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Summary: Parking lots can be dangerous places traveling women. Learn safety ideas for parking lot situations from a martial arts instructor in this free self defense video.
Darryl Johnson has been training students in martial arts for 16 years. He is trained in Krava Maga, Muay Thai, and Jiu-Jitsu and has a fighting school in Sandy, Utah. Darryl trains...read more
"In this series, we're going to talk about some things women can do to keep themselves safe while traveling or when their out and abroad. One of the key areas where attacks often occur is in parking lots. In this case we have an outdoor parking lot. One of the things that you can do to make yourself a little safer is always park underneath a light if it's going to be dark when you leave. You also want to make sure that as you come in, you check your car, you would look underneath it, look in the back seat, those kind of things. Underground parking lots pose a different kind of a problem because there always have limited lighting and that's a very common scene for attacks. They're often very deserted and since they're under ground the public at large doesn't have clear view. In addition to the parking under a light one of the things you can do to protect yourself is try to find a closed circuit TV camera that will have your vehicle in frame. They're usually posted on the building walls, sometimes from the light posts themselves. And that will help to make sure that if something happens that it's recorded or more importantly that the criminal will see the camera and avoid attacking anybody that's in the field of view. It's also important to remember that the camera, it may not be real and it may not be monitored which means it may be running a feed to a recording device but it's probably is nobody actually watching at the time. So if you're attacked and you're on camera, there's no guarantee you're going to have someone come out and rescue you."
eHow Article: Safety Ideas for Parking Lots