Run by a police officer and a martial-arts expert, W.A.R., or Women Against Rape, is unlike any two-bit, "kick an attacker where it counts" self-defense class of which you have heard.
The rules are simple. Be quick. Be decisive. Be brutal. And the training is true to those goals. It is not karate disguised as rape prevention.
DIANA GRIEGO ERWIN
Featured columnist Orange County Register & Sacramento Bee

As one student - who must have weight about 100 pounds put it: We’re here because were scared. However, 'If it ever happens to me, I'm going to be the one who walks away.'
The scenarios are as realistic as they can make them. When they are playing the role of attackers, their performances are award-winners,

even to such detail as wearing shirts that have the stink of the gutter.
There is violence and foul language, and sometimes there are tears and bruises and maybe a little blood.

But its training every woman should have – must have, I think – and pray she never needs to use it.
Fred Martin
The Newport Beach – Costa Mesa Daily Pilot

The goal is to avert an attack and prepare women for it if it ever happens, …“We show women what works and what doesn’t.
Lynda Thullen
Fresno Bee

The most realistic self-defense course I’ve seen. A must course for every woman…
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