Cotton’s Class Notes

Classroom Notes

In my classes we talked about all things martial arts and self-defense and what you are going to be reading since you cannot come to my actual class for your education in self-defense, I will write things that can educate you in a very positive way that will educate, challenge, and entertain you. For decades, I have wanted to take my message to a bigger audience, but now I felt the timing was just right for the world and myself. Truth is, I did not know how to get from A to Z.

Not knowing where this idea would go, I asked one of my students to start taking notes during her class. From that day on, I started to accumulate notes that have now been refined into the text you are going to be reading and learning from. We are making good use of the Internet to travel electronically all over the world in an instant and reach out to as many women and girls as we can. We want to spread a very no-nonsense message: and that is, there is a way to end violence against women once and for all that has not been accepted world wide yet.

My focus is on training women to use their body, mind, and spirit to hurt their attackers so badly that they have to be rushed to a hospital for immediate medical attention. I do not teach women to negotiate with their attacker or try to beg and plead for their life, just like someone would do who has no other options. Of course, I include in my training and in the text herein some tricks that will lubricate the glide path to insuring that the attacker winds up horizontal on the ground. I want women to have a well trained advantage over their attacker and they will be taught that the secret is them training for years to come, not a couple of months. Said another way, it is time for girls and women to get some skin in the game.

This point has a decidedly political point of view in that rape and murder by a few males manages to frighten and control the masses of women who hear, see, and read the horrific stories that happen to untrained women. To stop violence against women we have learned that the authorities and legislators support a system that allows every rapist and murder or rape at least one woman before they start looking for them. In my book, that is one too many. For that to happen, every girl, every woman must learn and practice martial arts and self-defense like nothing they have ever done before in order to master these lessons and philosophies that I will be teaching to women and girls only.

The decidedly political view that I take is realizing that governance is just a few, ruling the many. I am turning that on its head and making the women I train, when challenged in real street fights to send back a message out to the world for rapists and murders that a new way of thinking about ending violence against women is now on the scene. That means to me a new ground of being, that I am standing on that says the following: I want women who read this message to talk to other women and girls about joining them and becoming team members who study and practice this training together for years to come. In other words I want them to engage in this self-defense training activity in a collaborative way. What does collaborative mean, let me tell you: it is an effort where women and girls will work together in an intellectual endeavor. In other words, this is not one girl or woman going by herself to a martial arts dojo, taking a class and then going back home and going to bed. No, what is going to happen is girls and women will form their on support groups that will help each other show up for a meeting where the primary and only subject will be talking about and practicing self-defense. Any traction that this training will have is going to be because women and girls made it into their own tapestry. One girl or woman doing this by her self will not be as long lasting or powerful in the life of the women who start their training. Just remember this is a secret you keep for all of your life, only women and girls allowed.

A little bit about www.Protecttheroses.com is this: the next thing I know I am talking to a computer guy who is telling me about You Tube and how all that works. I knew about web sites and I had an idea or two about them and so I put You Tube and my website together and the world of martial arts education for women and girls is going to be changed for the better. Buddha says: “Be the change you want to see.” I hope you will study these videos for all your lifetime and pass them on to your daughters and nieces.

I will provide a new You Tube offering on Tuesday and Fridays that will hopefully get you educated and motivated to guide your thoughts going toward long term martial arts training that I am offering. In this way, you can get an education and have a lot of fun with your girl friends. I do want you to build a team of supportive girl friends that will back your efforts to learn this work. What I will be writing about will be like you being in a class that I was teaching over these last thirty years.
It will be a long-term guidance into my system of thinking and training. It will be as close as you can get to my classes, and in fact it could be better, because you can train according to your schedule and convenience.
I hope you read and re-read these notes from my class and let the information seep into your mind, body, and spirit. I urge you to re-read them at least ten times each. I hope that you will watch the videos over and over again. When you realize the years of brainwashing the average female lives through everyday of her life you can understand why I ask you to re read over and over again the lessons that I have prepared for you.

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Not knowing where this idea would go, I asked one of my students to start taking notes during her class. From that day on, I started to accumulate notes that have now been refined into the text you are going to be reading and learning from. We are making good use of the Internet to travel electronically all over the world in an instant and reach out to as many women and girls as we can. We want to spread a very no-nonsense message: and that is, there is a way to end violence against women once and for all that has not been accepted world wide yet.

My focus is on training women to use their body, mind and spirit to hurt their attackers so badly that they have to be rushed to a hospital for immediate medical attention. I do not teach women to negotiate with their attacker or try to beg and plead for their life, just like someone would do who has no other options. Of course, I include in my training and in the text herein some tricks that will lubricate the glide path to insuring that the attacker winds up horizontal on the ground. I want women to have a well trained advantage over their attacker and they will be taught that the secret is them training for years to come, not a couple of months. Said another way, it is time for girls and women to get some skin in the game.

This point has a decidedly political point of view in that rape and murder by a few males manages to frighten and control the masses of women who hear, see, and read the horrific stories that happen to untrained women. To stop violence against women we have learned that the authorities and legislators support a system that allows every rapist and murder or rape at least one woman before they start looking for them. In my book, that is one too many. For that to happen, every girl, every woman must learn and practice martial arts and self-defense like nothing they have ever done before in order to master these lessons and philosophies that I will be teaching to women and girls only.

The decidedly political view that I take is realizing that governance is just a few, ruling the many. I am turning that on its head and making the women I train, when challenged in real street fights to send back a message out to the world for rapists and murders that a new way of thinking about ending violence against women is now on the scene. That means to me a new ground of being, that I am standing on that says the following: I want women who read this message to talk to other women and girls about joining them and becoming team members who study and practice this training together for years to come. In other words I want them to engage in this self-defense training activity in a collaborative way. What does collaborative mean, let me tell you: it is an effort where women and girls will work together in an intellectual endeavor. In other words, this is not one girl or woman going by herself to a martial arts dojo, taking a class and then going back home and going to bed. No, what is going to happen is girls and women will form their on support groups that will help each other show up for a meeting where the primary and only subject will be talking about and practicing self-defense. Any traction that this training will have is going to be because women and girls made it into their own tapestry. One girl or woman doing this by her self will not be as long lasting or powerful in the life of the women who start their training. Just remember this is a secret you keep for all of your life, only women and girls allowed.

A little bit about www.Protecttheroses.com is this: the next thing I know I am talking to a computer guy who is telling me about You Tube and how all that works. I knew about web sites and I had an idea or two about them and so I put You Tube and my website together and the world of martial arts education for women and girls is going to be changed for the better. Buddha says: “Be the change you want to see.” I hope you will study these videos for all your lifetime and pass them on to your daughters and nieces.

I will provide a new You Tube offering on Tuesday and Fridays that will hopefully get you educated and motivated to guide your thoughts going toward long term martial arts training that I am offering. In this way, you can get an education and have a lot of fun with your girl friends. I do want you to build a team of supportive girl friends that will back your efforts to learn this work. What I will be writing about will be like you being in a class that I was teaching over these last thirty years.
It will be a long-term guidance into my system of thinking and training. It will be as close as you can get to my classes, and in fact it could be better, because you can train according to your schedule and convenience.
I hope you read and re-read these notes from my class and let the information seep into your mind, body, and spirit. I urge you to re-read them at least ten times each. I hope that you will watch the videos over and over again. When you realize the years of brainwashing the average female lives through everyday of her life you can understand why I ask you to re read over and over again the lessons that I have prepared for you.

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Notes From My Class

Classroom Notes.
Don’t Push the Push, Don’t Pull the Pull.
Distance Speed and Position.
Eight Doors of the Octagon.
Less Than a Second.
Reducing the focal plane to increase the penetration
What does one size fits all mean in my class?
What happens behind the curtain of a self-defense class?
What Is A Belief?
What is his normal reaction time when you counter attack?
Why do men think they are invincible against women?
Why Study Forms, Hyungs, and Poomsa?
Glossary of Protect the Roses.com Training Terms

I have cultivated this list of training terms years before there was a thing called computers.  It now is much longer and has very important things that you need to know about if you are going to study with me. The more you keep your attention on these terms, the easier all the rest of what I have to teach you will be. I would read it at least ten times, minimum.

Good Luck,

Cotton Batte

Glossary of Protect the Roses.com Training Terms

 By Cotton Batte

I have cultivated this list of training terms years before there was a thing called computers. It now is much longer and has very important things that you need to know about if you are going to study with me. The more you keep your attention on these terms, the easier all the rest of what I have to teach you will be. I would read it at least ten times, minimum.

Good Luck,

Cotton Batte

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  1. Aikido: Known as the gentle way. Created by Master Oyshiba in Japan during the 1930's. This art evolved from his mastery of Jujitsu and Nijitsu. This work is about never resisting the greater force but to go with it at all times.
  1. Amazon: A member of a nation of women warriors reputed to have lived in Scythia and various other countries. Any vigorous, aggressive woman is written about in detail. A woman who will, with her training, fight to protect herself and her loved ones. An Amazon is a woman of any size or shape. I highly recommend Ms. Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s book: The Encyclopedia of Amazons as a way of getting a fuller education of women warriors from antiquity.
  1. Anchor-Ripper: A Protect the Roses .com technique designed to effectively rip one or more fingers off of an attacker's hand when they try to choke a woman.
  1. As: This word has big significance to Protect the Roses.com students because it reminds us to perform the techniques we learn and use all at once. The techniques are taught one, two, three and could mislead trainers and women into thinking that step by step performance is what Protect the Roses .com teaches. It isn’t! The difference between "As" and actually performing the techniques one, two, three is the way that time (or speed) is manipulated to the advantage of the student. Students must learn that the saving and manipulation of time is critical to the success of her technique. Because, it always gives her a big edge every time.
  1. Attacker: A person who is committed to harming a woman or girl physically or mentally, or spiritually or all three at one time.
  1. Back foot drag: When attacking an attacker while in back stance, the rear leg is moved forward to insure perfect balance first, before the front foot moves at all. Wrist release is a good example of when we recommend using back foot drag. It is the student’s responsibility to insure they have perfect balance at all times.
  1. Balance: A stable state of being characterized by cancellation of all forces by equal opposing forces. An influence or force tending to produce equilibrium.
  1. Bojutsu: Stick fighting from the Japanese Martial arts school of strategy.
  1. Boxer’s Stance: A crouched stance that affords a woman optimum balance and control while developing power and delivering that power to her attacker's vital spots. The elbows and chin being tucked into the body and the arms blasting away from the centerline of the body characterize Boxer’s stance. The particular stance that is taught to Protect the Roses .com students is only one of many that can be learned.
  1. Bullwhip: The metaphor of the bullwhip is designed and used to clarify to the student how the body can be used to develop and deliver power that is then multiplied by the torque of the legs, arms, and hips. The fists and feet are trained to crack like the tip of a bullwhip so as to increase penetrating power of the Xi.
  1. Carried by Six: It is better to be tried by twelve strangers than to be carried by six relatives. One must not hesitate at the moment of attack to make the decision that one is willing to fight to the death in order to protect oneself. To be unwilling to fight back for fear of possible incarceration means that one is out of control of their own life. Making decisions of being ready to live and ready to die makes for a bold and powerful life. P.T.R..com students learn in time to have the willingness to act out on these decisions make them dangerous to anyone who would attack them. We train women to be dangerous to the men who would attack them. We do not teach women to negotiate with any attacker, but to attack them instead and destroy them.
  1. Centerline Theory: From the Wing Chun Kung Fu School, teaches us that while punching, kicking or blocking from the center of one's body, it maximizes the potential for stopping an attacker’s attempts to hurt you. Conversely, the competitive edge of blocking, punches and kicks is that in seeing "only one punch or kick that is not of this system informs one about what to expect next in terms of attack style. In other words knowing the style of the fighter forewarns the student about what is coming next. If you recognize it, what comes next cannot surprise you. Centerline theory teaches that the silhouette should be watched as much as the chest and hips because that will tell one how to extrapolate the path to a target without having to look directly at it. In other words, knowing what the overall body is doing tells you what it can and can’t do next. Centerline theory teaches the more direct the attack, the faster and the more powerful the attack. Therefore use Centerline theory to teach you how to fight.
  1. Centrifugal Forces: We use centrifugal force in the dojo (school) to explain how easy it is to use an attacker's weight and intention against them. Knowledge of how and what centrifugal force is, is an asset in defeating an attacker In combat, centrifugal force is powerful force that makes a ball connected to a string lift up in the air as it is spun around in a circle. This force is so powerful that it can make a ball fly away when the string is released from the grip of the person holding it.
  1. Chi or Qi: The breath of life, the internal force. The energy of the body to protect, strengthen, and defend itself. A force that moves throughout the body on command of the body and mind. A force inside the body that can be directed by the mind to travel outside of the body when kicking, punching, or blocking and penetrate the body of the attacker
  1. Combat: To fight against; to oppose in battle, to physically resist.
  1. Connect: To use points of your body as leveraging points which will enable any student to multiply their physical power. To connect the lower part of the body with the upper part of the body. To strengthen the mind, body, and spirit is the ultimate goal of martial arts students.
  1. Cross: A punch thrown from the rear side of boxer's stance toward the attacker's body. This punch must cross in front of the body and into the target to qualify as a cross. Example: "She threw a right cross to the attacker's nose and knocked them down and out'".
  1. Decision: The act of reaching a conclusion or making up one's mind. See One Decision.
  1. Distance: The amount of space between the attacker and the woman defending herself, one of the big three that must be controlled in order to win a moment of a fight.
  1. Dojo: The building or room where one studies martial arts or self-defense. A Japanese word in origin meaning school or "group".
  1. Drive: Used to clarify the importance of using hip drive propulsion when punching, blocking, or kicking. The use of the word "drive" is a metaphor for the determination committed to winning, reaching, or accomplishing a stated goal.
  1. Drop: Moving the body downward as fast as you can. This means that you do not jump up first in order to move downward. A drop is designed to add your body's gravitational weight to whatever technique you use against your attacker.
  1. Drop Turn 90.5: A turning movement used when performing "Do you Wanna’ Dance?" This technique gets the hips and shoulders to move in unison so as to move the man's containing arm enough to move within its seeming constriction. One moment the woman is standing with her arms at her side and doing nothing, the next moment she is in horse stance. She enacts a drop turn 90.5 in moving the feet into a perpendicular horse stance, improving her stance and destroying the attacker's stance by sweeping one of his two support legs out from under him. As the woman is destroying the attacker's balance, she locks into a good and safe balance. While thrusting the knife deep into his throat all the way to the hilt of the knife, she is in a perfect horsestance.
  1. Escape and Avoidance: The first rule of self-defense is to make and keep yourself safe while under attack. The second rule is to not get caught or captured doing what ever it takes to make and keep you safe. If this means that one must escape from the scene of a streets self-defense encounter, then do that. If it means that one maneuvers the attacker into a situation where they can hit or counter-attack where there is no witnesses then do that too. However, if one chooses to turn oneself in to the legal system (only upon the advice of legal council) then do so with a clear head and with some degree of assurance that one's basic civil rights will be somewhat protected and observed. Woman will spend more time in prison for an act of self-defense (that was not of their choice or making) than do men. An example is a woman who is battered for years until she kills her batterer to stop him from killing her, only to spend years in prison. Our nation's laws were written and are largely enforced by men. The decision to escape and avoid capture, arrest and incarceration is for each woman to make. If someone allows another to kill her, the legal system's promise of "blind justice" or equal protection under the law won't matter because they will be dead. Self-defense means one thing: staying alive and being alive to fight and to live another day.
  1. Exaggeration Principal: Often when teaching a student how to make a movement, she will not be able to find that imaginary line that she needs to be on. When the trainer notices that a student is not able to perform as requested, it is because the student thinks that she is performing correctly and does not understand where she has gone wrong. How does a trainer make this point clear? By having the student go past the point (or the line) they have been asked to go to. The secret to the exaggeration principal, is to ask the student to move beyond the intended line that you wanted them to move to by a big margin. What happens is the "mental envelope" of the student will be broken through and they will understand what she thought and felt was enough, wasn't right. A pitched battle with the outcome not known. P.TR. .com teaches women not to fight but to strike quickly and repeatedly. The contextual difference is immense. To fight means to willingly get into a conflict where the makers are going to give and receive energy of a negative nature. Protect the Roses .com teaches strike first and quite often until the attacker is stopped.
  1. Fire Babies: A woman is "out of her body" and not able to move in a way that will make the techniques flow easily and quickly at her targets. These "fire babies" are willing and sometimes able to defend themselves, however, it is the quality and consistency of their technique that is doubted. Having a willingness to fight and being able to fight very effectively is two different things. Learning how to fight has nothing to do with being angry or expressing anger in any way shape or form.
  1. Fist: The hand, when rolled twice from the ends of the fingertips and the thumb being pressed (at a 90 degree angle) against the center of the first and second knuckle joints, becomes a fist. The body's chi flows through two mentally co-joined holes in the dead center of the two big knuckles of the hand when closed into a fist. This energy, then flows directly into the body of the person who is being hit.
  1. Focus: A point to which something converges or diverges. Forging the power of the body, mind and spirit, to the point of a pin, a martial artist can punch, kick or block with the power of a person twice their size and strength. Focus is the secret of the marital arts. Imagine a four-walled pyramid (as seen in the Egyptian dessert and all of the invisible power swirling around its base. Imagine having the ability to direct all this power at the bottom of the pyramid to the top. If all this power, under pressure were to come out of the top of the pyramid would be tremendously forceful. The above example is an example of focus: the big and undirected to the small and directed.
  1. Fulcrum: The point or support on which a lever turns. A martial artist is always seeking the point of the fulcrum in both themselves and their opponent's bodies.
  1. Goddess: A female deity; a woman of great beauty or grace. A woman adored as a beauty. A spiritual entity that connotes a love for all nature. This term is not to be confused with any organized religion's view of a goddess.
  1. Grounding: Whether punching or kicking a target, a woman must lower her center of gravity so as to maximize her ability to develop and deliver power. Grounding is being certain that no matter how intently the focus is on the strife, the primary responsibility is to maintain one's balance. Grounding is felt best when the feet are flat on the ground at the moment of impacting the target.
  1. Harassment: Systematic persecution by an antagonist with annoyances or demands. Not taking no for an answer. A feeling that one is being pressured to do something that one is not naturally inclined to do.
  1. Hook: A punch thrown by either the lead or rear arm. The crook of the arm characterizes the hook so that the fist actually returns to the throwers own face. The hook is a punch that has the elbow in a chamber and aligned with the propelling of the fist. In other words the elbow, in a very straight line pushes the first to its target. The hook has as its primary targets the temple, jaw, or ribs.
  1. Horse Stance: A utility stance used in self-defense to provide stability and strength in a combat or technique-practicing situation. This positioning of the body.is characterized by squatting with the feet two shoulders width apart and parallel with each other. The back is straight and the hips are tucked in underneath the shoulder line. The head is neither turned up nor down. The arms can be positioned as necessary.
  1. Jab: A punch thrown only with the lead hand. This punch is designed to keep the opponent at bay and use the length of the arm as a controller of distance. The jab is short, fast and is used over and over again without taking a toll physically on the boxer.
  1. Jeet Kune Do: A synthesis of all the major martial arts through the work and study of Bruce Lee and by Danny Inosanto. The message of their system is there is no systematic way to fight everyone, every time. There is no proper way of performing Jeet Kune Do. This is a departure from any system to come before it meaning that the old rules have changed and works against an attacker that was never seen before its inception. Anything that does not work against an attacker must be discarded.
  1. Judo: A combat sport that evolved from Jujitsu. It was develop by Jigaro Kano in Japan in 1882. Judo employees much ground fighting, sweeps, shoulder and hip throws as well as chokes.
  1. Jujitsu: A killing art from the Ninjitsu School of Martial Arts. This art is a forebear of Judo and Aikido. It has ground fighting techniques, grappling, chokes, sweeps and takedowns.
  1. Karate: Open hand and foot fighting with no weapons. The concept of Karate is to defend and then strike. Karate is fast and simple, and anyone can learn it.
  1. Kata: A Japanese word that means form or pattern. There is a similar word when used in the art of TaeKwonDo and it is Hyung or Poomsa. Kata is performed to learn it all and to know nothing. Kata is performed to be in the moment with you, full of power and full of force. Kata is a way of getting to the truth about what one believes about themselves. Kata, hyung, or Poomsa is one path for spiritual enlightenment and harmony.
  1. Kiai (kee-iii): The kiai is a warrior's shout and the result of instantly synthesizing the spirit and the body. The kiai is an invisible weapon able to startle an attacker long enough to strike and gain the advantage. The kiai should be seen and thought of as a ball of fire that comes out of one's mouth each and every time they block, kick, or strike.
  1. Kick: The kick is the sum total of all the energy the body can develop and deliver in a single instant. A kick is an act of the body moving energy from the rear of the body towards the feet. A kick is the most devastating weapon in a martial artist's arsenal.
  1. Kill Shot: An expression that is use to draw attention to the importance of-punching on target and as hard as possible. It is important to note that at no time do we advocate killing all attackers. Protect the Roses.com advocates training to hit as hard as possible with the view that some attackers are looking to kill any woman they meet.
  1. Kung-Fu: Indirectly created perhaps, by Bodhidharma (an Indian monk and a Buddhist teacher) as an outgrowth of a series of exercises to train monks not to fall asleep during meditation practice. Fung Fu was an out growth of his work with Tai Chi Chuan Kung Fu employees kicks and sophisticated locks and punches, kicks and blocks. It is by far the most complex martial art to learn. It has been said that there was at one time at least 3,000 differing styles of Kung Fu in China.
  1. Kyosaku: A flat wooden stick that can be used to strike a student to wake them up during meditation and keep them alert. Japanese Zen Buddhists have found this stick helps the practitioner gain insight, sometimes in moments of great surprise.
  1. Lady: A woman having the refined habits, gentle manners and sense of responsibility often associated with the current culture. Or the equivalent of a gentleman who does not train ladies to be warriors, we train women to be warriors. Ladies is a term originated by the patriarchy to keep women in line and controllable. Lady defines a woman as a human being who controls her feelings and attitudes so as to take care of others at there own expense. Protect the Roses.com trainers never use the term lady because it makes them supporters of the system we are intent on destroying.
  1. Lever: A simple machine consisting of a rigid body, typically a metal bar, pivoted on a fixed fulcrum. Martial artists would say that a lever is also a leg that kicks a target.
  1. Leverage: The action of a lever. The mechanical advantage of a lever and positional advantage and power to act effectively. A woman on her back is able to lift an attacker off her hips by using her legs and hips together as a lever and a fulcrum. It is at the moment of lift off, that the woman has leverage over the attacker.
  1. Line of Attack: Between any two adversaries, there is a straight-line connecting them. This line is known as the line of attack. It is the line to not be on when the attacker makes their move. It is a straight line though that the attacker and student share.
  1. Martial Arts: The way of spiritual enrichment and education. One aspect of the Martial Arts is learning to protect the body, mind, and spirit through a physical discipline that involves blocking, punching' and kicking. But that is not all that is learned, students learn in great detail about the art of making war from beginning to the end.
  1. Matriarchy: A society where woman and men were treated and thought of as being equal in strength and power. A time in the history of our world when no cities or groups of people had implements of warfare. Women governing the state didn't dominate men. In fact, it is a false belief that matriarchy equals male oppression.  It was never true ever.
  1. Matrifocal: Term denoting that a woman holds dominant authority. The attention is focused on the family unit. The family headed by the mother and lacking a father permanently or for extended periods. Control then, is focused or centered on the mother'
  1. Matrilineal: The passage of power, of inheritance, of family name traced and descended through the mother; inheriting or determining descent through the female line.
  1. Off: Useful as a word that describes a muscle group that can strike an attacker without the slightest waste of time. A woman who has mastered the ability under pressure and not remain tense while awaiting the opportunity to attack can do a much faster job of self‑defense.
  1. On: Useful as a word to describe a woman's muscle group when she is in a state of muscular rigidity for an anticipated counter attack. To allow her body to move, her muscle group she must first relax before she can move an inch. When she is ‘on’ she is unable to move and cannot defend herself because her body is rigid.
  1. Patriarchy: A system of social organization in which descent and succession are traced through the male line. The thinking is that men are superior to women who can be successfully' abused and abused. A philosophy saying by thought, word, or deed that women are expendable and the servant's of men.
  1. Point of Origination: The point of leverage wherein the strength of a woman’s body is multiplied by her body's use of the natural starting and stopping points she imagines. She learns in her classes that this use of a point of origination makes a student aware of the need to create and maintain the same amount of distance between their attacker's hips at all times. To also designate an invisible and arbitrary spot from the floor to the bottom of her butt to touch this invisible point each time they punch or kick has been delivered making the student understand the importance of moving the hips in the exact same way each time. And legs are moved in the exact same way and for the exact same distance each and every time she punches. This fight strategy makes her consistent with distance to target, which makes her more consistent in production of power.
  1. Controlling the distance: When the hips move it is critical to gaining predictable results in developing and delivering power to a distant and moving target. The spot in space that you or your attacker occupies must be as similar in one second as they can be in the next second. For example: "he was situated two feet away from me in a crouched and ready position", or "my chest was positioned so that he could not hit me squarely." It is critical that students understand this strategy to survive and win their fights.
  1. Punch: The punch is the sum total of all the energy the body can develop and deliver in a single instant. A punch is an act of the body moving energy from the feet to the two large protruding knuckles of the fist. For effective and powerful punching, the hips must twist in the direction the punch is thrown; the legs must rise up slightly as the hips twist. No punch should be thrown that does not come from as is far away as technically possible.  Remember: the greater the driving distance of the body part that is doing the striking the better.
  1. Rape: The felony crime of forcing a female to sexual touching and intercourse. The most under reported felony crime in the world, the least prosecuted, the least time served, and the highest recidivism rate there is.
  1. Reciprocating: To give and take mutually, to move back and forth with equal amounts of power. This movement of arms, feet, and legs is essential to punch with power and balance.
  1. Reciprocity: is a mutual or cooperative exchange of power that does not destabilize the body’s balance.
  1. Reverse Punch: This is a punch that is delivered by first reversing the direction of the fist. In a classic Tae Kwon Do class the instructor would require the student to position the fist at a spot on the side center of the rib cage below the breast and a few inches above the belt. A reverse punch is the use and understanding of reciprocating power. The two fists move like pistons back and forth originating from the side center of the body to the target and back again. A reverse punch is the most powerful way to punch providing that the elbow is down and locked at the-moment of impact of target. Reverse punch is striking with the two big knuckles of the fist as the fist twists upon impact into the target. Reverse punch is taught as a snap punch that gets its multiplied power by making sure that the hips and shoulders develop power by at first going in the opposite direction of the intended punch. It's that simple.
  1. Rhythm: The regular patterned flow, the ebb and rise of movements and energy.
  1. Scoop: This term refers to using both hands to grab the testicles. When scooping it is important to avoid grabbing the attacker's penis. The two hands must go between the attacker's legs reaching through to the center of the body, grabbing the penis.
  1. Second: An artificial unit measuring a change of energy. Although we recognize that there is no such thing as time in a tangible sense, it is important to communicate effectively about an opportunity to strike in away that is understandable to the student. Protect the Roses.com teaches the concept that every second controlled in a fight leads to and supports controlling the next second of the fight. This idea is used to get students to focus intently on striking first and as many times as necessary in order to incapacitate an attacker in the first few seconds. Protect the Roses.com teaches students to be concerned about only one second of a fight at a time. Not to forget that every second that you can win is a second that he did not.
  1. Self-Defense: Defense of oneself when attacked. The right to protect oneself against violence when threatened by whatever force or means necessary. Defense of what belongs to one. Law. The right to defend against violence or threatened violence with whatever force or means are reasonably necessary is a guaranteed legal right.
  1. Sexual Assault: Any type of unwanted touching that has a sexual nature to it. Example: A man intentionally touches a woman's breast, it's sexual assault.
  1. Sexual Harassment: Unwanted touching, speaking or threatening the same against another. human being. Behavior considered offensive and of a sexual nature implied or communicated in any form. Conversation creating a tension or atmosphere that causes a person to feel threatened or uncomfortable.
  1. Stair-Step-Approach: The concept of attacking an opponent means that the first strike is far from the last one to be thrown. The attacker continues to strike until the attacker is dead or unconscious. She does not stop striking against her attacker until she is satisfied she is safe. In other words, one counter attack always leads to another.
  1. Strategy: The science or art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of large‑scale operations.
  1. Speed: Rapidity in movement, proceeding or performing is what speed is. Full, optimum, maximum speed enabling her to hit the man in the eye eyeball before he could push his knife into her throat is possible because she has superior training. Speed is one of the three elements that must be controlled in order for the woman to control a moment of a fight. In this equation, distance plus speed equals power delivered. The person who hits first is the one who hits without having any negative energy in their own body from their attacker because she beat him to the punch. Without speed, no matter what the distance, there can be no power delivered.
  1. Squish: One of the techniques Protect the Roses.com teaches women is to rip an attacker's testicles from their body when they attack. By placing their arms around her arms and attempt to carry her away or to break her back by squeezing her arms into her rib cage while bending her backwards.
  1. Stalking: The act of focusing on and attempting to talk to, spy or otherwise invade the space in anyway, against that person’s desires. Stalking, Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC) show that 7.5 million people are stalked before the age of 25 years. Studies show that stalking victims suffer higher rates of depression, anxiety and insomnia.
  1. Stances: A physical posture wherein a woman can defend herself from attack from a man.
  1. Tae Kwon-Do: The art of empty hand and foot fighting as developed by General Choi Hi 1945' Tae Kwon-Do is a synthesis of Japanese Karate and ancient Korean Tae Kwon. Tae Kwon-Do is considered as having the best leg techniques in all of martial arts.
  1. Target: A specific spot on a person’s body, which all of the woman's body, mind and spirit directs energy to.
  1. Time: is a measurement emoting a passage of mental awareness. Time doesn’t exist, yet we discuss it as if it did. Performing several body movements in one second delivers the manipulation of “time”. Time can be made to stand still with advanced martial arts training.
  1. Triangulation Theory: The basis of martial arts comes from reducing the focal point of a weapon to its smallest point so that it can have the maximum ability to penetrate a target. For this reduction of focal plane to happen, the student must first know where they are big and how they can make themselves smaller. An example is the width of the shoulders traveling down the arm to the pin point of the fist's the knuckles. The triangulation theory is to make clear that every one has plenty of unused and unfocused power within our body at any given time. So think about that for a moment.
  1. Upper Cut: A punch originating from or below a woman's waistline and traveling vertically towards an attacker's throat or jaw. This punch, can also be used to strike any target in-between groin and the throat with devastating effect. This technique is best used as in any punches that we teach when the two large knuckles of the striking fist make the primary contact.
  1. Violence: Physical force exerted for the purpose of violating, damaging, or abusing: "The essence of war is violence." The abusive or unjust exercise of power: an outrage; a wrong.
  1. Virago: A heroic and vigorous woman: a female warrior: an amazon. A bold impudent woman. A man-like or heroic woman. War: Any condition of active antagonism, or contention. Two energy fields pitted in battle against each other.
  1. Warrior: A woman who is skilled at engaging in warfare or combat; see Amazon. One engaged or experienced in battle.
  1. Water Babies: A phrase used in Protect the Roses.com to denote the woman in question is fully, "in her body" and in touch with the ability to move her body in a manner that will allow her to learn the techniques easily and quickly. These "water babies" are not ready yet to defend themselves because of their abuse by the patriarchy. These women need to be trained more on the fighting/warrior spirit aspects of the martial arts rather than relying on techniques themself.
  1. Wing Chun: A style of Kung Fu that was invented by a bean curd peddler in the 16th century named Nig Mui in 16th century, China. She was a Buddhist nun and she learned what later became Wing Chun from Yim Wing Chun. She in turn learned how to do Shaolin Temple boxing first before she created Wing Chun.
  1. Work: The transfer of energy from one physical system to another; especially, the transfer of energy to a body by the application of force. A martial arts example is when kicking, the knee is seen as the fulcrum, the leg is the lever and the body that is impacted and thus moved is the work.
  1. Yim Wang Chun: She was a Shaolin nun who invented Wing Chun Kung Fu in a monastery that she lived in. She was taught Shaolin temple boxing by monks at the temple where she lived. Wing Chun synthesized the temple boxing with the Kung Fu she was learning and created Wing Chun-Kung Fu. She had to learn how to fight because a man was attempting to force her to marry him. She learned how to use Wing Chun and she defeated the bully in hand-to-hand combat. Later, she married another man and developed what is now known as Wing Chin Kung Fu. In my opinion, Wing Chun Kung Fu is an excellent system for women and girls to learn. I teach how to punch in the Wing Chun style, but the kicks I teach are pure Tae Kwon Do.
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Ten Mistakes Men Make When Attacking Women and Girls

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Ten Mistakes Men Make When Attacking Women and Girls

  1. Rules of Warfare: Know your enemy. Without knowing what a woman knows and can do, a rapist is ignorant of his situation, but charges ahead anyway to try to do to a woman what he wants to do. So where are we in this new century of male female relationships? Has the number of women raped decreased in this new millennium? Since rape is the most under reported, under sentenced, under stay the incarceration time, it seems that world at large is not taking to the streets and demanding instant capital punishment for the rapist. I wonder how women feel about that? I wonder how women feel about having a man rape them? I bet if they could learn how to permanently stop their attacker, they would certainly give it a go and learn what ever they could.
  1. Rules of Warfare: Select the Battlefield. Look for high ground, locate free weapons and defend your body with your body. What if women, who are truly having a war waged against them by a certain subset of men, started looking more closely at the Rules of Warfare for guidance? What if they added to their already busy schedule this system that they can learn from on the Internet some serious, no holds barred techniques that could teach them how to protect themselves, no ifs, ands, or buts? What if women were taught to conduct themselves mentally like they were in a war that guided them to, in certain situations to protect themselves like they were the agents of the secret service and their job was to protect the president? Well, that is what I am saying and that is what we will be talking about at great length in the up and coming classes. Wouldn’t it be great to learn how to walk down the street knowing for certain who is behind you harmlessly and who is behind you with the intention of hurting you? Are their techniques for just that kind of a scenario? Of course there are, and you can learn it from me once you are started on this path. There is a mountain of information that I will put out at first and then I will add to it as we go.I will kick off with 40 self-defense techniques and add more to that number as we go along.  I will teach Tae Kwon Do as well as the kicks, punches and blocks. I will also teach the forms as well for those women and girls who want to really learn the martial arts. I hope there are 300 hundred million women and girls who want to learn Tae Kwon Do as well! That’s increasing the size of the army to a good number of trained students. A number of females that will definitely go into the next seven generations of women and girls, spreading out and downward as time passes us all by.
  1. Rules of Warfare: Have a plan, work the plan. Attackers believe they are invincible and never consider the possibility that a woman or girl could hurt them, so work your plan. Think about the most put upon member of society, and who is it? If you said women and girls, you are on the right track. So what are you going to do about it? I hope you take seriously this offering of mine and decide to start studying with me from where ever in the world you are living in right now. Understand that you can start today and start with purchasing for just $1, your first video from this website and you can keep it for the rest of your life. It is not as much as a cup of coffee. But I am telling you now; I want you to bring you Martial Arts journal and a pen so that you can take notes. You are going to get martial arts education from a master teacher, whether you are learning self-defense techniques or Chung Do Kwan Tae Kwon Do.
  1. “Sermonizing” Instead of Hurting: This may be hard for you to believe, but most attackers with a knife don’t attack and kill their victims with that knife instantly. Instead what crime statistics tell us is that they come up to the woman and talk to her, yell at her and tell her again and again what she is going to do for him. This is what I call “sermonizing”. During this sermon, the woman is expected to be jittery and scared and not talk. Until you really understand about men who attack women it would be a good idea if you acted that way just for fun. I say just for fun because I know what you are capable of once you learn what I have to tech you. The point about you understanding about “sermonizing” is him talking to you, or yelling at you, is a golden opportunity for you to plan your first, second and third technique. “Sermonizing” you is a really gigantic mistake, and there is no two-ways about it. The “attacker who can’t keep his mouth shut” is what this technique should be called. Because him wanting to be heard by you is a feeling that is just so compelling, so powerful and an attraction that he is totally out of control of stopping. That is why I put this mistake so close to the top of the list. It is definitely a keeper.
  1. Provides the Weapon: His knife to her throat, he hesitates and believes he could not possibly be a target; she can stop him with his own weapon. My students come to realize soon enough that men are just as brainwashed as they are about what they can and can’t do as women are, if not more so. The sooner my students confront that brainwashing and look at it for what it is, the better for them. When a man brings a weapon to an encounter with a woman he brings what I call the “game ender”. Attacking a woman with bare hands is one thing, but bringing a weapon is like bringing the one thing that can end the attacker’s life that much faster. I don’t believe in disarming an attacker because it puts the gun or knife right back into play where his associate could pick it up and use it on our student. Instead it is better for the woman or girl to look at the gun or knife for what it is: a “game ender.” I have several offerings about knife and gun reversals for your review. The best part about it is he bets his life that he is safe by brining the knife or gun to the rape meet up with you. He does not think for a minute that you would resist him in any way if he brings a knife or a gun or he would not bring it with him. Imagine his surprise when the weapon he brings turns out to be the one thing he really did no think all the way through.
  1. No touch, no control. A females’ mind, body and spirit are not controlled because this control requires her consent and agreement. What this means is that when a woman is in “full on resistance” to her attacker magic happens! Why do I say magic? Because anything we civilian’s see that we cannot explain, we call it magic.  Just because a man brings his misconceptions about women with him everywhere he goes doesn’t mean that a woman has to be his accomplice to her own rape and murder does it? A standard grab of a woman usually means that he has put his two hands on her and is either trying to drag her away with him or is going to try to do something to her on the spot. Which ever he tries to do, unconsciously, he believes that she will go along with whatever he tells her to do. I mean that is what he has seen thousands of times on TV and films. He got his education about attacking women from TV long before he actually ever did it in real life. The trick is to recognize that what I have just told you is another secret that provides you deep insight into how these men think and how they strategize about raping and murdering you.So, your attacker has some pretty serious programming going on in his head and he did not even realize it. Understand that men don’t go to rapist school where they learn all the ins and outs of being a successful rapist. They sit, instead in front of a TV and get indoctrinated about what his role in the rape of a woman is and most women get the same brainwashing as he does. So both of them go out into the world and live out their respective roles until when the two meet it is not going to be pretty for the untrained woman. They both agree to one big premise though. The woman, after a little arguing, pleading, and of course, scratching of his face, surrenders to the man. Isn’t that swell for the rapist? For very little effort at all, most men are successful at raping and then murdering women and girls. You and I are going to change that once and for all.
  1. Ignorant of women’s history (Believes all women are the same.) This is more brainwashing, and even more pervasive. Think about this for a moment. Half of our entire humanity, the creator’s of life itself, the life force that says we as a race of people would not be here if it were not for women, have very little written about women as warriors. In fact, not only is their very little written about them, what is written about them is not entirely accurate. You don’t read great stories about women as warriors either, not in the same volume as is written about men.When I am talking about women as warriors who can name even one book that you have read that is exclusively about women as warriors?  I want to introduce you to a woman who wrote a book entitled: The Encyclopedia of Amazons by Ms. Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Why I bring this up is not because it is a riveting read, because although it was, the thing that struck me about it was how very little I knew about women as warriors from antiquity to present day. It astounded me how women were every bit as capable of holding their own in battles against men, but until you actually read it, you have no idea. It is because of this huge shortage of information that exists to this day about women as warriors that both boys and girls believe quite incorrectly that women cannot be warriors.  And girls, to say the least cannot grow up to be warriors because they don’t see them anywhere in their day-to-day life. And as a result of having no women warriors to emulate girls move on the next thing to catch and hold their attention.

    But a girl’s story does not end here. Just because girls don’t see adult women dressed up in warrior’s uniforms, they, at this late date may have an older sister or mother who is in the military. And that is great but where are the stories about women as warriors written in the last 500 years? Boys and girls grow up to believe that when it comes to fighting, better leave that to the men. So without question, without reservation, boys grow up to be men who believe sincerely that women or girls cannot and will not be able to stop them when they want to rape them.

    Its all a matter of education, because if girls can learn to code,  and they are doing that right now, they can learn to fight, there is just no doubt about it. And not just do a so-so job of it either. They can learn it all and shine like a bright star. If women can dance on a beam during their floor exercises, what does that say about her balance? If girls can master the gymnastics that they can, what does that say about them performing a jump turn kick?  I don’t hope or just believe that girls can grow into adulthood as outstanding martial artists I have seen it for myself for years.

  1. General ignorance of what martial arts is: Martial arts training sharpens intellect intention, focus, confidence and physical abilities. Long term martial arts training does something for a girl or woman that collectively no other discipline on earth can do for her. Females gain the agility and toughness necessary to travel as modern day warriors. To make it far worse for the man about to be counter attacked by the trained female if he has no martial arts training, he has no clue at all about what is coming his way. What this means is: he cannot in a moment of time put together the two things that are about to put a whipping on him. Think about it for a moment. If you don’t know, that you don’t know, you, as the male are about to step into a world of hurt unlike anything you have experienced in your life.This ignorance can go really deep, really fast. He does not know that women can get martial arts training and even if they could, he does not know what her having those years of training means to him, right now.  That double whammy level of ignorance is quite profound. Think about this for a minute: he buys a bottle of cheap wine and sits under a shade tree until he sees a woman he wants to rape. Now lets say he is finished with the bottle and is a little tipsy when he decides he has spotted the right woman to rape and murder. He starts following her, not catching on to the fact that when she walks across the street at a 90-degree angle that she looks left, then right then left again and crosses the street.

    What he doesn’t notice is that for a split second, she looks at him using a soft focus eye, and then looks to the right and back to the left and she watches him move in her direction as before. No problems so far, everything is very predictable. She then, as trained by me to do, cuts across the street and waits looking back towards the direction she has walked from and can see him cutting across the street still following her. She does not look at him for longer than a millisecond and keeps on walking (though across the street) back towards the direction she was just coming from. She has one last test to put the stalker through before she is dead certain he is stalking her. She steps between two cars on her left and looks both ways and crosses the street, so that she has now made a square in the pattern of her street crossings. She is headed for the same sidewalk she was originally walking on. She walks through two cars bumpers, turns and waits for the stalker/attacker to close the distance her. There is no way that the stalker can avoid her kicks or punches she has tricked him into walking into what we say in Texas is a “box end canyon”. The only way out is to turn around and walk back across the street or else walk around the outside of the cars. She has determined through a process of elimination that his intention is to hurt her somehow. This puts her into full on fight mode. If he wants to attack her, he will have to do so with her being fully aware of whatever he tries to do. It can’t get better than that. She had a plan and worked her plan. He had no clue about what he was walking into, but she sure did and all along too.

  1. Does Not Test or Listen Rapists don’t listen or test to learn what the female in question says with her body. Our students like all martial artists have no tattoo on their forehead that says: KUNG FU BETTY. Oblivious is the word that comes to mind when I ask my self what could these guys be thinking? I will give them this though, if it were 1922 when women did not even go into the world except for groceries or to the elementary school to visit with their children’s teacher that would certainly be one thing. I can say that the rapist had an almost certain chance of being successful at selecting and raping a woman or a girl. But this is the year 2021 where thousands of women have been in the US military and have been trained in hand to hand combat. What if our rapist picked one of those women? Rapists don’t communicate or talk to women about anything except what they want to talk about. That one-way conversation does nothing but give the woman time to think and strategize about what she is going to do to this attacker. For lack of a better word I am going to say that he spends his time sermonizing with or at the woman. The problem that he creates for himself is that he has no idea what or who he is in front of in that moment. When you attack whom you don’t know you violate a rule of war called: know your enemy, since he does not even consider the woman to have the potential to be an enemy he is digging himself a grave and if he brought a weapon, that is actually his shovel.
  1. There is safety in numbers: So if a woman is alone she can be raped? Women can be lethal, anywhere and anytime with or without their girlfriends. But some rapists have said in interviews that they stay away from groups of women because the more there are of them the greater the resistance to his attack there will be. So what does he think then, only attack the single women? So all he has to do to be successful is to wait until he sees the solitary female walking to her car in the car park late at night. The only problem is that women in my classes never assume that anyone will be coming to their aid in a street attack, ever.My students are trained to look at them selves as the help that they want to come to their aid. They never for a minute think that anyone will come to their aid, which is why they studied martial arts and self-defense in the first place. They want to roam the earth free as a bird, not caring what any man tries to do to them.  My students expect men to try and take them down. Now here is the best part; years ago I had a student who said she wanted to have that physical confrontation with a man to see how she would do. She had men hit on her all the time, but she wanted the real deal, she wanted to be attacked so that she could test her abilities. So, believe it or not, the transformation will come where you will finally get your own personal test if that is what you want.
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Glossary of Protect the Roses.com Training Terms

 By Cotton Batte

I have cultivated this list of training terms years before there was a thing called computers. It now is much longer and has very important things that you need to know about if you are going to study with me. The more you keep your attention on these terms, the easier all the rest of what I have to teach you will be. I would read it at least ten times, minimum.

Good Luck,

Cotton Batte

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  1. Aikido: Known as the gentle way. Created by Master Oyshiba in Japan during the 1930's. This art evolved from his mastery of Jujitsu and Nijitsu. This work is about never resisting the greater force but to go with it at all times.
  1. Amazon: A member of a nation of women warriors reputed to have lived in Scythia and various other countries. Any vigorous, aggressive woman is written about in detail. A woman who will, with her training, fight to protect herself and her loved ones. An Amazon is a woman of any size or shape. I highly recommend Ms. Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s book: The Encyclopedia of Amazons as a way of getting a fuller education of women warriors from antiquity.
  1. Anchor-Ripper: A Protect the Roses .com technique designed to effectively rip one or more fingers off of an attacker's hand when they try to choke a woman.
  1. As: This word has big significance to Protect the Roses.com students because it reminds us to perform the techniques we learn and use all at once. The techniques are taught one, two, three and could mislead trainers and women into thinking that step by step performance is what Protect the Roses .com teaches. It isn’t! The difference between "As" and actually performing the techniques one, two, three is the way that time (or speed) is manipulated to the advantage of the student. Students must learn that the saving and manipulation of time is critical to the success of her technique. Because, it always gives her a big edge every time.
  1. Attacker: A person who is committed to harming a woman or girl physically or mentally, or spiritually or all three at one time.
  1. Back foot drag: When attacking an attacker while in back stance, the rear leg is moved forward to insure perfect balance first, before the front foot moves at all. Wrist release is a good example of when we recommend using back foot drag. It is the student’s responsibility to insure they have perfect balance at all times.
  1. Balance: A stable state of being characterized by cancellation of all forces by equal opposing forces. An influence or force tending to produce equilibrium.
  1. Bojutsu: Stick fighting from the Japanese Martial arts school of strategy.
  1. Boxer’s Stance: A crouched stance that affords a woman optimum balance and control while developing power and delivering that power to her attacker's vital spots. The elbows and chin being tucked into the body and the arms blasting away from the centerline of the body characterize Boxer’s stance. The particular stance that is taught to Protect the Roses .com students is only one of many that can be learned.
  1. Bullwhip: The metaphor of the bullwhip is designed and used to clarify to the student how the body can be used to develop and deliver power that is then multiplied by the torque of the legs, arms, and hips. The fists and feet are trained to crack like the tip of a bullwhip so as to increase penetrating power of the Xi.
  1. Carried by Six: It is better to be tried by twelve strangers than to be carried by six relatives. One must not hesitate at the moment of attack to make the decision that one is willing to fight to the death in order to protect oneself. To be unwilling to fight back for fear of possible incarceration means that one is out of control of their own life. Making decisions of being ready to live and ready to die makes for a bold and powerful life. P.T.R..com students learn in time to have the willingness to act out on these decisions make them dangerous to anyone who would attack them. We train women to be dangerous to the men who would attack them. We do not teach women to negotiate with any attacker, but to attack them instead and destroy them.
  1. Centerline Theory: From the Wing Chun Kung Fu School, teaches us that while punching, kicking or blocking from the center of one's body, it maximizes the potential for stopping an attacker’s attempts to hurt you. Conversely, the competitive edge of blocking, punches and kicks is that in seeing "only one punch or kick that is not of this system informs one about what to expect next in terms of attack style. In other words knowing the style of the fighter forewarns the student about what is coming next. If you recognize it, what comes next cannot surprise you. Centerline theory teaches that the silhouette should be watched as much as the chest and hips because that will tell one how to extrapolate the path to a target without having to look directly at it. In other words, knowing what the overall body is doing tells you what it can and can’t do next. Centerline theory teaches the more direct the attack, the faster and the more powerful the attack. Therefore use Centerline theory to teach you how to fight.
  1. Centrifugal Forces: We use centrifugal force in the dojo (school) to explain how easy it is to use an attacker's weight and intention against them. Knowledge of how and what centrifugal force is, is an asset in defeating an attacker In combat, centrifugal force is powerful force that makes a ball connected to a string lift up in the air as it is spun around in a circle. This force is so powerful that it can make a ball fly away when the string is released from the grip of the person holding it.
  1. Chi or Qi: The breath of life, the internal force. The energy of the body to protect, strengthen, and defend itself. A force that moves throughout the body on command of the body and mind. A force inside the body that can be directed by the mind to travel outside of the body when kicking, punching, or blocking and penetrate the body of the attacker
  1. Combat: To fight against; to oppose in battle, to physically resist.
  1. Connect: To use points of your body as leveraging points which will enable any student to multiply their physical power. To connect the lower part of the body with the upper part of the body. To strengthen the mind, body, and spirit is the ultimate goal of martial arts students.
  1. Cross: A punch thrown from the rear side of boxer's stance toward the attacker's body. This punch must cross in front of the body and into the target to qualify as a cross. Example: "She threw a right cross to the attacker's nose and knocked them down and out'".
  1. Decision: The act of reaching a conclusion or making up one's mind. See One Decision.
  1. Distance: The amount of space between the attacker and the woman defending herself, one of the big three that must be controlled in order to win a moment of a fight.
  1. Dojo: The building or room where one studies martial arts or self-defense. A Japanese word in origin meaning school or "group".
  1. Drive: Used to clarify the importance of using hip drive propulsion when punching, blocking, or kicking. The use of the word "drive" is a metaphor for the determination committed to winning, reaching, or accomplishing a stated goal.
  1. Drop: Moving the body downward as fast as you can. This means that you do not jump up first in order to move downward. A drop is designed to add your body's gravitational weight to whatever technique you use against your attacker.
  1. Drop Turn 90.5: A turning movement used when performing "Do you Wanna’ Dance?" This technique gets the hips and shoulders to move in unison so as to move the man's containing arm enough to move within its seeming constriction. One moment the woman is standing with her arms at her side and doing nothing, the next moment she is in horse stance. She enacts a drop turn 90.5 in moving the feet into a perpendicular horse stance, improving her stance and destroying the attacker's stance by sweeping one of his two support legs out from under him. As the woman is destroying the attacker's balance, she locks into a good and safe balance. While thrusting the knife deep into his throat all the way to the hilt of the knife, she is in a perfect horsestance.
  1. Escape and Avoidance: The first rule of self-defense is to make and keep yourself safe while under attack. The second rule is to not get caught or captured doing what ever it takes to make and keep you safe. If this means that one must escape from the scene of a streets self-defense encounter, then do that. If it means that one maneuvers the attacker into a situation where they can hit or counter-attack where there is no witnesses then do that too. However, if one chooses to turn oneself in to the legal system (only upon the advice of legal council) then do so with a clear head and with some degree of assurance that one's basic civil rights will be somewhat protected and observed. Woman will spend more time in prison for an act of self-defense (that was not of their choice or making) than do men. An example is a woman who is battered for years until she kills her batterer to stop him from killing her, only to spend years in prison. Our nation's laws were written and are largely enforced by men. The decision to escape and avoid capture, arrest and incarceration is for each woman to make. If someone allows another to kill her, the legal system's promise of "blind justice" or equal protection under the law won't matter because they will be dead. Self-defense means one thing: staying alive and being alive to fight and to live another day.
  1. Exaggeration Principal: Often when teaching a student how to make a movement, she will not be able to find that imaginary line that she needs to be on. When the trainer notices that a student is not able to perform as requested, it is because the student thinks that she is performing correctly and does not understand where she has gone wrong. How does a trainer make this point clear? By having the student go past the point (or the line) they have been asked to go to. The secret to the exaggeration principal, is to ask the student to move beyond the intended line that you wanted them to move to by a big margin. What happens is the "mental envelope" of the student will be broken through and they will understand what she thought and felt was enough, wasn't right. A pitched battle with the outcome not known. P.TR. .com teaches women not to fight but to strike quickly and repeatedly. The contextual difference is immense. To fight means to willingly get into a conflict where the makers are going to give and receive energy of a negative nature. Protect the Roses .com teaches strike first and quite often until the attacker is stopped.
  1. Fire Babies: A woman is "out of her body" and not able to move in a way that will make the techniques flow easily and quickly at her targets. These "fire babies" are willing and sometimes able to defend themselves, however, it is the quality and consistency of their technique that is doubted. Having a willingness to fight and being able to fight very effectively is two different things. Learning how to fight has nothing to do with being angry or expressing anger in any way shape or form.
  1. Fist: The hand, when rolled twice from the ends of the fingertips and the thumb being pressed (at a 90 degree angle) against the center of the first and second knuckle joints, becomes a fist. The body's chi flows through two mentally co-joined holes in the dead center of the two big knuckles of the hand when closed into a fist. This energy, then flows directly into the body of the person who is being hit.
  1. Focus: A point to which something converges or diverges. Forging the power of the body, mind and spirit, to the point of a pin, a martial artist can punch, kick or block with the power of a person twice their size and strength. Focus is the secret of the marital arts. Imagine a four-walled pyramid (as seen in the Egyptian dessert and all of the invisible power swirling around its base. Imagine having the ability to direct all this power at the bottom of the pyramid to the top. If all this power, under pressure were to come out of the top of the pyramid would be tremendously forceful. The above example is an example of focus: the big and undirected to the small and directed.
  1. Fulcrum: The point or support on which a lever turns. A martial artist is always seeking the point of the fulcrum in both themselves and their opponent's bodies.
  1. Goddess: A female deity; a woman of great beauty or grace. A woman adored as a beauty. A spiritual entity that connotes a love for all nature. This term is not to be confused with any organized religion's view of a goddess.
  1. Grounding: Whether punching or kicking a target, a woman must lower her center of gravity so as to maximize her ability to develop and deliver power. Grounding is being certain that no matter how intently the focus is on the strife, the primary responsibility is to maintain one's balance. Grounding is felt best when the feet are flat on the ground at the moment of impacting the target.
  1. Harassment: Systematic persecution by an antagonist with annoyances or demands. Not taking no for an answer. A feeling that one is being pressured to do something that one is not naturally inclined to do.
  1. Hook: A punch thrown by either the lead or rear arm. The crook of the arm characterizes the hook so that the fist actually returns to the throwers own face. The hook is a punch that has the elbow in a chamber and aligned with the propelling of the fist. In other words the elbow, in a very straight line pushes the first to its target. The hook has as its primary targets the temple, jaw, or ribs.
  1. Horse Stance: A utility stance used in self-defense to provide stability and strength in a combat or technique-practicing situation. This positioning of the body.is characterized by squatting with the feet two shoulders width apart and parallel with each other. The back is straight and the hips are tucked in underneath the shoulder line. The head is neither turned up nor down. The arms can be positioned as necessary.
  1. Jab: A punch thrown only with the lead hand. This punch is designed to keep the opponent at bay and use the length of the arm as a controller of distance. The jab is short, fast and is used over and over again without taking a toll physically on the boxer.
  1. Jeet Kune Do: A synthesis of all the major martial arts through the work and study of Bruce Lee and by Danny Inosanto. The message of their system is there is no systematic way to fight everyone, every time. There is no proper way of performing Jeet Kune Do. This is a departure from any system to come before it meaning that the old rules have changed and works against an attacker that was never seen before its inception. Anything that does not work against an attacker must be discarded.
  1. Judo: A combat sport that evolved from Jujitsu. It was develop by Jigaro Kano in Japan in 1882. Judo employees much ground fighting, sweeps, shoulder and hip throws as well as chokes.
  1. Jujitsu: A killing art from the Ninjitsu School of Martial Arts. This art is a forebear of Judo and Aikido. It has ground fighting techniques, grappling, chokes, sweeps and takedowns.
  1. Karate: Open hand and foot fighting with no weapons. The concept of Karate is to defend and then strike. Karate is fast and simple, and anyone can learn it.
  1. Kata: A Japanese word that means form or pattern. There is a similar word when used in the art of TaeKwonDo and it is Hyung or Poomsa. Kata is performed to learn it all and to know nothing. Kata is performed to be in the moment with you, full of power and full of force. Kata is a way of getting to the truth about what one believes about themselves. Kata, hyung, or Poomsa is one path for spiritual enlightenment and harmony.
  1. Kiai (kee-iii): The kiai is a warrior's shout and the result of instantly synthesizing the spirit and the body. The kiai is an invisible weapon able to startle an attacker long enough to strike and gain the advantage. The kiai should be seen and thought of as a ball of fire that comes out of one's mouth each and every time they block, kick, or strike.
  1. Kick: The kick is the sum total of all the energy the body can develop and deliver in a single instant. A kick is an act of the body moving energy from the rear of the body towards the feet. A kick is the most devastating weapon in a martial artist's arsenal.
  1. Kill Shot: An expression that is use to draw attention to the importance of-punching on target and as hard as possible. It is important to note that at no time do we advocate killing all attackers. Protect the Roses.com advocates training to hit as hard as possible with the view that some attackers are looking to kill any woman they meet.
  1. Kung-Fu: Indirectly created perhaps, by Bodhidharma (an Indian monk and a Buddhist teacher) as an outgrowth of a series of exercises to train monks not to fall asleep during meditation practice. Fung Fu was an out growth of his work with Tai Chi Chuan Kung Fu employees kicks and sophisticated locks and punches, kicks and blocks. It is by far the most complex martial art to learn. It has been said that there was at one time at least 3,000 differing styles of Kung Fu in China.
  1. Kyosaku: A flat wooden stick that can be used to strike a student to wake them up during meditation and keep them alert. Japanese Zen Buddhists have found this stick helps the practitioner gain insight, sometimes in moments of great surprise.
  1. Lady: A woman having the refined habits, gentle manners and sense of responsibility often associated with the current culture. Or the equivalent of a gentleman who does not train ladies to be warriors, we train women to be warriors. Ladies is a term originated by the patriarchy to keep women in line and controllable. Lady defines a woman as a human being who controls her feelings and attitudes so as to take care of others at there own expense. Protect the Roses.com trainers never use the term lady because it makes them supporters of the system we are intent on destroying.
  1. Lever: A simple machine consisting of a rigid body, typically a metal bar, pivoted on a fixed fulcrum. Martial artists would say that a lever is also a leg that kicks a target.
  1. Leverage: The action of a lever. The mechanical advantage of a lever and positional advantage and power to act effectively. A woman on her back is able to lift an attacker off her hips by using her legs and hips together as a lever and a fulcrum. It is at the moment of lift off, that the woman has leverage over the attacker.
  1. Line of Attack: Between any two adversaries, there is a straight-line connecting them. This line is known as the line of attack. It is the line to not be on when the attacker makes their move. It is a straight line though that the attacker and student share.
  1. Martial Arts: The way of spiritual enrichment and education. One aspect of the Martial Arts is learning to protect the body, mind, and spirit through a physical discipline that involves blocking, punching' and kicking. But that is not all that is learned, students learn in great detail about the art of making war from beginning to the end.
  1. Matriarchy: A society where woman and men were treated and thought of as being equal in strength and power. A time in the history of our world when no cities or groups of people had implements of warfare. Women governing the state didn't dominate men. In fact, it is a false belief that matriarchy equals male oppression.  It was never true ever.
  1. Matrifocal: Term denoting that a woman holds dominant authority. The attention is focused on the family unit. The family headed by the mother and lacking a father permanently or for extended periods. Control then, is focused or centered on the mother'
  1. Matrilineal: The passage of power, of inheritance, of family name traced and descended through the mother; inheriting or determining descent through the female line.
  1. Off: Useful as a word that describes a muscle group that can strike an attacker without the slightest waste of time. A woman who has mastered the ability under pressure and not remain tense while awaiting the opportunity to attack can do a much faster job of self‑defense.
  1. On: Useful as a word to describe a woman's muscle group when she is in a state of muscular rigidity for an anticipated counter attack. To allow her body to move, her muscle group she must first relax before she can move an inch. When she is ‘on’ she is unable to move and cannot defend herself because her body is rigid.
  1. Patriarchy: A system of social organization in which descent and succession are traced through the male line. The thinking is that men are superior to women who can be successfully' abused and abused. A philosophy saying by thought, word, or deed that women are expendable and the servant's of men.
  1. Point of Origination: The point of leverage wherein the strength of a woman’s body is multiplied by her body's use of the natural starting and stopping points she imagines. She learns in her classes that this use of a point of origination makes a student aware of the need to create and maintain the same amount of distance between their attacker's hips at all times. To also designate an invisible and arbitrary spot from the floor to the bottom of her butt to touch this invisible point each time they punch or kick has been delivered making the student understand the importance of moving the hips in the exact same way each time. And legs are moved in the exact same way and for the exact same distance each and every time she punches. This fight strategy makes her consistent with distance to target, which makes her more consistent in production of power.
  1. Controlling the distance: When the hips move it is critical to gaining predictable results in developing and delivering power to a distant and moving target. The spot in space that you or your attacker occupies must be as similar in one second as they can be in the next second. For example: "he was situated two feet away from me in a crouched and ready position", or "my chest was positioned so that he could not hit me squarely." It is critical that students understand this strategy to survive and win their fights.
  1. Punch: The punch is the sum total of all the energy the body can develop and deliver in a single instant. A punch is an act of the body moving energy from the feet to the two large protruding knuckles of the fist. For effective and powerful punching, the hips must twist in the direction the punch is thrown; the legs must rise up slightly as the hips twist. No punch should be thrown that does not come from as is far away as technically possible.  Remember: the greater the driving distance of the body part that is doing the striking the better.
  1. Rape: The felony crime of forcing a female to sexual touching and intercourse. The most under reported felony crime in the world, the least prosecuted, the least time served, and the highest recidivism rate there is.
  1. Reciprocating: To give and take mutually, to move back and forth with equal amounts of power. This movement of arms, feet, and legs is essential to punch with power and balance.
  1. Reciprocity: is a mutual or cooperative exchange of power that does not destabilize the body’s balance.
  1. Reverse Punch: This is a punch that is delivered by first reversing the direction of the fist. In a classic Tae Kwon Do class the instructor would require the student to position the fist at a spot on the side center of the rib cage below the breast and a few inches above the belt. A reverse punch is the use and understanding of reciprocating power. The two fists move like pistons back and forth originating from the side center of the body to the target and back again. A reverse punch is the most powerful way to punch providing that the elbow is down and locked at the-moment of impact of target. Reverse punch is striking with the two big knuckles of the fist as the fist twists upon impact into the target. Reverse punch is taught as a snap punch that gets its multiplied power by making sure that the hips and shoulders develop power by at first going in the opposite direction of the intended punch. It's that simple.
  1. Rhythm: The regular patterned flow, the ebb and rise of movements and energy.
  1. Scoop: This term refers to using both hands to grab the testicles. When scooping it is important to avoid grabbing the attacker's penis. The two hands must go between the attacker's legs reaching through to the center of the body, grabbing the penis.
  1. Second: An artificial unit measuring a change of energy. Although we recognize that there is no such thing as time in a tangible sense, it is important to communicate effectively about an opportunity to strike in away that is understandable to the student. Protect the Roses.com teaches the concept that every second controlled in a fight leads to and supports controlling the next second of the fight. This idea is used to get students to focus intently on striking first and as many times as necessary in order to incapacitate an attacker in the first few seconds. Protect the Roses.com teaches students to be concerned about only one second of a fight at a time. Not to forget that every second that you can win is a second that he did not.
  1. Self-Defense: Defense of oneself when attacked. The right to protect oneself against violence when threatened by whatever force or means necessary. Defense of what belongs to one. Law. The right to defend against violence or threatened violence with whatever force or means are reasonably necessary is a guaranteed legal right.
  1. Sexual Assault: Any type of unwanted touching that has a sexual nature to it. Example: A man intentionally touches a woman's breast, it's sexual assault.
  1. Sexual Harassment: Unwanted touching, speaking or threatening the same against another. human being. Behavior considered offensive and of a sexual nature implied or communicated in any form. Conversation creating a tension or atmosphere that causes a person to feel threatened or uncomfortable.
  1. Stair-Step-Approach: The concept of attacking an opponent means that the first strike is far from the last one to be thrown. The attacker continues to strike until the attacker is dead or unconscious. She does not stop striking against her attacker until she is satisfied she is safe. In other words, one counter attack always leads to another.
  1. Strategy: The science or art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of large‑scale operations.
  1. Speed: Rapidity in movement, proceeding or performing is what speed is. Full, optimum, maximum speed enabling her to hit the man in the eye eyeball before he could push his knife into her throat is possible because she has superior training. Speed is one of the three elements that must be controlled in order for the woman to control a moment of a fight. In this equation, distance plus speed equals power delivered. The person who hits first is the one who hits without having any negative energy in their own body from their attacker because she beat him to the punch. Without speed, no matter what the distance, there can be no power delivered.
  1. Squish: One of the techniques Protect the Roses.com teaches women is to rip an attacker's testicles from their body when they attack. By placing their arms around her arms and attempt to carry her away or to break her back by squeezing her arms into her rib cage while bending her backwards.
  1. Stalking: The act of focusing on and attempting to talk to, spy or otherwise invade the space in anyway, against that person’s desires. Stalking, Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC) show that 7.5 million people are stalked before the age of 25 years. Studies show that stalking victims suffer higher rates of depression, anxiety and insomnia.
  1. Stances: A physical posture wherein a woman can defend herself from attack from a man.
  1. Tae Kwon-Do: The art of empty hand and foot fighting as developed by General Choi Hi 1945' Tae Kwon-Do is a synthesis of Japanese Karate and ancient Korean Tae Kwon. Tae Kwon-Do is considered as having the best leg techniques in all of martial arts.
  1. Target: A specific spot on a person’s body, which all of the woman's body, mind and spirit directs energy to.
  1. Time: is a measurement emoting a passage of mental awareness. Time doesn’t exist, yet we discuss it as if it did. Performing several body movements in one second delivers the manipulation of “time”. Time can be made to stand still with advanced martial arts training.
  1. Triangulation Theory: The basis of martial arts comes from reducing the focal point of a weapon to its smallest point so that it can have the maximum ability to penetrate a target. For this reduction of focal plane to happen, the student must first know where they are big and how they can make themselves smaller. An example is the width of the shoulders traveling down the arm to the pin point of the fist's the knuckles. The triangulation theory is to make clear that every one has plenty of unused and unfocused power within our body at any given time. So think about that for a moment.
  1. Upper Cut: A punch originating from or below a woman's waistline and traveling vertically towards an attacker's throat or jaw. This punch, can also be used to strike any target in-between groin and the throat with devastating effect. This technique is best used as in any punches that we teach when the two large knuckles of the striking fist make the primary contact.
  1. Violence: Physical force exerted for the purpose of violating, damaging, or abusing: "The essence of war is violence." The abusive or unjust exercise of power: an outrage; a wrong.
  1. Virago: A heroic and vigorous woman: a female warrior: an amazon. A bold impudent woman. A man-like or heroic woman. War: Any condition of active antagonism, or contention. Two energy fields pitted in battle against each other.
  1. Warrior: A woman who is skilled at engaging in warfare or combat; see Amazon. One engaged or experienced in battle.
  1. Water Babies: A phrase used in Protect the Roses.com to denote the woman in question is fully, "in her body" and in touch with the ability to move her body in a manner that will allow her to learn the techniques easily and quickly. These "water babies" are not ready yet to defend themselves because of their abuse by the patriarchy. These women need to be trained more on the fighting/warrior spirit aspects of the martial arts rather than relying on techniques themself.
  1. Wing Chun: A style of Kung Fu that was invented by a bean curd peddler in the 16th century named Nig Mui in 16th century, China. She was a Buddhist nun and she learned what later became Wing Chun from Yim Wing Chun. She in turn learned how to do Shaolin Temple boxing first before she created Wing Chun.
  1. Work: The transfer of energy from one physical system to another; especially, the transfer of energy to a body by the application of force. A martial arts example is when kicking, the knee is seen as the fulcrum, the leg is the lever and the body that is impacted and thus moved is the work.
  1. Yim Wang Chun: She was a Shaolin nun who invented Wing Chun Kung Fu in a monastery that she lived in. She was taught Shaolin temple boxing by monks at the temple where she lived. Wing Chun synthesized the temple boxing with the Kung Fu she was learning and created Wing Chun-Kung Fu. She had to learn how to fight because a man was attempting to force her to marry him. She learned how to use Wing Chun and she defeated the bully in hand-to-hand combat. Later, she married another man and developed what is now known as Wing Chin Kung Fu. In my opinion, Wing Chun Kung Fu is an excellent system for women and girls to learn. I teach how to punch in the Wing Chun style, but the kicks I teach are pure Tae Kwon Do.
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Ten Mistakes Men Make When Attacking Women and Girls

  1. Rules of Warfare: Know your enemy. Without knowing what a woman knows and can do, a rapist is ignorant of his situation, but charges ahead anyway to try to do to a woman what he wants to do. So where are we in this new century of male female relationships? Has the number of women raped decreased in this new millennium? Since rape is the most under reported, under sentenced, under stay the incarceration time, it seems that world at large is not taking to the streets and demanding instant capital punishment for the rapist. I wonder how women feel about that? I wonder how women feel about having a man rape them? I bet if they could learn how to permanently stop their attacker, they would certainly give it a go and learn what ever they could.
  1. Rules of Warfare: Select the Battlefield. Look for high ground, locate free weapons and defend your body with your body. What if women, who are truly having a war waged against them by a certain subset of men, started looking more closely at the Rules of Warfare for guidance? What if they added to their already busy schedule this system that they can learn from on the Internet some serious, no holds barred techniques that could teach them how to protect themselves, no ifs, ands, or buts? What if women were taught to conduct themselves mentally like they were in a war that guided them to, in certain situations to protect themselves like they were the agents of the secret service and their job was to protect the president? Well, that is what I am saying and that is what we will be talking about at great length in the up and coming classes. Wouldn’t it be great to learn how to walk down the street knowing for certain who is behind you harmlessly and who is behind you with the intention of hurting you? Are their techniques for just that kind of a scenario? Of course there are, and you can learn it from me once you are started on this path. There is a mountain of information that I will put out at first and then I will add to it as we go.I will kick off with 40 self-defense techniques and add more to that number as we go along.  I will teach Tae Kwon Do as well as the kicks, punches and blocks. I will also teach the forms as well for those women and girls who want to really learn the martial arts. I hope there are 300 hundred million women and girls who want to learn Tae Kwon Do as well! That’s increasing the size of the army to a good number of trained students. A number of females that will definitely go into the next seven generations of women and girls, spreading out and downward as time passes us all by.
  1. Rules of Warfare: Have a plan, work the plan. Attackers believe they are invincible and never consider the possibility that a woman or girl could hurt them, so work your plan. Think about the most put upon member of society, and who is it? If you said women and girls, you are on the right track. So what are you going to do about it? I hope you take seriously this offering of mine and decide to start studying with me from where ever in the world you are living in right now. Understand that you can start today and start with purchasing for just $1, your first video from this website and you can keep it for the rest of your life. It is not as much as a cup of coffee. But I am telling you now; I want you to bring you Martial Arts journal and a pen so that you can take notes. You are going to get martial arts education from a master teacher, whether you are learning self-defense techniques or Chung Do Kwan Tae Kwon Do.
  1. “Sermonizing” Instead of Hurting: This may be hard for you to believe, but most attackers with a knife don’t attack and kill their victims with that knife instantly. Instead what crime statistics tell us is that they come up to the woman and talk to her, yell at her and tell her again and again what she is going to do for him. This is what I call “sermonizing”. During this sermon, the woman is expected to be jittery and scared and not talk. Until you really understand about men who attack women it would be a good idea if you acted that way just for fun. I say just for fun because I know what you are capable of once you learn what I have to tech you. The point about you understanding about “sermonizing” is him talking to you, or yelling at you, is a golden opportunity for you to plan your first, second and third technique. “Sermonizing” you is a really gigantic mistake, and there is no two-ways about it. The “attacker who can’t keep his mouth shut” is what this technique should be called. Because him wanting to be heard by you is a feeling that is just so compelling, so powerful and an attraction that he is totally out of control of stopping. That is why I put this mistake so close to the top of the list. It is definitely a keeper.
  1. Provides the Weapon: His knife to her throat, he hesitates and believes he could not possibly be a target; she can stop him with his own weapon. My students come to realize soon enough that men are just as brainwashed as they are about what they can and can’t do as women are, if not more so. The sooner my students confront that brainwashing and look at it for what it is, the better for them. When a man brings a weapon to an encounter with a woman he brings what I call the “game ender”. Attacking a woman with bare hands is one thing, but bringing a weapon is like bringing the one thing that can end the attacker’s life that much faster. I don’t believe in disarming an attacker because it puts the gun or knife right back into play where his associate could pick it up and use it on our student. Instead it is better for the woman or girl to look at the gun or knife for what it is: a “game ender.” I have several offerings about knife and gun reversals for your review. The best part about it is he bets his life that he is safe by brining the knife or gun to the rape meet up with you. He does not think for a minute that you would resist him in any way if he brings a knife or a gun or he would not bring it with him. Imagine his surprise when the weapon he brings turns out to be the one thing he really did no think all the way through.
  1. No touch, no control. A females’ mind, body and spirit are not controlled because this control requires her consent and agreement. What this means is that when a woman is in “full on resistance” to her attacker magic happens! Why do I say magic? Because anything we civilian’s see that we cannot explain, we call it magic.  Just because a man brings his misconceptions about women with him everywhere he goes doesn’t mean that a woman has to be his accomplice to her own rape and murder does it? A standard grab of a woman usually means that he has put his two hands on her and is either trying to drag her away with him or is going to try to do something to her on the spot. Which ever he tries to do, unconsciously, he believes that she will go along with whatever he tells her to do. I mean that is what he has seen thousands of times on TV and films. He got his education about attacking women from TV long before he actually ever did it in real life. The trick is to recognize that what I have just told you is another secret that provides you deep insight into how these men think and how they strategize about raping and murdering you.So, your attacker has some pretty serious programming going on in his head and he did not even realize it. Understand that men don’t go to rapist school where they learn all the ins and outs of being a successful rapist. They sit, instead in front of a TV and get indoctrinated about what his role in the rape of a woman is and most women get the same brainwashing as he does. So both of them go out into the world and live out their respective roles until when the two meet it is not going to be pretty for the untrained woman. They both agree to one big premise though. The woman, after a little arguing, pleading, and of course, scratching of his face, surrenders to the man. Isn’t that swell for the rapist? For very little effort at all, most men are successful at raping and then murdering women and girls. You and I are going to change that once and for all.
  1. Ignorant of women’s history (Believes all women are the same.) This is more brainwashing, and even more pervasive. Think about this for a moment. Half of our entire humanity, the creator’s of life itself, the life force that says we as a race of people would not be here if it were not for women, have very little written about women as warriors. In fact, not only is their very little written about them, what is written about them is not entirely accurate. You don’t read great stories about women as warriors either, not in the same volume as is written about men.When I am talking about women as warriors who can name even one book that you have read that is exclusively about women as warriors?  I want to introduce you to a woman who wrote a book entitled: The Encyclopedia of Amazons by Ms. Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Why I bring this up is not because it is a riveting read, because although it was, the thing that struck me about it was how very little I knew about women as warriors from antiquity to present day. It astounded me how women were every bit as capable of holding their own in battles against men, but until you actually read it, you have no idea. It is because of this huge shortage of information that exists to this day about women as warriors that both boys and girls believe quite incorrectly that women cannot be warriors.  And girls, to say the least cannot grow up to be warriors because they don’t see them anywhere in their day-to-day life. And as a result of having no women warriors to emulate girls move on the next thing to catch and hold their attention.

    But a girl’s story does not end here. Just because girls don’t see adult women dressed up in warrior’s uniforms, they, at this late date may have an older sister or mother who is in the military. And that is great but where are the stories about women as warriors written in the last 500 years? Boys and girls grow up to believe that when it comes to fighting, better leave that to the men. So without question, without reservation, boys grow up to be men who believe sincerely that women or girls cannot and will not be able to stop them when they want to rape them.

    Its all a matter of education, because if girls can learn to code,  and they are doing that right now, they can learn to fight, there is just no doubt about it. And not just do a so-so job of it either. They can learn it all and shine like a bright star. If women can dance on a beam during their floor exercises, what does that say about her balance? If girls can master the gymnastics that they can, what does that say about them performing a jump turn kick?  I don’t hope or just believe that girls can grow into adulthood as outstanding martial artists I have seen it for myself for years.

  1. General ignorance of what martial arts is: Martial arts training sharpens intellect intention, focus, confidence and physical abilities. Long term martial arts training does something for a girl or woman that collectively no other discipline on earth can do for her. Females gain the agility and toughness necessary to travel as modern day warriors. To make it far worse for the man about to be counter attacked by the trained female if he has no martial arts training, he has no clue at all about what is coming his way. What this means is: he cannot in a moment of time put together the two things that are about to put a whipping on him. Think about it for a moment. If you don’t know, that you don’t know, you, as the male are about to step into a world of hurt unlike anything you have experienced in your life.This ignorance can go really deep, really fast. He does not know that women can get martial arts training and even if they could, he does not know what her having those years of training means to him, right now.  That double whammy level of ignorance is quite profound. Think about this for a minute: he buys a bottle of cheap wine and sits under a shade tree until he sees a woman he wants to rape. Now lets say he is finished with the bottle and is a little tipsy when he decides he has spotted the right woman to rape and murder. He starts following her, not catching on to the fact that when she walks across the street at a 90-degree angle that she looks left, then right then left again and crosses the street.

    What he doesn’t notice is that for a split second, she looks at him using a soft focus eye, and then looks to the right and back to the left and she watches him move in her direction as before. No problems so far, everything is very predictable. She then, as trained by me to do, cuts across the street and waits looking back towards the direction she has walked from and can see him cutting across the street still following her. She does not look at him for longer than a millisecond and keeps on walking (though across the street) back towards the direction she was just coming from. She has one last test to put the stalker through before she is dead certain he is stalking her. She steps between two cars on her left and looks both ways and crosses the street, so that she has now made a square in the pattern of her street crossings. She is headed for the same sidewalk she was originally walking on. She walks through two cars bumpers, turns and waits for the stalker/attacker to close the distance her. There is no way that the stalker can avoid her kicks or punches she has tricked him into walking into what we say in Texas is a “box end canyon”. The only way out is to turn around and walk back across the street or else walk around the outside of the cars. She has determined through a process of elimination that his intention is to hurt her somehow. This puts her into full on fight mode. If he wants to attack her, he will have to do so with her being fully aware of whatever he tries to do. It can’t get better than that. She had a plan and worked her plan. He had no clue about what he was walking into, but she sure did and all along too.

  1. Does Not Test or Listen Rapists don’t listen or test to learn what the female in question says with her body. Our students like all martial artists have no tattoo on their forehead that says: KUNG FU BETTY. Oblivious is the word that comes to mind when I ask my self what could these guys be thinking? I will give them this though, if it were 1922 when women did not even go into the world except for groceries or to the elementary school to visit with their children’s teacher that would certainly be one thing. I can say that the rapist had an almost certain chance of being successful at selecting and raping a woman or a girl. But this is the year 2021 where thousands of women have been in the US military and have been trained in hand to hand combat. What if our rapist picked one of those women? Rapists don’t communicate or talk to women about anything except what they want to talk about. That one-way conversation does nothing but give the woman time to think and strategize about what she is going to do to this attacker. For lack of a better word I am going to say that he spends his time sermonizing with or at the woman. The problem that he creates for himself is that he has no idea what or who he is in front of in that moment. When you attack whom you don’t know you violate a rule of war called: know your enemy, since he does not even consider the woman to have the potential to be an enemy he is digging himself a grave and if he brought a weapon, that is actually his shovel.
  1. There is safety in numbers: So if a woman is alone she can be raped? Women can be lethal, anywhere and anytime with or without their girlfriends. But some rapists have said in interviews that they stay away from groups of women because the more there are of them the greater the resistance to his attack there will be. So what does he think then, only attack the single women? So all he has to do to be successful is to wait until he sees the solitary female walking to her car in the car park late at night. The only problem is that women in my classes never assume that anyone will be coming to their aid in a street attack, ever.My students are trained to look at them selves as the help that they want to come to their aid. They never for a minute think that anyone will come to their aid, which is why they studied martial arts and self-defense in the first place. They want to roam the earth free as a bird, not caring what any man tries to do to them.  My students expect men to try and take them down. Now here is the best part; years ago I had a student who said she wanted to have that physical confrontation with a man to see how she would do. She had men hit on her all the time, but she wanted the real deal, she wanted to be attacked so that she could test her abilities. So, believe it or not, the transformation will come where you will finally get your own personal test if that is what you want.
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