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47112
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 Wed, Feb 18, 2004 11:58 AM
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Class will teach
children — and adults — how to fight
abduction
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Is your child
adequately prepared to defend himself or herself against
a potential bully or abductor?
And, for that
matter, are you?
The recent tragic abduction —
caught on surveillance video — and subsequent murder of
an 11-year-old Florida girl, Carlie Brucia, is every
parent’s worst nightmare. Brucia was walking home from a
friend’s home in Sarasota, Fla., earlier this month when
the abductor walked up to her, grabbed her arm, said
something to her, and walked away with her.
Five
days later, Brucia’s remains were found behind a church
just a few miles away.
Brandon Sieg, a black belt
in martial arts who teaches self-defense at Indiana
University and is the martial arts coordinator at DePauw
University in Greencastle, was disturbed but not totally
surprised by what he saw on that now-famous
video.
“A lot of people would look at that video
and say, ‘I can’t believe she just walked away with
him’, ” said Sieg. “But you’d be surprised what kids
will do unless you’ve really taught
them.”
Teaching children and adults to defend
themselves in a similar situation is what will bring
Sieg, 30, to the Harrison County Tae Kwon Do school in
Lanesville on Saturday, March 13, for two seminars on
FAST Defense.
“It’s a self-defense course unlike
any other,” said Sieg.
FAST stands for
Fear, Adrenaline flooding, Stress and Training. The
course provides comprehensive defensive strategies such
as awareness and verbal and physical skills against the
most common types of assaults.
Sieg pointed out
that FBI statistics say that 80 percent of assaults are
committed with a verbal threat alone and no violence.
“It’s the verbal assault or that lure that precedes the
attack that’s more important,” he said.
And
that’s what makes it important to harness your
adrenaline and channel it in a positive manner to
establish boundaries right away in a threatening
situation.
“Kids are not used to telling adults
no,” said Sieg. “If they’re brought up right, they’re
told not to do that. So just the very fact that it’s OK
to yell ‘No!’ at an adult is kind of hard for a lot of
kids to do. There are certain times when you have
to.
“We do rather realistic role plays with the
kids to deal with those types of scenarios so they get
practice establishing boundaries and backing someone up
and deterring them from actually attacking. That’s
something you don’t get in martial arts schools, and
that’s really where the beauty of the program is ...
It’s really kind of the missing link between what people
in martial arts schools do and then what you need to do
for self-defense on the street.”
In addition to
the anti-abduction component of the class, the FAST
Defense course teaches its younger students how to deal
with bullying.
“In school, they can’t fight
because of zero tolerance, so martial arts is not good
self-defense because you’re going to get suspended from
school,” said Sieg. “So it’s dealing with bullies the
same way. How do you establish a boundary and do that
verbally and with your posture so that you don’t have to
fight.”
Sieg lives in Ellettsville and has two
commercial martial arts schools in addition to his work
at I.U. and DePauw, but he is no stranger to the area.
He was born in Corydon, grew up in Georgetown, and is a
1992 Floyd Central High School graduate. He got his
start in martial arts at Ohio Valley Tae Kwon Do in
Milltown, where he was able to work with Rick Haines,
now the instructor at Harrison County Tae Kwon
Do.
Sieg will bring a team of certified
instructors with him, from various parts of the state
including Mooresville, Indianapolis, Fishers and
Greencastle. “They have gone to great lengths to get
certified like me,” said Sieg, “and they do this for the
passion.”
Each FAST Defense class size is limited
to 20. The children’s class costs $30 and will be taught
from 9 to 11:30 a.m. with the adult class ($40)
following that afternoon from 1 to 5. Both classes
include an armored assailant section in which the
students get to use what they have learned and “beat up”
on the instructors. Reservations can be made by calling
952-3030.
For more information about the
program, visit www.FASTDefense.com on the
Internet.
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