Lioness Method of Rape Prevention

by David A Tomlinson
For Women Only —
The Lioness
Method of Rape Prevention
www.nfa.ca
Some day, the realization may hit you, “My God! I’m about to be raped, mutilated, or killed!” I hope that never happens;
but it is simple fact that 27 per cent of all Canadian women can expect to be sexually assaulted (statistics from Metro
Action Committee on Public Violence Against Women and Children, 1991) if our violent crime rates get no worse. The
figure went up by 69 per cent from 1979 to 1989 (Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, 1991), and is still increasing,
by 7 to 8 per cent per year.
When a rape begins, there is no one there but you and the rapist. When it ends, there is still no one there but you and
the rapist. When it ends, you will be dead, or alive but physically and emotionally shattered, probably permanently. You
may also be pregnant, or under sentence of death from the AIDS infection he just gave you. Rapists don’t use condoms.
The police don’t come during a rape; they come afterward. It is vanishingly rare to find an instance where a rape has
been interrupted or prevented—by anyone but the intended victim.
When that realization hits you, you have ten seconds. Within ten seconds, your attacker should be incapacitated,
unconscious, or running for his life; or you’ve probably lost. A good fight is short, sharp,
and decisive, not a movie-style brawl. Would you like to learn how to end your
rapist’s career?
If you believe that you cannot injure another human being, this training is
not for you. If you believe that it is proper to stop a violent criminal to
save yourself and others, it is.
Your attacker is usually larger and stronger than you. He is also
usually totally untrained in fighting, which is to your advantage. He
didn’t even learn the feeble fighting methods of school children; if
he had ever been able to merit the respect of his peers, he
wouldn’t attack women in order to feel powerful.
You have effective weapons, which you carry everywhere you go.
You are perfectly capable of stopping your attacker—if you know
how to use the weapons built into your own body. However, you
must learn to use your strengths against his weaknesses.
You will not learn many tricks here, just enough to defeat almost
all rapists. Caution: Practice-with-a-partner for hitting methods is
wrong; if you do that, you will do on the day what you do in
practice, not what is right. You’ll hit the rapist exactly as you hit
your practice-partner—without injuring him.
Heel stomp
Note: Tight skirts prevent heel stomps!
The most powerful muscles in your body are your leg muscles.
The most powerful blow you can deliver is a heel-stomp. To do
one, draw your heel up as far as you can, then try to drive it
through the target at high speed. It should be used against the
most vulnerable part of a man—and that’s not what you think.
Men spend their entire lives learning
to avoid blows to their testicles; their
reflexes are well developed, and fast.
It’s a bad choice of target for blows,
but you can sometimes attack it with
a hand which moves into place
unnoticed—then grabs and squeezes
with all the force at your command.
That works well.
Men spend their entire lives learning
that people do not step on each
other’s feet; so their foot-protecting
reflexes are poor. Also, he has to
take his weight off the foot before he
can move it. A foot is terribly
vulnerable; your smashing heelstomp to his instep will crush
tendons, and break or severely
bruise several small bones. A man
with such a severely damaged foot
can’t catch you, and probably won’t
even try. Small hard high heels are
more damaging, but even soft rubber
heels are devastating.
The heel stomp uses the strongest
part of your body to damage one of
the weakest parts of his; and that
principle is used in everything you’ll
learn here. The heel-stomp can be
used from almost any position; even
against a man holding you from
behind.
You just learned how to do major
damage—and it requires little
practice. Practice the heel-stomp,
using full force on an old stuffed
shoe, not a partner. Do not learn to
go easy! Always use full force.
Knee Dislocation
If you have been
knocked to the
ground, don’t try to
get up. Double up in
faked fear, then use
your heel stomp
against his kneecap.
It’s easy to smash a
knee backwards;
and the damage you
do is severe. Once
he goes down, then
get up and depart.
Choke break and
Counterattack
If your attacker grabs you by the throat with both hands, cup one hand
into the other, making a double hammerfist at waist level; throw your head
back and then drive upwards with both arms. As your angled forearms hit
his arms, his hands will be thrown outward and away. Then use your
hammerfist downward to smash his nose. Next, your forehead is the face
of a 10-kilo hammer; so hammer it into what’s left of his nose with all the
strength you have. The results are devastating. You may be bruised, or
even have a superficial cut; but he’ll have a broken nose, a severe
nosebleed, and his eyes won’t be working well for some time.
Wrist break
When grabbed by the wrist, break
free: A man’s arm is stronger than
your arm, but your arm is stronger
than his thumb. If you try to move in
a line, he is stronger, and you’ll fail.
Move your fist, very quickly, in an
8 inch (20 cm) circle. If he’s huge,
grab your captive wrist first to use
two-arm power. He will always be
trying to fight what you were doing a
moment ago, but your circle is now
going in a new direction. Soon, you
will get to the position where he
cannot follow your movement any
further; your wrist folds his thumb
back and breaks out. Practice that
with a partner.
There are several ways he can grab
you: right hand holding your right
wrist, from under or from over; right
holding your left, under or over; etc.
For each, the sequence is the same:
look at it, make a fist, then circle
toward his thumb—which may mean
starting upward or downward,
clockwise or counterclockwise. If you
go the wrong way, don’t worry. It still
works, you just have to circle a little
further around. You do practice
breakouts with a partner; but not this:
always deliver a heel-stomp as you
break free, so that you can run and
he cannot. Then depart.
Waist hold from
rear break
If you are grabbed from behind around your waist, pry
his finger up into your fist (if possible, one from each of
his hands in your two hands) then snap his finger
backwards to dislocate it. A man with a dislocated
finger on each hand finds it hard to hit, hold, or grab
you—so depart.
Break from arm lock
If your attacker is a trifle more sophisticated, he may twist
your arm behind your back. Bow deeply from the hips,
straighten your captive arm and lock your elbow; then
keep it straight and spin to face him. Deliver a heelstomp; if he’s still got your wrist (unlikely), use a circle
break, then heel-stomp and go.
Break from
Nose
full nelson
smash
You may be grabbed in a full nelson—he puts both arms
under your armpits and then moves his hands upward to
clasp his hands behind your head. Just throw your arms
straight up, and drop straight down. You end up squatting or
sitting on his toes. As you come free, snap your arms down
and back—because you’re now at the base of an unstable
pillar. Grab his ankles, and heave your shoulders backward.
He has no leverage to move his feet to save himself, and so
you can easily topple him in this way. He will either injure his
tailbone, or crunch the back of his head, or both, on impact.
Get up. If practical, heel-stomp his kneecap to further
discourage him, and go.
Stand, and look
to your front, then
bring your hand
up from waist
level, close to
your body, with the fingertips vertical.
Notice that you (he) can’t see it until it
gets to chin level. That is far too late to
try any counteraction. You use that
blind area to drive the heel of your
hand upward into the base of his nose
with maximum speed and force. The
results are extremely bloody, painful,
and temporarily blinding.
That blow ends with your hand above
his head; curl your fingers, and come
back down, raking your nails across his
eyes; then heel-stomp and depart. For
the benefit of those who know a little
about karate, no, you will not kill him. It
is far more difficult to kill with that blow
than some literature suggests.
None of what you have just
learned will do you any good
whatever, if you wait until the
realization hits you to decide
what to do. You’ll take to much
Throat hollow
put-down
time to make the decision.
You must make your decision here
and now. Decide now that: When
this realization hits me: “My God!
I’m about to be raped, mutilated, or
killed!”, I will attack. I will feel
rage but not fear. I will believe that
I am being attacked by an animal
(you are), that my life is in danger
(it is, AIDS or no AIDS). I have the
legal, moral and ethical right and
duty to stop this dangerous animal
before it injures or kills again—and
I will instantly remember all the
Lioness Method material. Yes, you
can do that. It all works. You’re
probably not his first victim, so be
his last. Turn into a lioness.
If you make that decision now,
when the realization hits you,
everything you have learned will
come cascading back into your
mind—sharp, bright, and clear.
Yes, that is true. You will have the
priceless advantage of his shock:
He grabbed a victim, but he’s
holding a raging lioness.
You have just learned how to use
your body as a weapon against a
violent rapist. Now, learn a few
ways to deal with offensive drunks
and men who ignore “No!”—
situations where you don’t need
major damage, just educational
pain to alter bad behaviour.
Put your index finger into
the hollow at the base of
your throat; then push
inward and downward.
One finger doing that
slowly and steadily, will
cause him to go down in
front of you; but jabbing
can damage his
windpipe, so use it
carefully.
Pain lumps
Put your index fingers in the hollows under your
earlobes, and slide them gently up and down. Feel
the pain lump behind your jawbone? Press the
pain lump inward. Ouch!
Slide your thumb forward an inch (2cm) from the
angle of your jaw, then lift the tip of it upward,
inside the jawbone. Squeeze that pain lump
outward against the jawbone.
Place the tip of your thumb under your brow ridge,
above the inside corner of your eye, and rock it
side to side. Feel the tiny pain lump? Squeeze it
gently outward, against the bone.
Put the edge of your hand under your nose, and
push upward and backward, as if trying to slice
your way to the top rear of your skull. Inflict that
pain to move him back, away from you.
What you have just learned much improves
your chances of stopping both violent
attacks and loutish pawing.
Congratulations. You are now a
Lioness
.
Clive, the Rapist - Know Your Enemy
Clive was born into a violent family. He grew up watching
his mother being beaten by his father, and being beaten
himself by both of them. The parents who physically
abused him also verbally abused him. Clive learned,
literally at his mother’s knee, that she who verbally
abuses Clive can and will physically injure Clive.
As he grew, Clive copied his elders. He also used verbal
and physical abuse of others to get what he wanted. He
learned that anyone who accepts verbal abuse will
probably accept physical abuse as well. He also learned
that anyone with enough self-confidence to verbally
abuse Clive would probably physically injure Clive unless
he knuckled under promptly.
Later, Clive went to jail, where his fellow inmates
continued the pattern. They verbally abused him, and
physically injured him if he objected. At gut level, Clive
believes that anyone who roars at Clive loudly and
abusively can and will injure Clive.
When you’re attacked by a rapist, pleading quietly is bad
and only encourages him to force you to do anything he
wants. Screaming will cause him to hit you to shut you up.
Never scream; high tones indicate fear. Roar at him,
indicating rage.
Moving toward him to attack him physically while roaring
obscenities and orders at him will confuse him. You’re
proving you can injure him. His best move is to escape
from you — because if you injure him, he’ll be arrested
when he seeks treatment for his injuries. Don’t corner
him; desperate, he’ll fight. Always leave him room to run
away.
If he were courageous and self-confident, your insults and
orders would not affect him; but he isn’t. Courageous,
self-confident men do not become rapists. Rapists rape
because it is the only way that they can enjoy a feeling of
power, of being in control — it has nothing to do with
sexual pleasure.
Most rapists are cowards, conditioned by their fear of
injury to obey authority figures promptly and
unquestioningly. Take advantage of that fact. Behave like
an authority, and be treated like one — or behave like a
victim, and experience his penis in your vagina, your
anus, your mouth, or all three; pregnancy; AIDS; perhaps
even death. Those are what victims receive.
The other common type of rapist is the “mama’s boy.”
Obviously, these methods also work on him, for slightly
different reasons: He’s not used to verbal abuse, and it
frightens him.
Most rape victims never fully recover from the effects.
They cannot totally separate, in their minds, any other
man from the beast who destroyed their pride and selfconfidence. It is much better not to be raped than to
cooperate in the hope of surviving as a mentally crippled
woman. It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead
lioness, but it is even better to be a live lioness—and
usually easier. Behave like a lioness, and win; you
deserve to win, and stopping Clive will save your sisters.