When you stamp, do it with your heel. Use as much force as is humanly possible. Strike with all your might - at least twice.
If you are wearing shoes with heels, then the force exerted is at least 20 tonnes per Sq. inch.
Stamp with all your bodyweight.
Do not use the ball of your foot to strike. You cannot make contact hard enough.
Retaining your balance is hard and it is easy to fall over.
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CLOSE QUARTER HOLDING - BODY CONTACT
Let us now move onto close quarter holding, in other words, body contact.
Only think of using techniques such as these when all other prior mentioned methods have been exhausted.
Do not attempt to scratch an attacker’s face. It is not effective enough, it causes only superficial injury and the reaction by the offender is rarely sufficient enough to obtain a successful release.
I know that it does make the man let go of you, but it does not incapacitate long enough to make safe properly.
If you feel the need to scratch, bite or pinch. Follow the release immediately with the application of a strike to the ankle using the before mentioned rules 1, 2 and 3.
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REAR HOLD - ARMS HELD
It is a basic fact that most women attempt to break free from a rear hold by wriggling. It just does not work. Do not do it.
You may not realise it, but whilst his arms are around you, he cannot actually do anything other than hold. You can, are able to, and will.
RULE 1
Lean your head forward
look down at the feet.
RULE 2
Stamp on toes with heel.
Shout “NO”.
RULE 3
Make safe.
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In addition, not instead, you may also apply:-
If the man spreads his feet to stop your stamp, then relax for a second. Using the full force of your body, strike his nose with the back of your head.
If the nose is struck, the eyes water.
Nose strike.
Then stamp again.
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REAR WAIST HOLD - ARMS FREE
Exactly the same techniques as previously described can be used. But with the hands free comes another.
Clench the fist, not as a punch, but as though you are going to knock loudly at a large door.
Extend the knuckle of the index finger.
RULE 1
Look down at his hands.
RULE 2
Strike the back of his hands
repeatedly as hard as possible.
Shout “NO”.
RULE 3
Make safe.
Stamp on instep as before.
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FRONT HOLDING
Again as before, these techniques should only be attempted when all other methods of persuasion have been exhausted.
This deals with the eternal Romeo at a party. You know the type,
‘god’s gift to women’. Your body is against a wall, you have repeatedly attempted to leave.
RULE 1
Look down at his ankles.
RULE 2
Kick shins. Shout No.
RULE 3
Make safe.
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