Repost: Why Women Should Fight - by Jennifer Deschamps
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 ...