How the Horse Stance Works in Women's Self Defense

Video Transcript

"I have these 2 fine gentlemen with me to show you, now watch what happens. I'm going to get into my horse stance, feet out, heels behind my toes, I'm going to come down and put my fist back next to my side. Shaun is going to try and push me over that way. Okay Shaun go for it, give me a good push. I feel the pressure on the outside of my foot and that's what is preventing me from going over. Okay thank you very much. I also can not be pulled. Louis come on over, grab this arm right here, you're going to try and pull me towards that wall. Here we go, again the pressure is going from the outside of my feet and apparently it's doing more magic than I asked to do because it made him fall over. Little girl, big guys lots of potential and power. Here's the other thing; this is what happens if you don't stand in your horse stance. Let's have Shaun stand right where I'm standing, come on over here and Louis can you just push him, try and topple him over, just push him. Shaun was easily moved because he was not in the horse stance. Just to make sure that we weren't tricking you do it again. Or why don't you do it, why don't you stand, don't let Shaun push you over and try your hardest. As you can see, if you're in a horse stance it's like security, you are not going to be pulled anywhere, you are not going to be pushed anywhere. The last thing I want to show you about the horse stance is that it will get you out of the grasp of an attacker. Now this is really cool, don't blink you might miss it. So, let's say I'm standing and all the sudden Shaun or Louis, someone comes and bear hugs me from behind to take me away to god knows where and I am scared. So I get bear hugged from behind, do not panic. The first thing you want to do is drop into your horse stance, it's simple as that. Ready 1, 2, 3. What happened? I slipped underneath his grip, I could of stomped on his toes and his center of balance, center of gravity came forward so that he was off balance and after that there's a bunch of things that you can do and then you can get away. Alright so that's the horse stance."