Pretty Deadly Podcast

How to teach self defense to disabled people. **This is our final episode of Season 7! Thank you for listening and happy new year!"

Facts about disabled people

Fallacies about disabled poeple

What to look for and how to adapt for:

• No/low vision
• Deafness
• Physical disability
• Wheelchairs
• Prosthetics

It’s really all about balance. Everything else follows.

You have been listening to the Pretty Deadly Podcast. You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our summer certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com/selfdefensetrainer – all one word.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission by the artists.

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Ok, so targets. What are we really aiming for?

• Small moving targets
• Precision & training
• Relation to honor
• False beliefs around targets
• Energy of targets & how it damages
• Looking for results

What happens when you remove the targets? 

You have been listening to the Pretty Deadly Podcast. You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our summer certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com/selfdefensetrainer.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission by the artists.

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Self defense and honour – what exactly are we defending, when we’re defending ourselves?

Male honour projected onto women and assuming same value, but also male honour in terms of owning women’s bodies

But this doesn’t compute for women. Let’s look at it in terms of traditional roles:

Lineage doesn’t pass through the woman.

• honor killings
• male punishment for breach of honor [my kids, my wife]
• why this is exclusionary

What women actually care about and how we interpret honor: the right to occupy our own space.

You have been listening to the Pretty Deadly Podcast. You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our summer certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com/selfdefensetrainer – all one word.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission by the artists.

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Self defense? Or retailiation? What’s the difference and how do you know?

For self defense it’s pretty simple:

• Verbal warnings
• Only when boundaries are crossed
• When all warnings ignored
• Self defense as a last resort (physical), never a first response – 

Which brings us to retaliation: it’s after the fact: 

1. It’s an eye for an eye mentality
2. It’s punishment

And you’re doing it because you couldn’t defend yourself in the moment and you’re either humiliated, ashamed or dishonored. 

And how we’re getting a little closer to the real reason women’s self defense classes rarely work. But that’s for next week.

You have been listening to the Pretty Deadly Podcast. You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our summer certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at Pretty deadly self defense.con forward slash selfdfensetrainer – all one word.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission by the artists.

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This episode talk about the role of anger in self defense.. 

This episode talks about:

• Real-life situation when threat to life is imminent: no emotions
• Men vs women defintion of self defense 
• Traditional self defense classes 
• Why "tap into your rage!" is not a good idea
• The size female rage

It can help with training, but it's not ideal to make it a requirement for self defense.

You have been listening to the Pretty Deadly Podcast. You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our summer certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com/selfdefensetrainer .

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission of the artists.

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A couple of episodes back I talked about training self defense and the female anatomy. In this episode, we're looking at sexual dynamics in self defense training and how it can backfire on women.

This episode talks about

• Sexualization as a way to dominate

• Ego vs. education

• When the teacher is threatened by student's skills

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission from the artists.

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In the last episode, I talked about where we use self defense in everyday life, and in this episode my guest Else Kramer is going to talk about where she uses self defense and her martial arts training in her life as an executive coach, creative mind, solo traveler, philosopher, and mom.

Else lives in the Netherlands, where she runs her consulting, creative coaching and podcasting business, Managing the Smart Mind. You can find her work and even hire her at her website, https://coachkramer.org.

This episode talks about martial arts and

• Boundaries
• Confidence
• People pleasing
• Creative workshops
• Childbirth!

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission by the artists.

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Last week we talked about our biological self defense systems. Continuing from that subject, let’s talk about where else we use self defense in our daily lives!

This episode talks about:

• Learned self defense examples: putting our hand on a hot stove
• Situational awareness: petting a growling dog
• Strategic thinking: crossing the street against traffic
• Intuition, recognition and pheremones

You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our summer certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at https://prettydeadlyselfdefense.com/selfdfensetrainer.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission by the artists. 

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This week, we're talking about our biological self defense system -- what is it? Where does it live? How does it work? Can we trust it?

This episode talks about:

• Slimy food - crows & us & sense of smell
• Sickness & vomit
• Sleep: systems check
• Intuition: data
• Shaking: wake up the muscles, – dark alley story
• Fight flight freeze or fawn: and women being “nice” 
• Shame is also a self defense system
• Foetal position is the only natural one

You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our summer certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at Pretty deadly self defense.con forward slash selfdfensetrainer – all one word.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission by the artists.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.