How to Strike a Male Attacker in Women's Self Defense

"I'm going to teach you how to make a fist and throw a strike, it's called the hammer strike. Now I have my handsome assistant right here to demonstrate for you. So let's get into our horse stance. Horse stance please, feet apart, knees bent, heels kicked out, knees kicked out. Now, let's show our hands to everyone at home, open your hands. Now, you want to curl your fingers down as if you're holding a pen, alright now once those are curled down take your thumbs and bring them across your other four fingers. Your thumb holds your fingers in tight, so now you have a tight fist. It's not going to break any fingers, your fingers are all in tact, so remember roll your fingers down like a burrito, thumb comes across. Now that are thumbs are securely across the other four fingers let's bring it back into our horse stance, all the way back. Let's make sure that our shoulders are back and our back is straight and our fists are right here. Now, hammer strike, this is very, very good for you because it is one of the strikes least likely to injure a beginner, someone that's never ever thrown a punch before. Think about this; you know when you're swimming like freestyle, think about swinging your arm above you. So let's bring our arm and our fist near our ear and we're going to bring down all the way over head and down as we're playing whackamo. Okay, that's a good description, right. Pull your fist back, let's do it with the left hand. All the way near your ear, bring it up and around and play whackamo. Again, right and left. Good! So that's an over head hammer strike, I'm going to teach you one more. This one is called the side hammer strike and this is important for you to know when I teach you a choke release maneuver later on. So you want to bring your fist to your opposite ear, so bring your fist to your opposite ear and then you're going to extend out very nice. This is obviously directed to the side of someone's head. Bring that back, let's put the other hand up and extend out. Very nice! Now, doing these moves means nothing unless you do a chi-eye. What's a chi-eye you ask. It's actually your breath and your power. Without breath you have no power. You internal power is called your chi and to make your chi strong you have to breath, you have to chi-eye. Now, you might feel funny making a chi-eye in the beginning because you're saying the work chi-eye, but really what you're doing is grabbing your power from inside and pushing it out through your strike. Watch, without a chi-eye...with a chi-eye... Notice the difference. So that is your making a fist, your hammer strike and your chi-eye."