- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division; 1 edition (Mar 19 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0802081126
- ISBN-13: 978-0802081124
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 22.8 x 0.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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- #12 in Books > Health, Mind & Body > Mental Health > Abuse & Self Defence > Self Defence
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Product Description
"Fearless: The Complete Personal Safety Guide for Women" is an extensive manual that offers a unique balance of practical advice on personal safety and an array of self-defence strategies, with an academic exploration of the psychology of offenders and victims. While presenting the reader with detailed self-defence material, including strategies for safety awareness and effective physical and non-physical resistance techniques, Paul Henry Danylewich investigates the social patterns of sexual assault and domestic violence using the material from interviews with 50 sex offenders, as well as the resources provided by law enforcement agencies, rape crisis centres, hospitals, and public safety organizations in North America.
Written by the director of White Tiger Street Defense, a group specializing in safety issues for women, "Fearless" offers clear instruction on physical and non-physical self-defence strategies. The two principles guiding this manual are that women in general are not conditioned or socialized adequately to defend themselves in threatening situations, and, more generally, that knowledge is power. Danylewich offers prevention tips to reduce the individual's chances of becoming the target of an aggressor and debunks myths surrounding sexual assault. He describes in detail the techniques for reducing the likelihood of being victimized in various circumstances, including: dating relationships and parties, while driving alone, working late, walking alone, taking public transit, and at home when answering the phone or the front door. To help women learn these easy and effective techniques, the guide is packed with over 140 action photo illustrations.
"Fearless" contains information every woman should have to help her live more safely and with less fear. This guide is a complete personal safety manual that can empower women with the resources necessary to help recognise and avoid potentially violent situations.
About the Author
Paul Henry Danylewich has been teaching self-defence techniques over the years to thousands of women in North America in his capacity as Director and Counsellor, White Tiger Street Defense.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
I Really Like This Book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Fearless: The Complete Personal Safety Guide for Women (Paperback)
As a female high school Physical Education teacher with two teenage daughters, I really like this book because it tells it the way it is. I know traditional martial arts instructors have bashed Danylewich and White Tiger Street Defense in the past. But the fact of the matter is, as Danylewich puts it, "women want to learn how to recognize and escape from various forms of violence" they do not necessarily want to become black belts and study karate for years.I know that martial arts experts in karate and kung fu hate "other" self-defense experts that base their advice on facts, interviews with offenders and actual case files rather than old Asian Grandmasters. By the way, those that are the most hostile seem to be male instructors - they just do not get it! What is amazing about fearless is that it really does provide a strong basis for women to stay safe and escape from violence - and it is written by a man who has taken the time to understand women's safety needs.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't waste your money,
By Don (Toronto ON) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fearless: The Complete Personal Safety Guide for Women (Paperback)
The best thing about this book is the photo on the front cover, and it goes rapidly downhill from there.Please, please, please, I am begging you - if you are looking for resources for self-defence, look elsewhere. Trusting your life or body to anything presented in it is like buying lottery tickets to cover your retirement. Here's an example of what I mean. Is a sexual predator more likely to attack a woman in a big open area, and stand 3 feet away? Of course not, he's going to be in her face, restricting her movement as much as possible. So why doesn't the book work from there? In a car? On a couch? There's a brief section where the woman is on the ground/on a bed, but it is _so_ brief it is like the author is embarrassed by it all. I can't say it enough, don't buy this book
5.0 out of 5 stars
Smash the Offender into the Dirt,
By Golden Lion "Reader" (North Ogden, Ut United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fearless: The Complete Personal Safety Guide for Women (Paperback)
As a second degree black belt, I know that it's training that matters. If your attacked, the first few seconds make all the difference. 1400 techniques bring you to the point of knowing the consequences of failure. It may be one technique in grained in your mind and body giving you a chance to escape. It will take every ounce of strength and courage for you to survive. "Fearless", opens your mind to the world of martial arts and street smarts. When two tigers fight one dies. If you learn one thing from this book it should be "Be Aware". Self safety is watching for signals, being aware of your risks, knowing the mind of the predator, and avoiding danger. Paul Danylewich book "Fearless" vividly wakes you up to the dangers on the street and violence that can happen within your home. Awareness means adding lights around your house, organize community watch groups, being assertive in meeting people (get to know at little about everyone new in your community), knowing escape routes to your safe room (reinforcing the structure), entering your home, answering the door, not being liberal in giving out private information on the phone, watching for behavior associated with a violent person, approaching your parked car, forcing bystanders involvement with an attack is underway, not getting out of the car if rearended, not getting out of the car with pulled over if isolated, running in pairs, personal safety on the elevator, taking money out of the atm, awareness about rape, things to watch for when you meet someone new, watching out for male pressure, the myths about rape, the dangers of drinking too much.Assertive communication is the first line of defense. Offenders are motivated to control their victims. Its your job to prevent them from gaining this control. Strategies include: passive resistence, assertive strategies, manipulation and negotiation, and physical resistence. After nine years of MA study three fundamental stand out: palm strikes, elbow strike, and eye gouges are devastating. Controlling the offender to the ground puts him in the most vulnerable position possible because he can be stomped to death or permanently maimed. Chokes and submission techniques are effective, but stomps are deadly. Danylewich demostrate a series of physical resistence techniques: basic stances, palm strikes, palm heel, finger claws to the face, eye gouges, groin grab, forearm groin strike, and frontal and back elbow strikes. Groin kicks can sometimes make the opponent madder, instead kick the knee cap. Longer distance weapons are explored, such as, front snap kick, side kick, and back kick. The author effectively illustrates and describes techniques against front and back grabs, chokes, and hugs. ...
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