Empowered: How a Woman Can Escape Any Attack

Many believe that women wouldn't be able to overpower a man using martial arts self-defense techniques.

But that idea is just not true. Gracie Jiu Jitsu was created to achieve just that.

Women Empowered, the official Gracie self-defense program for women, teaches women how to neutralize the 15 most common attacks. Those attacks range from having your hair grabbed to being pinned to the ground by a weapon-bearing assailant.

Unlike most self-defense systems that rely heavily on strength, speed, and coordination, the techniques in the Women Empowered program employ leverage, technique, and timing, so anyone -- regardless of age or athletic ability -- can make them work against larger opponents.

Rener Gracie, one of the head instructors at Gracie Academy, spoke with CBN News about this form of martial arts, a form his great grandfather started.