An important fact in self-defence is that every technique has a fail point. If the opponent is taller and stiffer or moves further/closer than your technique allows, then your technique will fail.
To overcome this issue, you have to change, and change doesn't mean you simply move from one technique to another to another, for that is unconnected and will give the opponent more time to tighten the hold or do whatever he is doing.
There is a method behind changing and that is to attack and follow the centre of gravity. Upon receiving an attack, you want to use the most efficient movement to counter-attack towards his centre(s) of gravity. Even if your counter-attacks fail to neutralize the threat right away, you would be gaining the initiative with each moves threatening his centres, forcing him to change against his wish, and thus dictating the terms of the fight. This is, in essence, the theory of war.
It is easy to teach techniques in a lab environment without frictions, where every technique works. It is much more difficult to teach strategy in a field environment where everything is moving and producing frictions. The method to teaching is to use the techniques as building block to illustrate how things can change and how to follow with the changes. With this method, we can also identify bad techniques that don't follow the theory and discard them.
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Can a petite woman wrestle down a much heavier man? Yes, if you know how to wrestle, and, might I add, ouch. Chinese Wrestling is about finesse, not brute force.
Wrestling is also very important in terms of women self-defence. Common concepts about physical engagement such as punching and kicking can only get you so far, because people think they know how to punch and kick without having any concept about distance, biomechanics, and centre of gravity.
In short, this is a way to learn to overcome the fear of getting into close distance and understand how the human body moves in order to establish a pattern, a model of movement in the mind, and above all, gain the ability to call in physics and gravity to your aid.
The next step is to combine punching, kicking, grapple, and wrestling together to eliminate blindspots.
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