[Post Toasties]

Wouldn't the knee be stronger for women?:)

[DumpsterDiver]

Knees, elbows, the heel of your hand applied to the nose of the aggressor, fingernails, biting, stomping down hard with your foot on the perp's instep and above all... fight dirty and fight to inflict pain and injury!

And then go back to shopping. :-)

[christie]

Wouldn't the knee be stronger for women?:)

I guess that depends on whether you are grabbed from the front or from behind.

[NYFriend]

The article is misleading. The Elbow, specifically the forarm portion, is the hardest or most solid part of the human body. You're right that a forearm shot dosn't hit as hard as other strikes, like a stomp on an attacker whose on the ground. I don't know if an upward knee hits harder than a kick or puch. Each kind of strike has prefered targets though, and a woman can probably hurt a male attacker worst with a knee to the groin than a forearm blow to the chest (figuring the woman is shorter and will have a harder time hitting the attacker up high in the chin or nose.)