Self-defense courses for women and men at the CFC gym in Milan.
Technical direction Kapila Wijenayake
The purpose of a self-defense course is often solely and essentially aimed at providing technical information that certainly requires practice and supplementary courses to ensure that the choice to attend a self-defense course is sufficiently productive, that is, that the final result provides a suitably effective solution to real situations of offense, threat, or danger.
The purpose of a self-defense course for women , according to the Yoseikan method, is to offer the practitioner an additional opportunity: to acquire, in addition to the specific basic self-defense techniques, the psychological, preventive, and legal aspects inherent in the practice of self-defense itself, as well as all the information whose content concerns the development of physical and emotional potential, thus enriching one’s knowledge base useful for achieving the objective.
This experience allows the practitioner’s attention to be drawn to various aspects: it is an opportunity to enrich her with the fundamental notions that regulate the relationship between the individual and (suffered) violence in general.
Not only through simple confrontation, through knowledge of self-defense techniques, but above all through the consideration that violence is the result of multiple reactions on the part of the aggressor that manifest themselves in certain circumstances, such as the reaction to violence from others, the response to stress and frustration, the desire to impose oneself, etc., we seek to put the practitioner in the optimal conditions to become aware of her own state as a victim/woman, highlighting her potential defenses and, above all, her limitations.
Through this information, according to the Yoseikan method, we aim to encourage the practitioner to be aware of her own resources and, through easy-to-perform exercises, we help her manage impulsiveness, aggression, fear, and all those elements that constitute the emotional heritage of each individual.
The ability to identify the emotional manifestations or personality traits of the aggressor, his weak points, his vulnerable parts, the times, places and methods of intervention simultaneously allow the practitioner to arouse curiosity, to ask questions, to be active and to discover the pleasure of research and comparison, to become responsible and conscious, to master her own physical and mental strength, to exploit, little by little, her aptitude for relating to others by giving herself an answer to the question: what kind of violence is socially and morally permissible? What are the personal limits of violence that I am willing to suffer without suffocating my personality?
