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A Woman’s Guide to Personal Safety

May 6, 2009



See Sally Kick Ass: A Woman’s Guide to Personal Safety

is the girl’s answer on how to be safe in today’s world and provides over 650 helpful suggestions for living safely to easily incorporate into your everyday life. The topics include safety tips for:

- at home
- walking, taking public transportation or in your car
- while shopping or at the office
- keeping children safe
- preventing sexual assault
- dealing with domestic violence
- dealing with a stalker
- preventing identity theft
- traveling safely, both domestic and foreign
- the elderly

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This review is from: See Sally Kick Ass: A Woman’s Guide to Personal Safety (Hardcover)

There are two parts to this book: prevention tips (Attitude/Awareness/Avoidance) and self-defense techniques (Action).

First, the prevention: The author provides a very comprehensive set of personal safety tips to address/avoid almost every dangerous situation you could imagine yourself in…and then some! (Is there anything he hasn’t thought of?) Although I’ve always thought of myself as a “careful” person, I realize now, I could be doing a whole lot more to make myself and my family safer. As I read the book, I repeatedly found myself wondering WHY???…I wasn’t already doing the very things being suggested.

About a week after reading the book, I realized I had started looking at everything (my house, my workplace, my daily routine, etc.) differently…from a more “safety conscious” viewpoint. I wasn’t really thinking about the book, but one day, I caught myself pausing, assessing a certain situation and making an alternative plan of action. I knew then that the book was “working”.

The book would be worth buying on the merits of the prevention tips, alone, but there are also several great self-defense techniques illustrated in the section on “Action”.

The techniques are described, step by step, with photos to illustrate each one. (The close-ups of certain Aikido “hand-techniques” are especially helpful!) The photos are a good guide for actually learning the technique; the reader should get with a partner to “try them out” and see how it feels to apply them, and by taking turns…also feel what it’s like to be on the receiving end of the action. It’s surprising how powerful these basic Aikido techniques are; they’re simple, direct and “to the point”.

Although specifically directed toward women, a lot of the safety tips would benefit anyone…regardless of gender. The book addresses safety issues for children, teenagers, the elderly and…even has a special section on foreign travel (a very important issue these days!). I’ve already given several copies to friends and family. Quite simply: it doesn’t get any more complete than this! Go, Sally…GO!!!
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This book focuses primarily on doing all the things so that you never have to demonstrate your self-defense skills, but it does teach you how to handle an assailant if necessary.

See Sally Kick Ass: A Woman’s Guide to Personal Safety

Written by SelfDefenseWatcher · Filed Under Womens Self Defense 

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