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there's not much that feels better than
knowing you can take care of yourself
mentally financially and physically and
taking a self-defense class can not only
keep you safe but can build confidence
improve your physical conditioning and
so much more and coming up next week
Fleet Feet roanoke is putting on a
woman's safety clinic and joining us
with more is the person teaching that
class sergeant Jennifer Boswell thanks
so much for coming on so what are some
things that you want people to know
about their own personal safety you know
I think everyone knows what to do they
just need to be told that they're doing
the right thing you know
are they you're looking around you're
keeping your purses zipped up so people
can't get to your wallets and keys and
valuables and that kind of thing you see
something suspicious you're reporting it
or you're at least keeping that in mind
so you're creating distance between
whatever suspicious is going on or
you're getting away from that all
together I love how you say that we
already know what to do we just have to
be reminded because you know fear does
take over it does a lot of us it does so
you know it's our muscle memory too that
our fighter flights going to kick in and
we've got to listen to our guys we've
got to do the things we're already doing
we just got to have confidence doing it
so you're probably already taking care
of yourself I just want to tell you
you're doing the right thing and
improving upon that okay so what are
some holiday shopping tips that you have
for people because we're gonna be out
and about all right so you got shop at
the mall yeah yeah let's go there oh
you're gonna have credit cards and cash
and that kind of thing on your right
where do you keep that on you in my
purse my purse or if you have in your
wallet that you just keep the wallet
itself on you try not to put in your
back pocket if you do have a person
that's slung over your shoulder make
sure it's zipped up someone can't come
behind you and just snatch that out more
of an over-the-shoulder type purse yeah
that's better because that it kind of
rests more here in front which is a
harder area to get to and that's what we
want we make it more difficult so our
saying is for police officers what's to
our advantage
the suspects disadvantaged so the same
thing for you guys make everything to
your advantage
think about what is the most difficult
way can I can I make this for a bad guy
to come in and take something from well
don't want an easy target right I mean
people only want right right right they
want it easy quick and now I'm not
seeing I'm not heard they can't describe
me to the police when they get there
that's the kind of things they're
looking for if you're gonna carry your
purse what's in that purse if there's
stuff that's not needed in there uh-huh
let's get rid of it if there's credit
cards you know you're not going to use
leave them at home okay I take your take
the necessities and stuff so that's
that's good too and then also like going
to the parking lot and back into the
mall I mean that's something we have to
kind of keep aware of like look around
don't be what looking at your weight
world you'll see that we you know we we
live with our phones we e-mail we talk
to people we call people but that puts
our head down and we need our heads look
we need to be looking around we need to
be assessing what's coming at us where
we going we're not running into things
you know that bad guy sitting back going
are her heads down she's on her phone
that's my target right so let's get the
details of the upcoming class okay so
people can know when it is when when is
it happening it's it's gonna be Monday
the 19th at 7:15 p.m. until roughly 8:45
sometimes we we have too much fun we go
a little bit longer than that it's what
we call level two but you don't have to
do the one to do this one we come in we
stretch out we get to know each other
for a few few minutes and we've got
these instructors that come in and these
safety gear big old pads on them and
everything and we just get ready and we
start doing some techniques to get out
of a situation I a really upfront
confrontational okay that's what we're
going to be doing here in just a little
bit so don't go away we're gonna get
some information on some moves that we
can all use
before the break we learned a little
about personal safety in an upcoming
women's safety clinic but now we're
gonna learn some who's yeah joining us
with a demonstration we have sergeant
Jennifer Boswell again and we have
officer Josh Johnson thanks so much for
coming on
thank y'all okay so what's the first
thing that you're gonna teach us I
always talk about stances because if
we'd only have our feet right then we're
gonna end up on the ground and don't we
we always want to stand up we're always
the fight needs to be up on our feet
right so what we're gonna do is we're
gonna get into what you call a combat
stance so if you start with your feet
here bring it back to about right here
both feet are facing forward
we're slightly bent at the knees our leg
is back a little bit so the minute that
somebody grabs onto you you get into
this because what we call a bad stance
is if you are on a tightrope so we want
to stay away from this I've got nothing
I can't stand up I'm gonna hit the
ground and now I'm fighting just to
stand up and and they already know what
they're gonna do so I need to get in
this and if I get in this right I can
have a little bit more room to fight
around with I can grab on I can push
them away instead of having just the
fight to stand up she's gonna beat you
what I want to do is work we're in art
are kind of our relaxed position
my fighting stance I want you to get get
your feet right and then look down to
make sure you're there so combat stance
now look down at your feet are they
where they need to be are they pointed
forward you got a nice balance you know
we do a lot of things from here if
someone starts moving you around you
want to try to if he's pushing and
pulling on me I want this left leg if
we're going to the to my left I want to
use this instead of time instead of
tangling our feet up I want to keep them
like this as much as possible it is a
lot like boxing there's it's all the
foundations yeah pretty much for
everything and that's what we call it
this is our foundation okay this is what
we need to be mm-hmm
you know so the minute you're going
you're walking walking we get into this
as quick as we can and it may be messy
yeah that's okay it doesn't have to be
perfect doesn't have to be a clean fight
but we're getting out of this right we
don't want that we don't want this right
we don't want to unbalanced on our feet
or anything like this we want to get our
bow
right so if somebody's are you supposed
to grab their hands like that well for
me I don't this is I'm going to protect
all right if our head is off balance or
if it gets off balance we're in trouble
so I want to protect my head and I want
to stay what when I call on your head on
your hips and your feet are right this
just gives me an advantage we talked
about that early we don't always want
everything to our advantage so this is
to our advantage if we can get into this
the thing is if we get into a push and
pull situation Strongest Man is gonna
win and he's definitely stronger than me
in this situation right so I've got to
have some things to my advantage
this is to my advantage gesture stance
just your stance Wow so then you're
getting your hands up because the idea
is the attacks gonna come here and we
need our hands up here to protect
ourselves
you know I'm dominant right hand so if I
was gonna throw a punch or hit this and
this hand would just be pushing or
protecting the server the case may be
okay so what do you do once you're here
in this like what's the goal from here
great well I feel like mean I know but I
like to write a block twist one way that
this is gonna be an ugly fight whatever
he's gotten bad guy and Josh our bad guy
right now whatever the idea the bad guy
has in mind we don't know right so we're
thinking the worst here so we're
prepared for the worst
so he's here and it may be that do it
yeah yeah I was thinking it we are we we
go here closed eyes that we do keep this
in mind if you're gonna punch you're
gonna hit remember we if the hand is
hard we go for soft areas okay we always
hit soft areas where okay his neck you
pointed to his nose eyes his nose if
we're gonna need we still go to soft
areas okay okay we hit those target
areas with with a hard target well the
goal is just to get away as fast as you
can right creating any kind of window to
get out of soon because he'll like grab
himself for a second right then you take
on your garber these are tools nothing's
a hundred percent you're just okay this
didn't work I'm gonna go to this tool
just didn't work I'm gonna do and you're
just your your keep going and going
until you get out of this and keep this
amount to a lot of it's mental if you've
ever competed in something like
a basketball a game at work you never go
into the competition saying I'm gonna
lose right right same thing here you
can't say I'm gonna lose this you have
to say I'm gonna fight to the death
get away get away no matter what that
you're gonna get out of this such a good
good class to take November 19th at 7:15
Fleet Feet roanoke thank you both for
thanks AB salutely such better confident
you know right