This weekend we delivered another Women’s only self-defence 1 day course at the Gap Community Centre in Warwick.
We had 14 keen but nervous women attending at 9am ready for a tough full day eager to learn new essential life skills to assist in making them feel more comfortable and confidant in their daily lives.
The day started off with an essential and in-depth presentation on all aspects of self-defence such as situational and environmental awareness, understanding how not to be a victim, understanding the psychology of an attacker, conflict resolution tactics, identification of the different categories of rapists, their psychology and how to deal with this challenging situation.
Learning to have safety awareness in your daily life and the life skills of being able to defend yourself in todays society is essential.
We are pleased to announce that with the C-19 restrictions coming to a close on the 19th July that we are able to start running our Women’s only Self-defence courses again.
These one day courses run from 10am to 5pm on a Saturday and are aimed to empower women in their daily lives by building self-confidence and imparting knowledge and easy to remember and apply self-defence techniques if they are called to do so.
This week we have seen three more knife attacks with fatalities in all cases, Jodie Chesney aged 17 in an unprovoked attack in London and Yousef Makki aged 17 in Manchester. These victims aren’t your typical gang member but young people from good families and neighbourhoods.
Looking at the BBC crime statistics we can see that knife attack rates are the highest they have ever been since records began and where we are based in the West Midlands, we are the second worst area for knife crime in England and Wales with only London being higher!!
Statistics show that violent crime, particularly knife crime, and sexual assault are on the increase. From walking home after work, walking to the local shops, nights out with friends to the growing out door running trend, people are becoming more at risk.
Due to this it is becoming imperative for people to equip themselves with the skills to be more aware of potential situations, diffuse this if possible and if they are unlucky enough to be involved in a violent incident, to be able to effectively deal with that situation.
We will be delivering a self-defence workshop for members and non-members on the 24th February from 10am -12pm at Warwick Space Coten End, Warwick.
This is the time of the year when a great number of people make new years resolutions, a contract to themselves to make positive change in their lives.
I have a great deal of posts popping up on my Facebook feed and a number of them suggesting that this is a bad thing, that it is negative, setting yourself up to fail!!! I would like to put my two penneth in if I may and put a positive spin on it and hopefully help some of you to better succeed.
Watch the attached video of an attack. I like this one as the commentator reiterates many of the messages that I talk about in my classes with my students when we practice self-defence techniques such as:
We get people starting martial arts for all sorts of reasons, general conditioning, fitness, weight loss, learn a new skill, socialisation but we also get people start for psychological reasons - self-confidence, self-esteem, anxiety, to cope with bullying; the martial arts are an excellent tool to assist these people. Due to this sub set of people I have decided to post the below on further supporting these people as every little bit of assistance can help to enable them to cope and improve.
The inventions of apps means we now have mental health tools right in our pockets. Keeping track of your mood, finding ways to cope and monitoring your mental processes are all activities that might sound like a slog, but the majesty of modern technology means they can be fun too.
Here are 5 apps that can really help make a difference when it comes to your mental health:
A great Youtube clip explaining the virtues of learning an effective martial art. It equips you for confrontation:
- You read situations quicker
- You will be calmer, more assured and have better decision making skills
- You react to situations more effectively
- You're more likely to defuse the situation as you don't need to prove yourself
- If the situation escalates you're more likely to deal with that situation for a better outcome.
Training in an effective martial art gives you necessary skill sets to deal with a confrontation if it arrises. Training at Warwick-TKD will meet these needs, why not give us a go.
Warwick-TKD takes students from 8 years old upwards with many parents joining with their children. We have a thriving adult membership with a number of British Champions and a member of the ITF England team.
Not all martial arts schools are the same!Warwick-TKD, Quality, effective martial arts and self-defence in a fun friendly atmosphere. Learn an effective martial art just in case! get fit, lose weight and have fun meeting new people.
