Self Defense Tips For Women - Nail Claw Techniques

My girl friends are also often asking this:

“Can we use our nails as weapon like in Wuxia films?”

The answer is yes but little different with in the Kungfu movies.

In Kungfu - Wuxia films, the “Claw Style” fighters are often scratching or cutting their opponent brutally into pieces. But in real life, our nails are not strong enough.

In real life Kungfu, we can use our nails as weapon but only with stabbing and squeeze motions. There are lot of Finger Stab and Claw Choke techniques using the power of finger tips to attacking the opponent weak vital points like eyes or front throat. With our sharp nails, it can be extra weapon to make the opponent more hurt (and bleeding).

Nail care make you looks like girly - sissy? Think again!! Even MMA - Boxing - Muay Thai world champs are still afraid with this “Girly Weapon”. In world class fighting sport tournaments, referee and judges are also always inspecting the fighters nail before fight to prevent cheating in the match (Of course, stabbed by “Ladies Claw Kungfu” is hurt you know!!).

Self Defense Tips For Women - Long Dress & Tight Skirt Fighting Techniques

Lot of ladies wonder about this when they're dressed up in long dress or tight skirt (they often ask me): "How do I fight off a creep or a pervert when I'm dressed like this? I can't kick!"

Honestly, leg focused martial arts like Taekkyon, Savate, Beipai Kungfu or Taekwondo are completely ineffective for ladies in this situation. Because the training time of hand techniques is too little, even in some dojos they never teach it.

There are only 4 kicks that can be used by ladies while wearing a long dress or tight skirt: Stomp Kick, Sweep Kick, Groin Kick and Front Knee. The rest? Meeh...impossible! Even Cynthia Khan had to tear her police uniform skirt so she could using her Taekwondo kicks in “In The Line of Duty 3” movie fight scene.

Why do so many dojos teach methods that aren't suitable for ladies? It could be because the founders were all men (who didn't understand or care about the challenges women face) or because women in their countries wore trousers like men (like in Northern China, where women historically wore trousers, allowing them to execute high kicks just like the men).

Back when i was distributing surveys for my thesis (my topic was about Sports Psychology), i also encountered Silat dojos that would only teach men. When i asked why, the instructors said it was because their techniques relied heavily on high kicks, which unsuitable for women self defense.

For the ladies, i recommend hand focused martial arts like Boxing, Hokkien Kuntao, Nanpai Kungfu and Panantukan. Those ancient martial arts are also already proven over centuries in chaotic battles during colossal war era. You can fight the attackers even while wearing a long dress or a tight skirt, can’t do high kicks? No problem!!

Why Bouncing Footwork Is Useless In Real Fight

Bouncing Footwork is a martial art footwork technique where the fighter standing on the front toes and do skipping-like jump. This technique began it popularity since 90s where lot of Korean Taekwondo and European Sport Karate fighters think this footwork make their mobility more agile.

Sadly, Bouncing Footwork isn’t work for real street fight on in open MMA tournament events. Why?

In Taekwondo tournaments, kicking opponent’s leg isn’t permitted, thats why Taekwondo fighters aren’t worry to using this footwork at their own events. In open MMA events where you will fight against opponents from various dojos like Muay Thai-Kungfu-Kickboxing-Silat or event Brazilian Jujutsu, they will strike your leg and you will fall.

In real street fight, you will fight 2-3 attackers. In Taekwondo and Sport Karate tournament, Bouncing Footwork is consume lot of your stamina and breath, imagine if you ran out of breath while fighting 3 thugs and also have no power left in your body to escape. The End.

Look how Muay Thai and traditional Karate fighters move. No bouncing, no skipping, no stamina wasting and they are ready against leg kicks.