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Scrambled Eggs!!!

Are the testicles a legitimate target for self-defence?

I can answer this question in one word - YES! The information on this page applies equally whether you happen to be male or female. If you are attacked by a man and you need to defend yourself, you must use every means at your disposal to ensure that you succeed. One of the main weapons you have at your disposal (assuming you do not happen to be a heavily armed professional soldier with a platoon of armoured tanks at your command) is the knowledge of just how vulnerable your attacker's testicles really are.

There are two main ways in which the knowledge of a man's vulnerability can be useful if you are ever attacked. The first (if you are male) is to remember that your groin makes an easy target for an attacker and you can go some way towards protecting it by being on your guard and keeping your lower body slightly twisted to one side during a fight, or by being prepared to bring one knee upwards and inwards quickly to cover your balls if you see a strike coming. The other side to this knowledge is the fact that your attacker (if male) will also be just as vulnerable between his legs and you can use ANY means at your disposal to disable his testicles! Kick, knee, grab, squeeze, punch and elbow his nuts into a pulp. Although most men will try to protect their balls in a fight, a swift blow to the face or neck will "open him up" for a strike to his (now unprotected) groin. Don't just hit once, keep hitting until he can't move or speak. You will then understand something of the power trip that women get when they can disable a man so easily! Please remember that I am not advocating that this be used to attack another man, but that it makes an effective method of self-defence against an aggressive attacker.

The very idea of striking a stranger in the groin may seem repulsive to many people (both male and female), but if you are attacked, fighting this repulsion may well save your honour or even your life. You need to prepare yourself mentally, so that in the event of an attack, you are able to summon your resources without delay or hesitation. I would propose the following course of action in order to prepare your mind for this:-

1. Use some of the other sites on the Internet to familiarise yourself with groin strikes via images of men being struck between their legs. Note the many ways in which this can be done and the fact that groin strikes are possible from almost any position.
2. Now picture yourself giving these strikes. If it helps, stand up and practice giving blows into the air shouting "NO!" with each one. Imagine each punch, kick or knee connecting with the tender genital organs of the man whom you hate the most. The following self-defence illustrations may help you visualise some different scenarios: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
3. One other matter which unfortunately you will need to consider is that there is a chance you may be attacked by a naked man (particularly if he intends to sexually assault you). The sight of a stranger's genitalia is often enough to stall a victim's thought processes just long enough to allow him to attack. Do not let this happen to you. This part of the preparation will be particularly difficult for the men reading this article, although it will be no piece of cake for the female readers either. You should now repeat the mental imaging suggested above, but now visualise your attacker to be naked. Picture the full range of attacks as you did before, but picture them connecting with loose, hanging testicles that are utterly unprotected and exposed.
4. There are many, many ways of effectively attacking a man's genital organs in order to disable him and all the possible approaches could never be effectively described on one page. However, if your attacker is naked, you do have one additional method available to you which is particularly effective and is worth mentioning here. This was proposed by self-defence expert Susan Smith in her excellent book "Fear or Freedom" and her instructions on how to REALLY injure a naked attacker's testicles can be viewed by clicking here!

I cannot emphasise enough that the only barriers between you and your freedom in the case of an unprovoked attack from a man could be your own inhibitions. You need to be aware of the power of a strike to a man's genitals and you need to ensure that you keep the presence of mind to use that knowledge effectively in a crisis.

The one problem you may well encounter in trying to hit a man between his legs is that he could anticipate your attack. The male sex organs are the single weakest part of a man's body and he may well expect that any attack will be directed at his groin. The easiest way to counter this (as explained at the top of this page) is to use a single distracting blow as far from his groin as possible (ie. a punch aimed at the face or throat) to divert his attention and prompt him to flinch, close his eyes for a moment or turn his face away. Then IMMEDIATELY strike his groin! Hit him again and again and again between his legs until he cannot retaliate. Some men can respond after a single kick to the testicles, but few can resist a repeated attack. Show no mercy; would you have got any from him? Do not stop hitting his sex organs until he ceases to become a threat to you, or you may live to regret hitting him in the first place. Prepare yourself to keep on hitting and only stop when you are out of danger.

There can only be more thing to say on this matter - RUN AWAY AND CALL THE POLICE. You are safe, but his next victim may not be so lucky.

Hi, Joanne here again. It's a while since I first wrote an article for this site, here we are only a few months into the millennium and already I am new and improved. I realised it the other day when I was at my friend Becky's house and the guy delivering the take-away food arrived at the door. For me, there is always, in that first moment after opening the door to an unknown man, this thought-loop in my brain: "Strange guy at the door. Is it okay to let him in? Are we safe? Is he harmless? Do I need to be worried?"

Except in this instance, when my usual paranoia was interrupted by something unique: "This guy better not try anything weird, because if he does, Becky and I are going to kick the **** out of him." It was such an unusual thought to be having that it actually caused me to laugh out loud. And the weirdest thing about it was it was true.

About a week ago, Becky and I graduated from a self-defence training course called Impact, the product of an organisation that you might have seen covered on a local news programmes in Scotland because its classes make for very good for video clips: girls practicing street fighting moves on a guy in a big padded suit who is paid to be kneed in the groin and kicked in the head by every member of the class.

"Kickin' ass for the new millennium" might just be my new motto. Learning to fight was a weird trip I never thought I would take. But when I found out that Becky had signed up for the class, I thought I had better try it, too. After all, my boyfriend actually LIKES taking this sort of abuse! It was time to spring in to action and try it for real.

Like most women, I had a vocabulary of aggressive reactions that consisted of pouting, a little light slapping and the old silent treatment. It would have been easier for me to be incredibly sarcastic to my intruder than to haul him off and punch him. I felt that my only option besides utter compliance was to go limp and pretend to have fainted.

But HAH! That was the old 20th-century me. Now, after weeks of practicing with scenarios that were nerve-wrackingly similar to a real attack, I know I could now turn around, yell really loudly and give him a heelpalm to the centre of his face followed immediately with a knee to the groin.

If he went down , I could continue with a hammer fist to his temple or a choice of kicks to his head, perhaps concluding with everyone's heel-of-the-foot-to-the-center-of-his-face favourite, The Axe, as an encore. I now know that statistically speaking, most attacks on women are by unarmed assailants.

Apparently, in 75 percent of the cases if a woman responds with ANYTHING of a remotely aggressive nature, including just screaming "NOOO!" and looking like she really means business, the guy will turn and leave.

As the instructors in this course pointed out continually, "A guy who attacks a woman isn't looking for a fight. He is looking for a victim." But it was not comfortable learning how to be physically aggressive. Every woman in the class had to jump quite a few socialisation hurdles to get to a place where she could really be in a fight, including curbing the urge to stop and tend to the person she hit.

When the class began, some of the women couldn't even really summon a loud voice with which to scream the word "Nooo!" They sounded like baby birds making little peeping noises.

This, of course, was not amongst my problems since all things requiring a big mouth have always come easily to me. Slugging someone in the face was quite a different matter. We learned Heelpalm and Elbow and Kick the first hour of the first day. Then every week a new scary violent move or an alarming new scenario would be added in to the mix via a cheery, matter-of-fact demonstration that would make my jaw drop. "Someday you might be walking down the street and THIS might happen," Karen the instructor would say, with a big smile, just seconds before the guy in the padded suit grabbed her from behind and put his hands around her throat. Followed, of course, by a move she would teach us that freed her to give him the elbow, the knee and The Axe.

One week we fought off attack in the limited space of a simulated lift. Another week we had multiple assailants and were taunted with sexual innuendos, lifted from behind and thrown to the ground and just when you took care of the one guy, the other guy came at you. Becky leaned over to me and whispered, "It's a real bag of horrors." And she was being a cock-eyed optimist.

Then there was the week when the padded-suit guy crawled on top of us, as we lay on the floor pretending to be asleep. This one upset me in a way that I didn't see coming, firing off synapses in my brain that hadn't ignited in years. But this time I learned some behavioural options I never knew existed: ways to throw him off from the back and from the front, plus follow-up moves to use immediately after, many of which involve kicking because a woman's greatest physical power is in her legs.

No assailant is a model of good mental health, but any assailant who takes his underpants off around a woman who has had Impact training is not just deranged but unbelievably stupid.

During the six-week course, there was groin action aplenty -- kneeing, pulling, kicking, punching, biting. "Really get your knee up in there, Jo," instructors would cheer as you fought.

Week six ended with a graduation where we elbowed, kicked and heelpalmed for guests. Every baby bird was by then a screeching hawk when she wanted to be. It felt very 21st century. Now, a few weeks later, I notice I feel a little more confident of my physical position in the world.

The funniest thing is that I have begun to watch fights in movies with a critical eye. Why are they always rolling around on the ground and breaking chairs over each other, I think to myself, when a nice clean kick to the groin would end the whole thing?

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