I took a self defense class my seior year of high school right before graduation. It was very informative. A class mate arranged it after we learned that a girl who graduated ahead of us had been date raped in college.
The class focused a lot on street smarts and how to keep your head in an attack. We also learned some physical defensive moves that either were to our advantage being smaller than our attacker or that did not matter if our attacker was bigger. I find I still use alot of it in my everyday life walking through the city being aware of my surroundings.
For the pepper spray peopl/mace people be careful. I hope younever, ever have to use it. Make sure you know the expiration date on it and that you do not fire it into a breeze and inadvertantly disable your self making you more vulnerable to an attacker. It happens all the time.
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