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Although
our adult Kenpo classes have many dedicated women students we decided
to have a specific class for women's self-protection. According to the
Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker the number one cause for women to go to
the emergency room is partner abuse..
Our objectives are to help prevent violence against women by increasing
our understanding of this terrible epidemic, changing attitudes and teaching
practical self-protection sills. Women learn that empowerment is more
than a word and more than striking a padded attacker in the groin, its
about finding out what you are capable of, facing your fear, and managing
your limitations. We also discuss crime, fear and adrenal stress management.
Verbal, emotional and physical partner abuse, rape, date rape, stalking
harassment, and abduction scenarios are discussed while we develop action
plans for these scenarios and educate our intuition. Students learn to
use fear as a weapon and as a tool by learning the most common methods
used by attacker's, and how to avoid fitting the victim profile. Each
class has an information portion, discussion, and development of verbal
and physical skills from standing to ground encounters and how to deal
with an attacker's use of a weapon.
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