Do women's self defense classes actually work?

My wife has no confidence and low-self esteem, due to an abusive childhood. She tells me she feels victimized by people all the time due to her lack of self confidence and low self esteem. She feels affraid and vunerable towards a lot of people. do self defense classes really build self confidence and self esteem and teach you to say "NO" to people?

Do women's self defense classes actually work?
I believe it would be a help...it sounds like your wife may also benefit from some therapy also....
Reply:She would DEFINITELY benefit from martial arts. It will give her confidence, and help her feel more empowered. I would reccomend Tae Kwon Do, or Karate.
Reply:Absolutely!! I agree with the first answer as well.
Reply:Simple and short answer: ''NO''
Reply:Yes, or something similar to self defense classes. I had to take a defensive tactics class as part of my post academy, and it made me a strong person. I developed a thick skin as well. I also came from an abusive home and had the same low self esteem problem. Good Luck
Reply:A self defense class will empower her in any situation where she feels physically threatened. She will need assertiveness training to help with the self-esteem issues, though. A self-defense class will probably not do that for her.
Reply:I would say no, she would do better on a sports team (casual of course) than she would learning how to assault people. There is much more self-esteem to be gained being part of a group, and an essential member of said group, than there is in hurting someone.
Reply:Depends only martial arts class that might work for a woman is jiujitsu.
Reply:She would benefit. But women's ability to engage in serious hand to hand combat with men is rarely improved enough by even serious study of the martial arts.
Reply:It sure as hell worked for me. I can walk around downtown and fear nothing. In your wife's case, it might take more than that, but it can only be a positive influence on her.
Reply:Rio, if you think a dense class or two makes you invincible, you're insane. You need to be careful - someone double your weight probably won't be stopped by your little karate kick.
Reply:Geoffery: Beg pardon?





Michelle: You are wrong to assume that a woman trained in martial arts can't whip the hell out of a larger man. Crank much?
Reply:Some of the answers are hilarious. If she's delusional enough it might give her a false sense of confidence or something (note that the same women, delusional enough to think they work also think feminism is about equality). Personally I think they suck, they're the crap styles (incidentally tae kwan do is the most crap of all styles I'm aware of unless there is one where you punch yourself in the face that I haven't heard of) and they pander to them and hardly teach them how to punch.





An ex girlfriend of mine beat up some chick that got a brown belt from some all girls school for hitting on me and considered it so easy to find her training highly amusing (funnily enough I think it was tae kwan do or karate that she did haha), and my sister seemed to have no problem punching some chick who'd done a whole bunch of those classes in the face and tossing her into a patch of broken glass (for hitting on her boyfriend).





As for regular schools, you do realise there are umm men there that are umm "macho" and stuff right?





You know what happens to strong empowered womyn who go to a decent martial arts school, they get beaten down by guys with a lot of pent up aggression until the instructors ban us from sparring with them.





Favourite line from some butch army skank (sparring with someone unnamed who had been there shorter than she had):





"Woo okay you got me but it won't happen again... [1 second later].. HEY! That had a fair amount of power in it, if that had hit me.. [1 second later] ..STOP IT JUST RELAX .. do it like this.. [ 1 second later] .. NO THAT'S TOO HARD, I'll have to ask to have you put with someone else if you do that again...[1 second later..]...waahaaahaha"





So, the answer is no. Send her to a psychiatrist, after you dump her for being a fruit loop with issues that I personally wouldn't bother dealing with.





Incidentally, if you want to know whether a butch chick, or even two butch chicks can take on a guy, have a look at this:





http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/113342...





Again, to some of the answers on here: HAHAHAHAHAHAH