Newbie and BlueReign,
I sympathize with how you feel about the eyes, but I strongly urge you guys to brace yourselves and be ready to do it. If your life and/ or sanity and/ or well-being is on the line, it's worth a second or two of mushy eyeball!
My boyfriend actually makes me practice this all the time. No, I don't actually poke his eye out! But, he pretends to walk up to me and grabs me from different angles and shows me how most ways people will grab you, you can either reach their eyeballs or their other balls...
That point about doing it all the way is true too! especially for the groin area. You have to be brave, grab hard, twist and yank. Even with adrenaline pumping, no guy can stand this!
And with the eyes...they are such a delicate part of the body and it is way beyond just instinct that when someone is coming at your eyes, you flinch and move away. Even a predatory attacker won't be able to avoid his instincts. And if you get the eye, stick your finger in the corner, not directly in the middle. Once the finger is in the corner of the eye, dig in and hook the eye out of the socket. Okay, I know that sounds really, really gross, but it is much less damaging to hook the eye out than to actually pop it and release the optic fluids. Either way, you will definitely get away from the guy, but this way, your a little nicer.
But, you know what, in the melee of it all, just go for the eye and don't worry about if your hooking it or popping it. Start to press really hard and jab, and he'll probably back down before you do a lot of damage...and if he doesn't, well, it sure as hell ain't your fault!
You can do it! A mushy eye vs. your life? Easy choice and I know you can make it if it ever comes down to it!
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