SELF DEFENCE FOR WOMEN

Martial arts and women, a very fascinating combination, some of them today enroll in self defence classes in order to acquire some skills who could help to deal with a dangerous situation, most of them are women who have had problems in the past, a violent husband, or maybe have suffered stalking, harassment, even rape attempted, well, these are absolutely all good reasons for start to have interest in self defence.

But beside what sometime we see in the movies, can a woman deal with a potential troublemaker ? Ok, first and foremost forget what usually you see in the movies, I mean the classic 110 pounds woman who beat a big man of 242 pounds without too much effort, most of the time what you see in a movie is unrealistic, forget also what you see in the most exhibitions where a partner let the lady do whatever she want without resist, because against a real troublemakers this stuff don't work.

SOME STRETCHING ADVICES

Albeit I never fell in love with stretching or yoga, I couldn't not admit who it's very important and should be a part of your training, just make sure to do it in the right way, don't overstretching if you want to avoid injuries, still I prefer the old static stretching, it's very relaxing and safe, but you can chose among a wide different ways to do it, static, active, dynamic, yoga, P.N.F and so on, I don't recommend the old ballistic stretching, that's because the odds to hurt yourself increase a lot.

Be carefull also to not get overtrained with it, in the last years I discoreved who is not required do hours of stretching every day in order to develop or mantain a good level of flexibility, in my case 15 minutes for two time at week is enough, this is because my goal is only avoid injuries when I lift weights, but maybe your goals are different, depending on your purpose, you would need of do more than I'm doing, so probably 30-45 minutes for 3 time at week will do the job, even you can do more.