Martial Arts for Women Self Defense!

Guest post by Alok Vats

Streets today are teeming with vicious and unscrupulous elements targeting mainly women. They are subject to assaults, rape and murder.  It is therefore, important to avoid such atrocious incidents from occurring.

No matter how many precautions you take, your safety is not guaranteed. So, it is wise to learn to defend yourself when caught in a dreadful situation. For such purposes, learning martial arts for your self-defense is the best choice.

With martial arts you have survival skills in hand, and the ability to protect yourself against atrocities, which boosts your self-confidence. As you scroll down, you will come across Best Martial Arts for Women Self-Defense.

One such incident which happened on 16^th of December 2012 in Delhi has sparked a revolution in India with the youth coming up with different ways to generate awareness and demand a change in attitude towards women. One such initiative was the Delhi Flash Mob against Delhi Gang Rape, which can be seen in the trial video:

Martial Arts for Self-Defense of Women

With most of the martial arts, you learn punching and kicking hard. With some, you know ways to twist and hyperextend joints and cause pain to the attacker. Some train you a combination of fighting empty-handed as well as with weapons. You are also trained to use your belongings like belt, key, purse etc. as weapons.  Here are some martial arts types that can help if you are in danger.

§  Tae Kwon Do – Literal translation of this martial art says- the art of kicking and punching. Originated in Korea, it enjoys being the most celebrated martial art on the globe and is usually said to be defensive for women. The reason is that maximum attacks in this martial art spring from lower parts of the body. With it, you learn some really devastating kicks and ways to immobilize an attacker giving him dreadful blows.

§  Krav Maga – This martial art developed in Israel. It trains you in combating with armed and unarmed assailants. Practices of Krav Maga are mental. Its techniques help in handling risky situations. They are designed particularly to train you in direct combat practices. You learn to employ various body parts like elbows and knees to fight and be guarded against attackers.

§  Aikido – Hailing from Japan, Aikido is considered to be the most distinctive form from other martial art styles. As much body strength is not required in this martial art, it is well-suited for women. Its concept is to use the attacker's force for your benefit. It is meant just for you if you want to know about defending yourself with joint locking and throwing techniques. 

§  Kung Fu – Having vital self-defense aspects, it is highly alluring for women. It also trains you to defeat 2-4 people at a time. It also teaches you to use weapons which is applicable if you can grab an item to forcefully hit the attacker. Also, you learn how to defend yourself if attacked with a knife. Learn this martial art and you can get an attacker to surrender.

§  Kick Boxing – Kick boxing is of various types like Japanese, European, North American and Indonesian. You just have to select the type you find most suitable for yourself and be prepared to answer the attacker vigorously and beat him to the ground.

§  Brazilian Jiu Jitsu – This martial art can be wonderfully advantageous for women as its techniques are grappling. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu empowers you for ground fighting, especially when attackers try to pin you under them. You can give them terrible blows with this martial art form.

§  Jeet Kune Do – Jeet Kune Do provides you with techniques to hit the attacker most closely and hardly like hitting his eyes with your fingers. The movements are simple, direct, quick to learn and perform. Once trained in this form, you can smash the intentions of your attacker.

      Martial arts are brilliant ways to develop your physical and mental abilities required to guard yourself against grave situations. They teach you strong technique generation for your safety. Above mentioned Best Martial Arts for Women Self-Defense forms equip you with fierce and forceful techniques when you are trapped in a threatening condition. They are furious, effective and useful. They keep you strong, alert and protected. With these self-defense moves, you can ward-off impending attackers with ease.

Author Bio:

This guest blog was written by Alok Vats, who currently works as an Online Marketing Manager at Koenig Solutions Ltd. He also runs a blog I News India, a self improvement website, which is primarily known for empowering ideas.

Ways to deal with depression

Guest Post by Kiran

Today, I read an article in Times Life that reminded me my gloomy days. We all in almost all stage of our life face some kind of stress, frustration and loneliness and yes, we try to overcome it by different ways but many times situation becomes too difficult for us to handle so we try to give ourselves physical pain just to divert our mind towards the external pain and the formula really works. May be secretly, but yes many of us have done this and I know how difficult it is to admit it publicly. Being a teenager I can really correlate all this to my life.

To overcome these situations many of us believe that sharing your problems helps a lot. I agree too, it helps a lot but in today’s socialized life, we all know the situation and maximum time we are left with so the source of problem is isolation. We are social animals and we are born to be in a society, without which we can never survive, we depend on others for over survival. Each one of us needs someone with whom we can share and discuss. However, what to do when we don’t have that someone in our life? Moreover, it surely doesn’t mean one should cut themselves.

Believe it or not, but your stressful days can be a boom to you. They can really help you to explore yourself and to know your soul even better. Never force yourself to be happy when you are dying inside, don’t ignore your inner voice, let yourself be free to express your feelings at least to you. Be true to yourself, you can’t hide anything from yourself. Then try to figure out what and when things went wrong, recalling your past will never harm you and try to learn from your mistakes, where you went wrong or when and why the situation went against you.

After that, try to rearrange things to make them come under control. If you are really sure that there is no way out then this is the time to flush all your worries to gutter. Why to worry if you can’t do anything about it? Worrying will also do nothing. Give yourself a long break, try to feel the rhythm of your heartbeat and dance to it. Life is a real gift and we all know it will end one day then why to die every day.

Give yourself a chance to paint, write or do some kind of creative work. Trust me this really helps a lot. Don’t ever worry if you are worst in it still it is far better than hurting yourselves. If you are afraid to show it then do it secretly it will definitely do no harm. I have come across many people who are very creative when they are stressed because this is the best way one can express his feelings. It is well said art is the only thing by which one can connect to their soul and can express every hidden desire or even deep sorrows. So, whenever you feel stressed dance, paint, write and do everything you once dreamed of. You never now, your inner soul may have a hidden Picasso dying to come out.     

Kiran is a final year student of B.Tech(EC) in G.L.Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management, Greater Noida. She loves reading and has finally decided to pour out her feelings on an online platform, till now she preferred writing in her personal diary.