- Paperback: 198 pages
- Publisher: B3 Books (Dec 12 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0971144702
- ISBN-13: 978-0971144705
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.3 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #433,451 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book for women and men,
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This review is from: Beauty Bites Beast: Awakening the Warrior Within Women and Girls (Paperback)
I ordered and read this book after having a daughter. I wanted to learn how I can help her grow up strong and able to fend for herself and not become a victim of any sorts. For the most part this book was a revelation to me about the reality women face...a reality of danger, threats, bullying, discrimination, etc. It made me put myself in the shoes of the women walking to her car in a dark parking lot who fears for her safety and life due to potential dangers. Ms. Snortland shows how fear is often present in daily situations women encounter. She also indicates changes in attitude and lessons in defense that can improve a women's posture in the world. It has encouraged me to sign my daughter up for self-defense classes as soon as it is age-appropriate. I garnered a much better understanding of many societal attitudes my daughter will face as she grows up. It will really help me be a better father to her. A downside to this book is Snortland's political advocacy. It is clear where she stands politically and on certain issues she conveys the message that women who disagree are being duped by a male-dominated society. To me this is a totally different issue than what the book purports to focus on. She should stick to defending women not politics. The above criticism aside, the book is worthwhile for its main message and was helpful.
5.0 out of 5 stars
In Defense of Ms. Snortland and Impact...,
This review is from: Beauty Bites Beast: Awakening the Warrior Within Women and Girls (Paperback)
You should buy and read the book. If you've read these other reviews, you know why...Impact may not be the "best" self defense system for women, in that if a woman wants to master brazilian jiu jitsu, krav maga, or one of the other "sound fighting systems" ...then she could be a more effective fighter than if she took Impact alone. Indeed, after the years of judo and san soo I'd studied, the Impact men's class I took gave me relatively little in the way of new insights or techniques. However, of the self defense schools I've seen, Impact does the best job of directly addressing the types of threats and violence women face in our society, and does so in an environment explicitly supportive of women instead of subtly slighting women as do so many other combat systems. Impact also seems to do the best job of quickly making someone competent, committed and confident enough to be able to defend themselves. (For example, Impact's use of padded assailants for more realistic training means that the 25-hour Impact "Basics" class will be far more useful than the endless air-kicks and air-punches that most traditional martial arts schools have new students perform.) By all means, do your own research on which self defense systems to study. Even if you do decide to take Impact, I'd encourage you to then go on and learn more, to master one or several of those other sound fighting systems ... But in my oh so humble opinion, Impact is still the best place to start -- *especially* for women. Oh yeah, and buy the book already.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too Much Party Line Sales Hype!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Beauty Bites Beast: Awakening the Warrior Within Women and Girls (Paperback)
I was glad to finally get my hands on a copy of this book which I'd heard about over the years but was quickly disappointed. While this book is very well written and has some great perspectives on the types of conditioning that disempowers women and breeds learned helplessness, it is far too full of party line sales pitches for the Impact self defense system. At times it seems that is the purpose of the book, and for the reader this gets tiring. Plus, more important, while the author clearly has the right self defense attitude it is equally clear that she has little if any experience or even exposure to other equally practical self defense systems or methods, and furthermore seems blind to the particular downfalls of the methods which she so blatantly hawks. For every woman who fended off an atttacker after undergoing the Impact method of training there's plenty, from what I've seen, who frankly wouldn't stand a chance in a real attack. (That group doesn't even teach how to defend against punches; they say it doesn't happen to women!)As a twenty year martial artist and self defense trainer drawing from a vartiety of sound fighting systems, I find this not only disturbing and potentially misleading but ironic: at times Ms. Snortland comes across like the dutiful daughter that she so righteously detests, blinded by her own brand of indoctrination. In truth, all good self defense systems can boast many a succes story. I would warn readers that while this is an empowerment book - that is clearly its agenda - it is NOT an accurate perspective on the best self defense systems for women.
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