Wow if u are worried that an elbow is going to make him angrier imagin how angry kick in the nuts will make him lol.
Do learn to read dipshit. *I* NEVER said *I* was worried about making an attacker angry with me. I'm not worried about making him angrier with an elbow -- an elbow is NOT the strongest part of the body and I challenged that stupid statement that an elbow is stronger, from someone who heard that was taught in self-defense classes.
I give a shit about him being angrier and kicking him in the balls, shocks his nervous system and incapacitaes him. THough I don't just use that move, I use an elbow to break out of a hold, but it's not taught "instead" of a kick in the balls. I've YET to take a self-defense class where kicking someone in the balls is shunned. It's not the only move that is taught. It's never used as the strongest point of an attack.
psst. I have done it and done it with several attackers - never, ever do I think "oh ... let me use an elbow to spare his balls - for someone trying to rip my pants off? I might be charged with a sexual assault for kicking him there.." What the fuck? Are you serious?
I'm using EVERY move to protect myself - verbal, deflection, humor and physical defense, to include a full force kick in the balls to knock HIM the fuck out so I can get out of there safely.
Worried? Me? that's laughable. I've kicked in the balls, the head, the gut, the skull - whatever I can - but never, NEVER, do I think spare an attacker's balls.
I think this thread is bullshit, b/c it's as if the author thinks it's common place for us to kick men in the balls for trivial reasons.
And I reject someone telling me what they heard is taught in self-defense, versus taking one.