Women's Self Defense and Pressure Points If you decide to take a women's self defense course you will be given a variety of tools in which you can defend yourself from a would be attacker or assailant. You will be taught non-violent methods such as using a whistle or sound blaster. You will be taught avoidance techniques such as avoiding places where you might be attacked or avoiding situations in which you will be tricked into going to a place where an attack might take place. A Taser is a non-lethal weapon that uses compressed nitrogen to shoot out tethered needle probes that when applied can deliver an electric shock that will disable your assailant. Women's self-defense experts say that this is the most effective way to stop an attacker in their tracks and could possibly save your life. Hopefully you will be heard and someone will come to your defense. Another way to make yourself heard in your arsenal of women's self defense tactics is to use an artificial noise maker. A whistle is a good choice because the noise can be heard from a long distance. You can wear the whistle around your neck and it can be easily gotten to in case of an attack. Excessive drug use or alcohol use can spur these attacks, but the amount of stress that society puts upon our daily lives may just cause your partner to snap. You need to be ready when the moment comes so that you can protect what is precious to you, your dignity, your body, and your life. A women's self defense course can be easily found within your community. In the past, the prospective date would be known to the woman, or at least known by the woman's friends or relatives. In this instance, one could be relatively assured that their date would treat them well and behave like a gentleman. Today, though, the "blind date" can be an individual who has actively misled the woman by falsifying his intentions, past bad behaviors, and even criminal convictions. The assault may come from a stranger, but most of the time the violence is from a person the woman knows or from her own family. There were almost five million acts of violence reported in the United States last year which involved women twelve years old and older. Three quarters of women who were attacked while by themselves and half of the women attacked by multiple assailants were attacked by people that they knew.