Hitting or grabbing a guy in the groin?

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I'm starting to think a little about self-defense when I come home late from a club. My girlfriend says a good kick or squeeze in the balls would be enough to put a guy down for the count, but my boyfriend says it hurts a lot but would probably make the guy really mad.

Does anybody have any actual experience (giving or receiving)? Especially, was the guy really incapacitated? How long was the guy down for? What were the circumstances?

Basically, I think my boyfriend is being a little cocky (ha, ha), but I don't want to really test it on him.

Thanks,

Gen

Don't do it at all...not only is it very painful, but some guys don't fall down, then take the pain and that would just enrage the guy to wanna hurt you in some form. Plus, you could serious ruin hit testicles making them irreversably damaged.

i was gonna say. You can kick me in the groin all you want, it would hurt liek hell, but i could deal with it. I mean it works on 30% of guys...maybe more , not sure, but it is not a life saving technique...unless you want to piss him off more, which could work because then you can use a form of Karate to center yourself and take advantage of his rage induced attack. Am I rambling?

It’s not the best strategy. It is painful but pain alone is not automatically incapacitating. Work on a front snap kick to the sternum. It can make it very difficult for your opponent to breath for a bit. Bear in mind that no single manoeuvre is foolproof or will work in all circumstances.

Go for the other two balls....eyeballs, lol . They're guaranteed to incapacitate an attacker long enough for you to get away.

all i have to say is pray you do not get an ex-football player, like a lineman, b/c you just can't do enough to us. We get poked in eyee, kicked in balls, wind knocked out of us, cut, broken, concussed, etc...Do a combination of kicking in balls and something else. higher chances of getting away.Or give him blue balls...HAHAHA

I just read the subject of your post and thought - WHY!?!?!