should just know. In the same way, many self defence programmes do not acknowledge there is a difference between self defences for women and men when evidently there is. For example, 98% of all violent attacks towards women are committed by a male who they know, versus 50% male to male violent attacks.
Self defence needs a rethink, a new look and modernised.
Heightened level ..read more
Women's Self Defence Brighton Blog
1y ago
Today let me share with you some tips that can help you identify a key problem in self-defence
In order to help you identify the key issues, I need to share with you some stats.
A little heads up before we start, the slides below look at the numbers behind the four most common forms of murder against women in the UK in 2020.
As heavy as this all sounds, there is light at the end of the tunnel so hang in there.
I'll be listing valuable tips throughout, and if you're training with us/or thinking of training with us, then you'll start seeing some similar threads of conversation.
If you have exper ..read more