I have read and observed training to counter-rape that is nothing short of alarming. Basing skills to counter violent sexual offenders on combat sports that are gender and weight category controlled is dangerous and shows a lack of knowledge of predatory sexual offending and what is required to neutralise such threats.
Basing skills on a lot of traditional fighting techniques when up against an attacker that is not only much bigger stronger and is prepared to do their victim serious harm is high risk, dangerous and could be the worst mistake a victim of serious sexual violence ever makes.
Possibly people providing training based on competitive combat sports or traditional fighting arts may be doing so from the goodness of their hearts, but not from intelligent thinking based on the reality of the facts of the threat.
Judo, boxing, wrestling, BJJ, and MMA are all competed in gender categories and weight divisions and for very good reasons.
How many of these good hearted training providers have hands on experienced serious street fights and have been trained in the combative smarts and skills required to neutralise an aggressor bigger stronger committed to getting what they want and potentially armed?
By street fights, I don’t mean pushing and shoving, a punch here and there and rolling around on the ground. I mean facing a formidable foe bent on doing you serious bodily harm, who won’t stop until you are finished or have finished them off.
The best of dirty and deadly tactics and skills to neutralise a predatory sexual offender are required, not take on fight techniques such as punching, martial arts kicks, and certainly not throws. You need to remember that any techniques used if ineffective will only increase the risk and danger. If your fight take on techniques don’t stop the sexual predator in their tracks they most likely will do you serious physical harm and then sexually violate you or worse.
The safety pin or hair clip tactically used to employ multiple pokes in the eye would be far more effective than attempting to punch, elbow, or roundhouse kick a predatory sexual offender that out weighs their victim by considerable and is prepared to go to any lengths to get what they want.
How many of these people conducting such training are skilled in preventative anti-encounter tactics that should be the first consideration or can provide sound mental toughness instruction including extreme violence psychological enhancement practices, so the victim can overcome their fears and do what must be done.
I have seen interviews with individuals who call themselves coaches, which sounds very sporting giving advice on what to do if you think you are being followed or if some stranger whistles at you that run the risk of increasing risk by escalating the danger. They foolishly promote confrontation over discreet avoidance tactics. They forget the stranger could be emotionally disturbed and by approach and direct confrontation this could be the trigger that sets them off.
Whether out of blind stupidity, ego, to earn revenue or for any other reasons or motives, providing training to counter such high risk threats without the prior required specialist training expertise, qualification and experience is irresponsible and shows a lack of care for those that may be at high risk if they ever have to use such risky ineffective techniques against a predatory sexual offender.
If they really care about protecting people against sexual violence you would hope they would put in the considerable time effort and personal sacrifice to become a qualified instructor armed with the best knowledge and skills to give victims of sexual violence the best chances of avoiding and if this is not possible neutralising such threats.
This requires the smarts commitment and dedication on the want to be instructors part and not just going with what they know. The right tactics and tools to as safely and effectively as individually humanly possible neutralise the threat are what is required.
You do not become an instructor over a weekend or a few weeks or several months in specialist skills required to defeat serious violence when the victim is truly the underdog.
To outline this, take for example Todd Group military CQC proponents of dirty and deadly combative tactics and skills, who must have completed all required courses of instruction plus pass all the related rigorous testing. Then they must complete specialist training subjects specific courses like D-WAR (declare war against rape anti- and counter- serious sexual violence) to be qualified to provide such training. Their mandatory hours to be basic, advanced, and specialist qualified are over 1000 training hours.
The nature of the beast in neutralising unpredictable high level threat violence demands instructor high level knowledge, participation in training, commitment and achieved qualification.
Serious threats require the best and most proven means of threat neutralisation.
