Self Defense NY

Bresha Matthews is a 15 year old girl who is currently being held in an Ohio juvenile detention center for the murder of her father and it seems like the long arm of the law is the only one who thinks that she should be there. Bresha, her family (including her immediate family) and the vast majority of the country are petitioning for her release claiming she acted only in self defense and that it was absolutely necessary for her to kill her father in order to preserve her own life.
 
The incident happened in late July and since then nearly twenty cities across the country have held solidarity vigils and a petition for her release has reached over thirteen thousand signatures. The facts are simple: Bresha is a small framed fifteen year old girl and her father was a full figured adult male who had a very violent history of domestic violence. Many believe there was absolutely no other option for Bresha and now she is looking at very long sentence that would encompass most of her young adult life.
 
If you would like to help you can sign the petition here or you can visit https://freebresha.wordpress.com/blog/ for more information.

A new self defense class is being taught in Wilmington, Delaware. This class is currently only open to women over 18 years of age but may expand soon. This is no ordinary self defense class though. This class specifically teaches students how to defend themselves using knives. Now, the knives used in class are fake and rubber but the techniques taught areas real as it gets as well as dangerous as it gets.
 
Some of the techniques taught in the class go as far to teach participants how to inflict fatalities on their opponents via disembowelment! The overall point of the classes are to teach the women how to defend themselves but also to instill a sense of responsibility regarding the techniques they learn because of how incredibly devastating they can be. In addition to the weapons techniques the women also learn more traditional and safer techniques such as judo throws where a small woman can easily flip a full-grown man onto the ground and choke him into submission.
 
The members of the class are also taught which knives are legal to keep on your person as well as the safest ways of handling and storing them. So far there have been no injuries or death inside or outside of class due the training which is a great statistic. The class is likely to expand throughout the country with the Chandler Martial Arts Academy in Arizona likely up next to offer the class. The class may be opened up to adult men next.