Western Standard - Conroy learns how to defend herself from attacks

00:00:00.000 hi we're here at the satori wellness studio to take a self-defense lesson with diana who's been

00:00:12.080 offering them free ever since the attacks on women in calgary have gone up let's go inside

00:00:16.960 okay so the very first thing that i like to teach is just your base obviously when you're just walking

00:00:21.280 down the streets and stuff you're not like welcome out of it right so at any time though you want to

00:00:26.480 be able to like move into your base as soon as possible because if somebody comes and there's

00:00:30.240 an attack on the side that's how it shows you from the front and the back you want to call them you

00:00:35.920 want to be able to jump into your base if your base is basically just like a little bit more than

00:00:40.160 uh like i'm going to move into your knees you want to make sure that your spine is straight

00:00:44.560 like that you're not bent you want to have like a solid question okay any time you don't like

00:00:50.080 farmer to come up to a different question you want to be able to yeah i'm going to be thinking

00:00:54.320 like something you're going to have to jump into your base and then always bring your attacker

00:00:57.920 in front of you but what happens is if you actually fall start in a squat and then when you fall back

00:01:03.200 i want to keep my chin tucked into my chest like that and then i want to move my arms to breathe

00:01:11.040 so this is so a great job my legs are up my back is still my chin open so that i'm not lacking my head

00:01:19.920 out on the bend the next thing of getting back up so after you fall right there's a safe way to also

00:01:26.400 get back up let me push me really quickly i fell back okay i'm going to use my momentum after my

00:01:33.520 break falls and i'm going to shoot the shoulder if it's my right thigh i'm going to turn my head to the

00:01:39.200 right and then i'm going to guide my leg over my head over my shoulder so a little bit faster is

00:01:51.120 and then my hands are up that's from the front but if it comes from behind if i break fall

00:01:56.640 isn't going to be insane because when i break fall this way i fall to my back

00:02:00.720 i'm going to try to come in the middle and break fall at the same point obviously like this i could

00:02:12.720 try and if it's not working and one at a time isn't working i can do this so i'm going to come

00:02:18.880 i'm going to make the mind for my knees and then i'm going to bring my hands inside see i'm going to

00:02:23.360 shoot them up and then i'm going to come around this is typical of both feet so if you grab even if you

00:02:28.720 got a strong grip and then i broke the structure so if i come in and i can't break the grip but

00:02:34.160 now i'm manipulating your spine i can come in and i can go for a takedown right so it's like now

00:02:39.760 i'm combining my whole body right i'm not just focusing on my hands and my arms but i'm focusing

00:02:45.760 on your hands your arms your spine your legs and your ability to hold your own posture that i say

00:02:53.680 with everybody if you've never done any health defense before doing an hour of gymnasium or

00:02:59.600 doing an hour of health defense will help you no doubt right because you have more mindfulness

00:03:05.120 what do you do techniques that you might remember at the end of the day if you really are serious

00:03:09.520 about health defense and you want to increase and have the highest potential to not have anything

00:03:15.120 happen to you the best way is to practice using the regulator is grabbing so a lot of the time

00:03:20.480 people grab yeah like i'm trying to drive you or food or whatever exactly i'm going to go up

00:03:26.400 i'm going to see my base already okay i'm going to go up and i can also use this hand to grab

00:03:33.200 i'm going to make a fist i'm going to come up grab my own fist and boom you can grab one really strong

00:03:39.280 okay and notice my back didn't go all blades right i had a strong posture i'm going to bring my elbow

00:03:47.920 towards you like that okay you do just one hand first four people and circle yeah and see how your

00:03:54.320 how your body moves stay straight okay yeah that's two on one come to the middle round turn fist and

00:04:03.440 posture yeah you're going to be free to like the other thing you can do too is if you grab up to

00:04:10.240 me okay hit one thing you have a really strong and you're taller so what i'm going to do is i'm

00:04:16.560 going to circle around and i'm going to come in if you kept holding on right i'm going to come under

00:04:22.080 your elbow and i'm going to pull up with this this is a shoulder attack like i can pop your shoulder 0.97

00:04:27.920 because i'm going to try to break away i know it's not working i'm going to bend your arm come

00:04:33.200 underneath it i'm going to secure it so you can't get your arm away to my body go underneath your

00:04:39.120 elbow and i'm going to lift good job how would i do that when you came up and grab your hand 0.83

00:04:44.880 so number one face okay because if i'm like this and you're pulling my hair i'm going to fall down

00:04:50.800 okay so number one is the base number two you're it hurts because you're pulling the hair from my

00:04:56.960 head yeah right so i want to keep my hair to my head a lot of the time to be honest

00:05:03.200 not as many people grab down there but when people are intentional they're trying to like

00:05:07.600 really rip your hair out yeah they're grabbing pliers so when it's higher up you want to grab

00:05:14.720 their hand and pull it to your head okay yeah so the next thing i'm going to do is i'm going to step

00:05:21.840 behind like this and i'm going to come back one of the most important things is like when i come

00:05:29.040 underneath and you're grabbing onto my hair i'm basically coming under and then i want to come

00:05:33.760 back and back so that i can also back the shoulder lock there but i'll have a wrist lock i can break

00:05:38.640 your wrist too so you grab my hair up there and i come with the hand step back back and come to me

00:05:46.080 and behind behind me like this oh yeah see and then you come up yeah and then you also have my wrist

00:05:54.480 oh yeah yeah if someone's behind you you also have to be able to fill out okay like which hand do i

00:06:00.800 have right now and then if you're still moving onto my hair i want to keep it to my head but i'm going to

00:06:15.760 come up oh yeah that's one of the biggest things in my opinion keep your posture because it can go

00:06:34.000 from zero to a hundred really quick if i can't keep myself up i fall down to the ground right

00:06:42.160 while i'm here it hurts but i'm managing to escape up and i'm bringing myself around to a position

00:06:54.400 thank you so much i learned so much

00:07:01.360 i'm here at satori wellness studio i took my very first self-defense class here earlier today

00:07:07.200 and i loved it so much that i had to come back and take another class this evening with professor

00:07:11.760 diana i cannot emphasize enough how much i would recommend it ladies if you want to feel safe

00:07:17.680 come to satori wellness studio i loved it i had an amazing experience and i will definitely be back for

00:07:23.920 thank you so much for more thanks

00:07:31.840 you

Western Standard - July 16, 2021

Conroy learns how to defend herself from attacks

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