Everything Self Defense Columbia, South Carolina

October is Domestic Violence Month! Why does that matter? Because sadly, South Carolina is ranked 6th in the nation for domestic violence! Samurai Karate Studio will be partnering with Sanctity, Inc., a local non profit that helps victims of domestic violence and offering a FREE self defense workshop for women on Monday, October 17, 2011, starting at 7:30pm..  This seminar with be both classroom presentation and hands on training to cover basic techniques of self defense. What you learn, could save your life some day! Classroom presentation will include: The 3 reasons women get attacked Attack indicators What happens to the body during attack Power of your voice Common everyday items you can use to defend yourself On the Mat training will include: How to break free from being grabbed Defense tactics against being choked from the front and behind, bear hugs and hair pulls Every women who participates in this seminar will leave having a much better understandin...

F rom Me to My Friends… On April 7, 2011, I will join between 50 and 100 martial arts master teachers and their students in the small southern town of Greensboro, Alabama. We will put on our work boots and gloves, and begin building a home for an elderly woman in need. I am going to Greensboro because Martin Luther King traveled through there just weeks before his death. I am going there because teacher-architect Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee co-founded the famous Rural Studio in nearby Newbern. I am going there because of the classic book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ; because James Agee wrote about the people of Hale County and because Walker Evans carried his camera down Greensboro’s Main Street. My friends and I are going there because community activist Pam Dorr lives there and heads The Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization (HERO) . We are a group of karate, kung fu, aikido, taekwondo, tang soo do and jiu-jitsu teachers from New Jersey, Hawaii, California, South Carol...