Empowerment Principles
The goal of the Women Empowered program
The equip and empower you with verbal, physical, and psychological skills and confidence needed for any situation in a fight.
First step when someone grabs your wrist in a “friendly” but uncomfortable way.
Drop into Base
What phrase does Women Empowered teach to assert your boundary early in an encounter?
Stop right there, don't come any closer
Back Up
The primary end goal of a fight
escape and get to safety
What’s the name of the technique used when someone tries to grab you by the hair?
Hair Grab
Three key elements needed for successful physical technique application.
Leverage, Technique, commitment
This technique allows you to control an attacker from the bottom
Guard
When is it too late to set the boundary?
never
Alavanca
Leverage
You're in a park sitting down, before you know it, someone is standing over you.
Base get up
In Women Empowered, what is the meaning of “verbal Jiu-Jitsu”?
Using calm, confident communication to defuse or de-escalate confrontation before it becomes physical.
Rules of managing the distance
Maintain two arm lengths away, if they can touch your shoulder it's too close.
or
Go all the way in, clinch protection.
Two key components of a “confident stance” when setting a verbal boundary.
Feet shoulder-width apart and hands in a non-threatening but assertive “ready” position (palms out).
Define “victory” in a self-defense situation?
Surviving and escaping the fight safely. not necessarily defeating the attacker
Deadly force options
Triangle choke, Shirt Choke, Guillotine
What are the three elements needed in order for an attack to take place?
Target, Predator, and an opportunity
Women Empowered rules when a weapon is brought into the scenario
If it's an item, give it.
Do not ever get into the vehicle. Nothing is more valuable than your life.
Last resort: Take it and break it.
How do you know if a person has bad intentions or not
You have to set a boundary
How can we win the fight before it begins
De-escalation
If an attacker mounts you and you’ve already applied the Trap and Roll, but they post their arm, what’s your next move?
Elbow Escape
How do we practice our techniques with eachother?
Slowly
What's Sunny's typical answer to all "what if" jiu-jitsu questions?
Learn more Jiu-jitsu
In a public setting, someone gets too close in your personal space — what boundary-setting technique should you use FIRST?
Verbal Assertiveness
What is the Women Empowered philosophy about fear and adrenaline during an attack?
Strikes may fail, but leverage will not
Someone is holding you down, you have used all of your jiu-jitsu techniques to try to escape. What are your options?
Stop, stay calm, do nothing. conserve energy. False surrender.