JULES DELORME

Why Women Should Fight - by Jennifer Deschamps If someone had told me when I was in my early twenties that I would not only be training in Martial Arts, Boxing and Wrestling, but I would become a teacher and coach, and a strong advocate for women training in the Combat Arts, I’d have told you that I didn’t have a violent bone in my body and, if you pressed the matter, I’d probably cry, the only way I had to get the people around me to back off when I needed them to. I cried t hrough many of my earliest Martial Arts classes. But then one night I got attacked leaving a 7/11 parking lot, a day after a vigorous class in Kali, Philippine Martial Arts. We had trained one self defense series so vigorously that I reacted before I knew what I was doing and broke one guy’s nose and knocked a second into a heap at my feet. I have never looked back since. The feeling of power that I felt at that moment, was the kind of power to which most women never get access. We are taught from

“More is not better. More is just more”                                                                    Vince Gironda WEDNESDAY OCT 25: Wednesday was a day off from training. Spent a large part of the day with my friend, who is getting worse day by day. Kept my diet clean despite the darkness, which is usually when I resort to comfort food. Did walk home, which is a medium long walk. Stopped eating by 9. Sticking to the Gironda Lean Diet principles. Walked Momo. Did some light shadowboxing, still keeping the intensity low and working on technique. I do this while Momo’s exploring and stop when we starts to move. We walk later at night in the dark. Momo is anything but a dangerous dog, but I have to keep a close eye this time of year because we have skunks and coyotes in the area. Walked Catou. With him I stretch and work on deep Yogic breathing while he’s sniffing around. He’s small, so I have to keep and even closer eye just in case there are Coyotes around. Wound