Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bolton.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!bolton!gordon From: gordon@bolton.UUCP (Gordon Partridge) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Self-defense Message-ID: <162@bolton.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 08:30:57 EST Article-I.D.: bolton.162 Posted: Thu Feb 23 08:30:57 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 02:05:21 EST Organization: GenRad, Bolton, Mass. Lines: 9 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