Thursday, May 6, 2010

Daddies Little Girl



A couple weeks ago I was visiting with a good friend and his family who live down South, he told me a couple exciting things related to their experience training in Commando Krav Maga. Several months ago, he happened to bring his teenage daughter to one of the full day CKM classes. Because my friend and his family live several hundred miles away, they have been practicing on their own. He told me they both were excited about what they learned here in Albuquerque and practice every now and then.

He was excited about the way his daughter had grown over the last few months. He explained that her attitude, school work and the way she carried herself were all positively affected.

She is about a 100 lbs. She had been telling her boy friend (who is about 220 lbs) that she had learned to defend herself from larger attackers in a weekend seminar, and her and her dad practice it still. She had even told him she could take him down and choke him out. I got the impression that he was really not impressed with her talking. He was in total denial. He told her, no way she could get him down and hurt him. It took some persuasion on her part to get him to try.

She convinced him to attack her, at which point she threw him down so hard that some people at school thought it was a real fight. The young (x-boy friend) man was stunned from the throw, then to add embarrassment to the situation further she continued choking him, forcing him to give up. She said, he gave up and then they had to explain to the teachers it was just self-defense practice and that they were not fighting.

Having a daughter just a few years younger than her, I enjoyed what I was hearing. What dad does not want his daughter to be able to defend herself? This is exactly the confidence and attitude we want every person who trains with us to develop. We have genuine concern for ladies and children as they are way more likely to be singled out by violent people. We encourage everyone to train, maybe this story will encourage some of you parents to get involved with your teenagers. Train your entire family, increase your fitness and develop confidence while training to win violent street and combat attacks.