Empowerment: no more abused women & children
Empowerment: freeing the inner child and the outer woman
Situations or better yet characterizations or characters within life that should NEVER exist in today's world. These characterizations / characters exist only to feed some peoples egos because they need to hurt, belittle, intimidate or control others in order to feel good about them selves. These characters I am talking about are abused women and children. That's right women and children who seem to live in a domain where they are sexually, physically and psychologically abused with great regularity and frequency. There are always great rationalizations as to why this is acceptable.
In addition to debunking the myth that women are somehow responsible for male violence against them, the CSSD program also dispels another myth: that women are incapable of defending themselves against a male aggressor/attacker. We know from crime reports that women who have the highest success rate in escaping sexual assault are those who use a combination of early verbal and physical resistance. Men often test a woman's boundaries, both verbally and physically, to determine whether or not she will prove an easy victim. Crime reports verify that women who are aware, assertive and who set verbal and physical boundaries have an excellent probability of avoiding or escaping from would-be attackers. Role-playing realistic self defense scenarios with properly trained instructors allows women to gain invaluable experience in setting verbal and physical boundaries under stressful conditions. It is a documented fact that training of this kind has enabled would-be crime victims to break out of the normal "freeze response" and take effective action when attacked. Taking personal responsibility for your safety is one of the most empowering things you can do for yourself, and this is what the program at CSSD is about. Our womens only program topics include:
• Awareness
• Intuition
• Setting Boundaries
• Assertiveness and Confrontation Skills
• Self Defense in Various Environments
• Legal Issues in Self Defense
• Advantages/Disadvantages of Various Weapons
• Common Sense Self Defense
That's where CSSD/SC comes in. I feel it is my duty to empower women and children with the abilities and mantra of "we have every right to self defense", "we have every right to be safe within our persons", and "we have every right to fight back"…and the last "we have every right to defend ourselves including kill those trying to harm us"
Common Sense Self Defense gives women and children the strength of mind, of character and body to survive and do the right thing. Let me state now that the strength and / or wisdom garnered from the Martial arts might be to just leave the situation, the strength and wisdom might be to call the authorities, the strength and wisdom might be to actually fight back or any combination of these things.
Women and children have a strange concept of love, I've heard it many times: I couldn't hurt the person I love EVEN if that person is trying to hurt me or actually hurting me. Now isn't that a strange perception of how life works. And I guarantee that abusers not only count on it they somehow turn it all around to the victims saying "you made me do this"...or "look at what happened BECAUSE you did this!" "You know its ONLY because he or she loves me so much that I get hurt!" Excuse me? Not on my watch it's not happening. I'm not going to tolerate that!
What kind of tools? You say there are no tools or knives designed for women and or children? Wrong! Master and Hall of Fame, Bram Frank designed a tool just for women . Guys will carry something that's awkward or uncomfortable because its a alleged great tool: women? If it doesn't feel right they don't care if it works, they won't carry it. If it won't fit in their bras or panties I guarantee they won't carry it.
What kind of training do we teach? The kind of training that uses gross motor skill action, instinctive and survival instinct actions to make it viable within actual combat or interpersonal situations. This is NOT rocket science. Simple actions and motions that any person regardless of size or strength can do: Simple Actions and motions that shut the bad guy down and free our users to live a life without fear or abuse. Martial arts applied properly: for when this is done, then women and children will listen and be willing to train longer and learn more complicated things about combat and all because you have empowered them, given them truth, freedom and safety.
Say goodbye to the animal called an abused woman or child: on my watch those animals are about to become extinct!