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SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR WOMEN ON TODAY’S VIOLENT CAMPUS

IT is Labor Day and soon all elementary, high school and college campuses will be teeming with children, teens, and young adults. This, then, will be the first of 6 postings, each one of which will address one or more of the many crucial areas of survival and safety skills for students of all ages. This inaugural posting will deal with Fighting Arts (Winology) for Women on our modern college campuses.

STEP #1: BE A TOUGH TARGET AND GRADUATE THE SCHOOL OF WINOLOGY.

THERE is nothing hard about making yourself into a Tough Target. It is simple; it is doable, and yet it is probably the most crucial step you can take to defeat a potential attacker.

Ø What do I mean by a Hard (or Tough) Target? Simply and concisely put, a Tough Target is a person (a “TT” can be a male or female child, teen, adult or a senior citizen) who emits strong signals, either through body and/or verbal language, stance, the way he or she carries him or herself, that communicates to a predator that he or she will not be an easy mark, free lunch, or a path of least resistance. Since the great majority of attackers do not wish to fight and are looking for an easy mark, in 98% of cases, the Bad Guy will not even try to test the Tough Target.

How do I become a Hard or Tough) Target? You can check out most of my past and future blogs and learn about the 4 A’s (Awareness, Assessment, Anticipation and Action), body language, etc. I advocate cultivating an Assertive Personality and work, if you have to, at being determined to walk with confidence (even if you don’t feel confident), sweep your surroundings with your eyes, and to resist “testing (the predator may ask you a question, try to flick (imaginary) dandruff off your shoulder, will try to enter your Personal Safety Zone (within 2 to 3 feet) without invitation. The campus social or date rapist, or worse, the pure predator, is looking for a student with a Passive Personality who appears distracted, unobservant, her head down, eyes diverted, feet close together. When “Tested,” the Passive woman does not protest, may not verbalize at all. She is actually defeated before the attack even begins. Many potential rapist will avoid the Aggressive (Personality/AP), who strides with her head up, makes direct and challenging eye-to-eye contact and goes ballistic verbally, using vile and depreciated language at the potential attacker. Ironically, though, this (Aggressive Personality) woman will often humiliate and challenge the potential attacker to such a degree that some men/boys have attacked this type woman because she has escalated his emotions, “raised the stakes,” and compromised his manhood.

Ø Profile the Bad Guy: Check out past and future postings for more on how to profile a possible attacker.

Ø Trust Your Gut Feelings: Your instincts represent about 250 million years of evolution making the hair on the back of your neck stand up, an Inner Voice screaming out at you to “Quick, get the hell out of here!” Your instincts are hardly ever wrong. Trust them.

Ø First In/First out: Bad guys have an attack philosophy and First In/First Out is it. They will often attack when you are first going in to a place or when you are first coming out. That is when your guard is down.

Ø BREATHE DON’T SCREAM: Nine out of ten people freeze when first attacked. They do not breathe, and, therefore, there is no oxygenated blood flowing to their brains. Can’t think. Can’t talk. Can’t survive!

Ø Verbalize and Control Your Space: Tough Targets always have something to say, start to plan what to say and do when they first notice they are being watched. Nobody is allowed to enter their Personal safety Zone (PSZ) without a fight.

NEXT BLOG POSTING: Everything you need to know about campus dangers. Date Attacks, Alcohol related situations and excellent Escape and Evasion Techniques.

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I introduced
the concept of Winology in my opening posting with
true stories about one of my adventures as a state parole agent as well as some
heroism of one of the women from one of my Self Defense For Women classes who
had been violently attacked. Now I thought would be a good time to relate the
stories to the phenomenon of raw violence and what you can
learn about not only surviving it but even prevailing against it.

In other words,
The Basics of Threat Management Skills. Keep in mind, what follows is The
Basics in relationship to the abovementioned stories and illustrations
only. In the next few posts will be a myriad of tips, guidelines, principles,
skills, strategies and techniques designed to arm you, your family, friends
and/or children against violence in almost a hundred various specific areas
of threat (Domestic Terrorism; Domestic Violence; Home Invasions; Counter-Bullying;
Counter Child Abductor Strategies and Techniques; The Fighting Arts For Children;
Teens; Women; Men and/or Seniors, et al.)

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With
Wonderful Daily Winology Classes In –

• Safety
  and Survival Skills For Women.
• Advanced
  Fighting Arts For Men and Women.
• Avoidance
  and Preventive Techniques.
• Escape
  and Evasion Techniques and Strategies For Children (Against Predators, Abductors,
  et al.).
• The
  Psyche Of Survival: Crucial Mental Conditioning and Toughness.
• Spontaneous
  Knife Defense: Surviving a Close Quarter Edged Weapon Attack.
• Practical
  Ground Avoidance and Ground Escapes: The Grappling-Arts That
  Can Save Your Life Now!
• Home
  Invasions: Domestic Counter-Terrorism Strategies and Techniques.
• Tactical
  Communications: The Mastery of Words That Can Assure Your Survival
  In the Modern, Violent World.
• Counter-Bullying
  Strategies and Techniques For Children and Teens.
• Mastering
  The Art Of Being A Courage Coach For Your Children.
• The
  Fighting Arts For Seniors.
• Managing
  and Surviving Workplace Violence.
• Managing
  and Surviving School Violence For Students.
• Managing
  and Surviving School Violence For Teachers.
• Threat
  Management Techniques For Entertainment Security Staff.
• Action
  Fighting Arts : A Total Threat Management Training System.
• Your
  Own Special Class(es) By Request.
• Light
  The Fuse: You are Already Hard-Wired For Violence. Ignite
  the Fuse, If You Dare.
• Survival
  Skills For Women On Today’s College Camp
• And
  Too Many Other Courses To Mention Here.

What do we mean by The School Of Winology, you ask? Truth is – as you may have already surmised – there is no bucolic campus spread out invitingly on the edge of some big city, and, if you try to Map Quest it, you will find it not. If you try to look up The School Of Winology, or, as I sometimes like to call it – Winology State University – on the Internet, you might only find:

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Detailed Description
of What we Are all About

IN TODAY’S
MAD and often wicked world along comes Action
Against Violence, your reliable site for articles, essays and free-flowing
discussions, all designed to make you and your family safer. You won’t
find hyperbole here. But you will find key principles and tenets of The
Fighting Arts, a tight cluster of state-of-the-arts threat
management skills and techniques designed for ordinary citizens and
extraordinary law enforcement, military or security personnel who need to avoid
and/or overcome potential or real violence.

Whether you be the concerned
parent of a five year-old child, a senior citizen in a time when crimes against
the elderly are on a sharp incline, or, for that matter, any man or woman in
between, you can find a variety of suggestions on one or more of the following
survival skills:

• KID ESCAPE
  – Escape and Evasion skills against predators and potential abductors
  for boys and girls from aged 5 to 13.
• Self
  Defense For Teenagers.
• The Fighting
  Arts For Women.
• Beyond
  60 – Self Defense For Seniors.
• Managing
  Violence in the Workplace.
• Verbal
  De-Escalation and Defusing Techniques.
• And much,
  much more—