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All right, I appreciate you all coming. For some of you, this is your first time here. What
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we're doing here is a class that's designed specifically for women to deal with a sex offender. Again, the idea is
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to understand the sex offender behavior, the underlying fantasy for what they do,
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and then turn the tables on him and use that information against him during uh your escape attempt. He's grabbed me
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from behind. Oh, no. So, I took my knowledge of sex offenders along with my self-defense teacher's knowledge about
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self-defense, and we married him together to say, "Okay, let's develop a class."
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Hold on to your arms. Victoria's story was actually a part in the development of it.
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Victoria is a very was 19 years old at the time, just out on her own, and she did a lot of things that helped her
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survive. And what we're doing, we're going to draw from that case and a bunch of other ones that I've worked to tell
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you what she did to survive. Because at 19 years old, she had no formal training, nothing whatsoever, but she
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had a will to live. Just push me anyway. Just push. Yeah, I talk about Victoria a
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lot and a couple of other my my my victims a lot for their ability to not become psychologically captured. And
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that's a big thing. But once you become psychologically captured, you're not thinking about escaping.
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Going to push here and eventually I'm going to let go. Don't let him psychologically capture you. Now, you
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may become physically captured. Victoria was physically captured. Two guys grabbed her. Okay, one of them actually
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put his finger into her eye socket and drug her about her skull. Okay, that's kind of a game ender right there as far
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as being able to resist, but she fought back anyway. There you go. One, two, three, come on. Even though she's being
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beaten unmercifully by these guys and they're telling her they're going to kill her, she wasn't going to believe
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it. She wasn't going to buy it. She's just a fighter. And that that's what we need to instill
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here. Also, bring push push push is keep moving, keep thinking. Eventually, you're going to get away.
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And that's what Victoria did. Excellent example of self-defense. She made up stories about children she didn't have.
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She made up all anything she could think of. She kept thinking all the time. All
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the time to delay them killing her. They need to take away that they can defend themselves.
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There you go. Come on. Push me. And self-defense doesn't mean gouging some guy's eyes out or something. That's
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a part of it obviously. But what it means is I can be aware enough to where I can see the guy coming to me. I can
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see the threat coming to me. Punch me someplace and I can misdirect it. I think I'm a little bit lower. Okay.
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Okay. Most sex offenders have pre-planned. The assault and the pre-planned aka the
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fantasy is always perfect. Well, if you the reality becomes not perfect because you interrupt the plan, he doesn't know
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how to think on his feet enough to adapt. So, what we need to do is teach women that you can defend yourself.
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There you go. You can do it. It's okay. We're done. Thank you, ladies. [Applause]