Musings

[wyvernfriend]

Today the murderer of Nichola Sweeney was jailed for life, Nichola was killed in a random attack by a guy who was quite disturbed. No problem here, her friend was attacked at the same time... she says that she has lingering problems with helplessness. If I was her (trite I know but I have to say this) I would be doing self defence classes and

Comments

[eng_monkey]

I know it is a little condesending, but the best self defence is common sense!
Self Defence can give you a false sense of security, but will do fuck all when someone is holding a knife, or in my case a syringe to your throat. You WILL stand there and endure what they throw at you.
Of all the self defence classes I've seen/been to few of them had any 'real-life' scenarios! i.e. a small woman being wrestled from behind by a bigger, more aggressive man.
All the courses seemed to take a 'light-handed' approach to the subject...

I'll stop now, I'm just being cynical.
Do take up the self defence course if you wish, it could be fun and you could meet friends!

[wyvernfriend]

I'm not talking personally here, but if I felt that IF I was afraid of being helpless in a situation I would learn self defence. The other attacked girl was talking about how she felt helpless, I couldn't deal with feeling like that all the time, personally. (some martial arts friends of mine decided years ago that I needed to know some ways of self defence and roleplaying has added some other clues)

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[eng_monkey]

Oh okay, misinterpreted the whole thing. I was saying that even though I knew and was practicing martial arts at that time, I still had that helpless feeling. I don't know if you remember, but I avoided town for about 2 weeks after that.

Running is always good. :)

[wyvernfriend]

*Hugs* I forgot that incident *Blush* It's not always easy to know what you would do in an incident, but trying to make sure you have some sort of idea helps.