Self Defense

BHS Physical Education:  Self Defense

Self Defense Review Sheet (pdf file - 65.9kb)

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Self Defense Curriculum Overview:

BHS Self Defense is one of the most beneficial classes taught within the high school physical education curriculum.  The class is open to all students in grades 9-12.  Although the majority of students who take self defense are female, males students are always welcome.  The class teaches self defense as a preventative measure, hence increasing the awareness of possible dangerous situations.  Although students are primarily taught the basics on how to increase awareness and not find themselves in dangerous situations, they are also taught how to defend themselves physically in the event that physical force is warranted.  We highly recommend that students, especially females, take the class at least once during their freshman and sophomore years and once during their junior/senior years before heading off on their own.

Self Defense Information

Key Facts

• Every two and a half minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted.
• One in six American women are victims of sexual assault, and one in 33 men.
• In 2004-2005, there were an average annual 200,780 victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault.
• About 44% of rape victims are under age 18, and 80% are under age 30.
• Since 1993, rape/sexual assault has fallen by over 69%.

Statistics:

Women

• Approximately 28% of victims are raped by husbands or boyfriends, 35% by acquaintances, and 5% by other relatives.
• One out of every six American women have been the victims of an
  attempted or completed rape in their lifetime (14.8% completed rape;
  2.8% attempted rape). This is according to the Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences of Violence Against Women Survey (PDF, 305KB), National Institute of Justice and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1998.
• A total of 17.7 million women have been victims of these crimes.
• In 2003, nine out of every ten rape victims were female according to the 2003 National Crime Victimization Survey (PDF, 623KB).
• While about 80% of all victims are white, minorities are somewhat more likely to be attacked:

Lifetime rate of rape/attempted rape for women, according to the Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences of Violence Against Women Survey:

• All: 17.6%
• White: 17.7%
• Black: 18.8%
• Asian/Pacific Islander: 6.8%
• American Indian/Alaskan: 34.1%
• Mixed Race: 24.4%

Men

• About three percent of American men — a total of 2.78 million men — have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime according to the 1998 Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences of Violence Against Women study.
• In 2003, one in every ten rape victims were male, according to the 2003 National Crime Victimization Study (PDF, 623KB).

Children

• 15% of victims are under age 12
• 29% are age 12-17
• 44% are under age 18
• 80% are under age 30

The statistics are according to the 1997 Sex Offense and Offenders Study (PDF, 216KB), Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice and 1999 National Crime Victimization Study.

• Seven percent of girls in grades five to eight and twelve percent of girls in grades nine through twelve said they had been sexually abused according to the 1998 Commonwealth Fund Survey of the Health of Adolescent Girls.
• Three percent of boys in grades five through eight and five percent of boys in grades nine through twelve said they had been sexually abused according to the 1998 Commonwealth Fund Survey of the Health of Adolescent Boys.
• 93% of juvenile sexual assault victims knew their attacker; 34.2% were family members and 58.7% acquaintences. Only seven percent of the perpetrators were strangers to the victim, according to the 2000 Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement. This study is available at the Bureau of Justice Statistics website.
• In 1995, local child protective service agencies identified 126,000 children who were victims of either substantiated or indicated sexual abuse; of these, 75% were girls. Nearly 30% of child victims were between the ages of 4 and 7. This is according to the 1995 Child Maltreatment study, US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.
• 12-34 are the highest risk years. Risk peaks in the late teens: girls 16 to 19 are four times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault. This is according to the 2000 National Crime Victimization Study (PDF, 131KB).

 

The Rapist Isn't a Masked Man

Approximately 73% of rape victims know their assailant, according to the 2005 National Crime Victimization Survey (PDF, 287KB).

• Approximately 38% of victims are raped by a friend or acquaintance;
• 26% of victims by a stranger;
• 28% of victims by an intimate;
• 7% of victims by another relative;
• in 2% of cases the relationship is unknown.

He's Not Hiding in the Bushes

According to the 1997 Sex Offenses and Offenders study (PDF, 216KB), Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice:

• About four out of ten sexual assaults take place at the victim's own home. Two in ten take place in the home of a friend, neighbor or relative. One in ten take place outside, away from home. And about one in 12 take place in a parking garage.
• More than half of all rape/sexual assault incidents were reported by victims to have occurred within one mile of their home or at their home.
• 43% of rapes occur between 6 pm and midnight. 24% occur between midnight and 6am. The other 33% take place between 6am and 6pm.

The Criminal

• The average age of rapists at arrest is 31. Fifty-two percent are white; twenty-two percent of imprisoned rapists report that they are married, according to the 1997 Sex Offenses and Offenders study (PDF, 216KB).
• Juveniles accounted for about 16% of forcible rape arrestees in 1995 and 17% of those arrested for other sex offenses.
• In about one out of three sexual assaults, the perpetrator was intoxicated — 30% with alcohol, 4% with drugs, according to the 1998 Alcohol and Crime study, available on the Bureau of Justice Statistics website.
• In one study, 98% of males who raped boys reported that they were heterosexual according to the 1998 article Sexual Abuse of Boys in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
• In 2001, only about 11% of rapes involved the use of a weapon — three percent used a gun, six percent used a knife, and two percent used another form of weapon. 84% of victims reported the use of physical force only, and 5% were unsure. This is according to the 2003 National Crime Victimization Study (PDF, 623KB).
• Rapists are more likely to be serial criminals than serial rapists. In one study, 46% of rapists who were released from prison were rearrested within 3 years of their release for another crime — 18.6% for a violent offense, 14.8% for a property offense, 11.2% for a drug offense and 20.5% for a public-order offense. This is according to the 2002 Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994 study (PDF, 365KB).

What Happens to Rapists When They Are Caught and Prosecuted?

61% of rapes/sexual assaults are not reported to the police. Those rapists, of course, never serve a day in prison according to a statistical average of the past five years.

• If the rape is reported to police, there is a 50.8% chance that an arrest will be made.
• If an arrest is made, there is an 80% chance of prosecution.
• If there is a prosecution, there is a 58% chance of a felony conviction.
• If there is a felony conviction, there is a 69% chance the convict will spend time in jail.
• So, even in the 39% of attacks that are reported to police, there is only a 16.3% chance the rapist will end up in prison.
• Factoring in unreported rapes, about 6% of rapists — 1 out of 16 — will ever spend a day in jail. 15 out of 16 will walk free.

 

Self Defense:  Is an awareness of who you are, where you are and of potential situations which may need firm and or defensive actions. The very last resort is the actual self defense physical reaction.  Defend in order to get away

FIVE PRINCIPLES OF DEFENDING YOURSELF

• Resist immediately, decisively and explosively
• Yell Loudly
• Attack a Vulnerable Target
• Fight to Win – 100% Conviction, 100% of the time.
• Never go to another location!

 

 

STRIKES Palm Heal Hammerfist Elbow Head Butt

KICKS Roundhouse Knee Foot

BODY WEAPONS Palm Heel Hammerfist Elbow Head Thumbs

 

 

“ACCESS” VIOLENCE PREPARATION ACRONYM

• ASSESS the situation
• COUNT the number of potential assailants
• COMMIT to a strategy and put all of you efforts behind that strategy.
• ESCAPE from your assailant(s) as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
• SILENCE the self-doubt and rationalizations in your head
• SUBDUE the attacker as quickly as possible.

 

THE ANATOMY OF AN ASSAULT

• WHO: Women, children Senior citizens, disabled, etc.
• WHERE: Isolated areas, including your house and car
• PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE OF POTENTIAL VICTIM: Under the influence of drugs or alcohol, depressed, not paying attention etc.
• TEST: An interaction with the attacker where the potential victim may be tested through means such as casual conversation, threats, invasion of personal space, touching, grabbing etc.

TIPS

• Always know your surroundings
• Keep a phone and phone numbers close.
• Always avoid potentially dangerous situations
• Yell – Be Loud – Fight with 100% conviction, 100% of the time.
• Vary your routes
• Use the buddy system
• Make sure that  someone always knows where you are.

 

 

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