When you think you are tough , somebody are tougher than you.
Street Karate is not a style. It's a set of potent Karate Techniques for real life applications against common acts of violence.
Here are some basic guidelines for Karate women practicing Karate bunkai of Street Karate:
1. Focus more on open hand techniques such as palm-heel strike, elbow strike and knife-hand chop against vulnerable targets on the head and body.
2. Discard techniques that require some degree of strength to work like choking, grabbing, grappling, throwing, punching and etc. Instead use spitting, slapping, poking, clawing, stomping, kneeing, sweeping, head butting, or even biting.
3. Also discard techniques that require fine motor skills because you might not be able to execute such moves under extreme stress or high adrenaline. In fact you might "freeze in fear". This includes certain complex joint-locks or throws, high kicks, jumping kicks, spinning kicks and etc.
4. Focus on learning and practicing Karate Shotokan kata which have techniques against many types of grabs, chokes, bear hugs and other habitual acts of violence commonly being perpetrated against women.
5. Augment your skills with pressure points strikes especially those that can cause the assailant to reel in sharp pain and temporarily forget about you, or lose control of his limbs and mobility.
6. Make full and aggressive use of distraction techniques like spitting the face, cupping the ears, poking the eyes, stomping the feet, or even slapping the groin.
7. Learn to escape from the ground when being mounted, pinned down or held down. Once free, learn of get up fast and maintain the best defensive position/posture (since you already know the assailant intend to mount/pin/hold you down).
8. The last technique is also the most important technique - RUN !
