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From: gordon@bolton.UUCP (Gordon Partridge)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Self-defense
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Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 08:30:57 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 23 08:30:57 1984
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A well-placed kick can be very effective.  In the 1840's, a famous ballet
dancer, Fanny Ellsler, was touring the U.S.  She was performing in
Washington, DC (where Congress adjourned its sessions so members could see
her dance).  An attacker confronted her; she responded with a grand
battement, the high ballet kick that normally reaches up to the dancer's
shoulder level at a minimum.  In this case, it ended in the attacker's rib
cage, and he died a few days later.

Gordon Partridge, GenRad, Inc., Mail Stop 98, Route 117, Bolton, MA  01740