Girls' self defense.

Self defense
Over the last day, and this morning block until 11:30 we have been doing self defense. We learnt how to protect ourselves, show the intruder that we are stronger then them. Throughout yesterday we read stories, talked about stories and discussed our own stories. We also learnt venerable areas, areas that will hurt the attacker, trigger points. We learnt kicks and movements with our legs such as the shin scrape, ballerina kick, and the knee kick and normal kicks. We also Learnt punches the harmer one hitting your fist straight on to the attackers noes and pulling away fast, we also learnt the normal punch twisting out arm around and out to attacker. These skills were practiced on boxing equipment so we could see the pain and practice on something, like she said we are not aloud to practice on boys!

 She also taught us to tell a safe adult speak up and not be afraid to talk about it, I came to think that if something like that ever happend to me I would be scared to tell someone but in a way I will, I will speak up about it to a safe adult because she taught me that I would not only be helping myself but others in danger. She also taught us about weapons around us weapons that we could pick up and use on someone around us, a girl in auckland got attacked one night in her bed by a guy she turned around to find a comb picked if up and scraped it across his face, making him drop to the ground as she ran off also taking the comb that had DNA on it then the caught the guy. I think that is amazing because she put the guy away, she also kept her self safe and most likely the others that could be attacked later on in life.

Ali explained to me about the suicide rate it got me very emotional..because I know that some people when the get attacked and can't talk about it and are scared for it to happen again they may harm them selfs.

There are so many brave stories out there of kids that battled the way out of those tough situations,  they put themselves above the attack showed them that it is there body no one else has the rights to touch them with out there connect, even a 7 year old boy that got continually rapped and sexually abused and when she said that I was upset, worried that that little boy may of not been able to tell someone for a while or today could be dead or is now 21 or something and just told someone but no. When he was 7 years old he stock up for himself and told an adult but what killed me the most was that that adult never believed him and made him apologize to the attacker then later on the found out he was sexually abusing that boy, and just to think there could be so many other case's out there like this.

I now know to protect myself stand my ground, stay safe show the attackers im stronger then them. If im ever in that situation and I get out of it, I have full faith in myself that I will and the only person I can thank is not just myself or my muscles but Ali because she taught me to defend myself, and I couldn't thank her enough.