How to Block Punches in Women's Self Defense

"Now that you have some strikes under your belt, let me teach you how to block in case one of those strikes are actually directed towards you. I'm going to teach you blocks number 1 and 2, so let's get into it. Get into your horse stance; feet apart, knees bent, knees out, back straight and fists at your side. Now, picture this I have a very frozen big bowl of ice cream in front of me, I've got an ice cream scoop in both hands. Now what I want you to do is stick your right ice cream scooper into the ice cream and scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop and fling it on that wall. Very good! Okay, bring that one back. Time for this one; stick your left ice cream scooper in the bowl and scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop and fling it on that wall. Okay again, so that's 1 and 2, 1 and 2. Now let's try the block from the side. I'm going to do this for you so that you can see how far away to do the block from your body, because if you do the block too closely what happens? If there was a punch coming at you, wouldn't it already be at your chest? Yes, so it has to be out a little farther. But if you go out too far, what good is that going to do, right? Your power is too far away from you and that's hardly going to reflect anything. So what you want to do is put it just like this in front of you and then scoop out. So it's not here, it's not here, it's right here."