How India’s women are using martial arts to fight back against sexual violence
IBTimes UK explores how females in India are learning self-defence and martial arts to prevent sexual assault.
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UCLA adjunct professor brings lessons from martial arts to classroomSix years ago, three strangers attacked Ivan Lopez from behind while he was walking home at night from a bus stop on Venice Boulevard, leaving him bleeding and injured. “I thought they were going to kill me,” said Lopez, a 55-year-old adjunct professor in the department of head and neck surgery at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
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Akshay Kumar: Shameful that women have to learn karate due to the presence of certain elements in societyAkshay Kumar’s love for karate is extremely well-known. The actor, who made martial arts his calling card in Bollywood in his heydays, today is actively seen encouraging women to take up self-defence. The superstar along with Sidharth Malhotra and Jacqueline Fernandes was seen handing out certificates to young women at the graduation day of a self-defence academy in Mumbai on Monday (August 17).
Martial Arts – The Autistic VoiceMARTIAL ARTS HELP CHILDREN WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME Sandra Beale-Ellis, 2008 My interest in Autism, and in particular, Asperger’s Syndrome started many years ago, when a parent of a karate student, told me her son had been diagnosed with Asperger’s. My initial reaction was ignorance and following that class I read as much as I could on Asperger’s.
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