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    Score another for MMA

    MMA fighter takes down armed robber in Burbank
    POSTED: AUG 30 2017 05:26AM PDT
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    BURBANK, Calif. (FOX 11) - An armed robbery suspect found out the hard way that holding up a mixed martial arts studio is not an easy target.

    Police said shortly after 9 p.m., a man walked into the Defiant MMA & Fitness studio in Burbank and pulled a gun on employees and customers.

    An instructor, lightweight MMA fighter Jacobe Powell, knocked the gun out of the suspect's hand and pinned him down until police arrived to take him into custody, authorities said.

    The suspect was left bloodied and taken to a local hospital for treatment.

    Kudos to Jacobe Powell. Ain't no guns in the cage. It takes a special kind of dumb to pull a gun in an MMA studio.
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    Score another for Karate

    Karate Kid: Georgia boy fights off attempted kidnapper with martial arts
    Published August 31, 2017 Fox News


    Sebastian Solache, 10, used his karate knowledge to ward off a would-be kidnapper near his home in Georgia. (Fox 5 Atlanta)

    When a would-be kidnapper attacked 10-year-old Georgia boy Sebastian Solache, the child put his karate knowledge to the test.

    An intruder approached the Solache home in Hall County late Tuesday afternoon, according to Fox 5 Atlanta. Solache was in the driveway when a man grabbed him from behind and attempted to drag him toward the back of a neighboring house.

    The young boy decided to use his understanding of karate to protect himself from the stranger.

    “He drags me and I elbow him in the ribs,” Solache told Fox 5. “From there he slammed me on the floor and ran.”

    That’s when Solache ran into his home, where his mom discovered him frightened.

    "I was fixing them something to eat when I heard him slam the door and lock it. He was just crying, having a panic attack. He told me, 'somebody tried to take me, mommy,’” Flor Solache said, before noting she saw the man running away when she looked out the window.

    “I just felt proud of myself that I was able to escape,” Sebastian said.

    Hall County Sheriff’s Deputy Stephen Wilbanks told Fox 5 that Sebastian did everything right during the encounter — screamed and fought back.

    "Criminals and predators such as this are looking for easy prey. Our advice is, don't be that victim, fight with everything you have," Wilbanks said.

    Investigators described the unknown man as white, with dark pants and a white shirt, with a black cloth covering his face.
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    I'm going to score this one as a success...

    ...hard to call given the context, but two-on-one in a road rage incident seems like a win. I hope he doesn't get busted for it later, assuming it was just self-defense.

    There's a vid but it isn't very clear.

    Two men instantly regret taking on martial arts expert in road rage incident
    Richard Hartley-Parkinson for Metro.co.uk Tuesday 19 Sep 2017 6:58 am

    Two men who took on a third man over a road rage incident are likely to have regretted it immediately.

    They started fighting with a martial arts expert in the street in Birmingham and it was all caught on camera.

    The fight happened outside a branch of Heron Foods and McDonald’s at the Bell Shopping Centre in Bristol Road.

    Footage has emerged of the confrontation which shows the third man dishing out some specialist kicks.

    It only ends when one of the people arguing with him is knocked out.


    A road rage fight broke out outside a branch of Heron Foods in Northfield, Birmingham (Picture: MEN)


    Two men took on a third in the incident (Picture: MEN)

    Police are now looking into the fight which happened on September 2.

    A spokeswoman for the force said: ‘It was a road rage incident. There were no serious injuries and investigations are still on going. No arrests have been made.’

    One person who saw the video said: ‘When a guy starts standing like Bruce Lee, walk away see another day.’

    West Midlands Ambulance Service attended after being called to reports of a fight outside McDonald’s on Bristol Street on September 2 at 13:50pm.

    They confirmed that they treated one man for minor injuries. ‘One man, with no visible injuries was treated and discharged at the scene. He was then left in the care of the police. No one was seriously injured.’


    But he was a martial arts expert so they instantly regretted it (Picture: MEN)
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    Let's chalk this one up to TKD

    There's something to be said for the indomitable martial spirit in the face of this horrible national tragedy.

    Wounded in Las Vegas massacre, college student from Rohnert Park survives but loses a friend
    Trisha Thadani Oct 3, 2017

    Before the crackles of gunfire, the run for her life and the sharp, hot pain in her back, Savanna Chasco was singing along to a concert in Las Vegas that she had been looking forward to for months.

    The Sonoma County native and her friends were enjoying country music singer Jason Aldean close out the three-day music festival late Sunday night when a gunman unleashed a barrage of bullets into the crowd, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more.

    Back at her childhood home in Rohnert Park, her family was just settling into bed when they got the phone call.

    “She called us at 11:45, telling us not to worry,” her father, Edward Chasco, told The Chronicle.


    Savanna Chasco, 20, a student at the University of Nevada, Reno, survived being shot in the back when a gunman opened fire Sunday night at the Route 91 Harvest Festival music concert in Las Vegas.

    News of the massacre, the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, had not even spread to the public yet. But Edward Chasco said he knew exactly what was happening: “You could hear the rapid gunfire in the background while we were talking to her.”

    Immediately after the phone call, he and his family jumped in the car and rushed to Las Vegas, completing a drive that typically takes 10 hours in about seven.

    “It was traumatic,” he said from a Las Vegas hotel room.

    His daughter, a 20-year-old junior at the University of Nevada, Reno, was shot in the back twice as she and her friends ran to safety, he said.

    But even as she was reeling in pain, Edward Chasco said his daughter — a former cheerleader and soccer player who has a black belt in taekwondo— initially refused pain medications so she could be more conscious for her friend, who was also hurt in the massacre.

    Another friend in her group was among those fatally wounded, Edward Chasco said.

    “She was having the best time of her life with her friends and the one that passed,” he said. “They are thankful they were able to spend that much time together.”

    Savanna Chasco has since been released from the hospital and is already eager to get back on her feet, her father said. She has a lot to get back to when she heals: many friends in her sorority, kids she tutors, and dreams of becoming a teacher after graduation.

    And, more immediately, she needs to study for a calculus test.

    “She is a very strong girl,” Edward Chasco said. “Right now she doesn’t want to be in big crowds, but I don’t think that will last.”

    Trisha Thadani is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: tthadani@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @TrishaThadani
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    Score one for KENDO!

    There should always be a bokuto within reach. Always.

    Japanese convenience store clerk stops robbery with wooden kendo sword and fighting pose
    Casey Baseel 12 hours ago



    “I should tell you that I’m first dan,” he informs would-be thief.

    Customer service in Japan really is incredible. For example, on October 16, at around 4 in the morning, a man walked into the Shimojima Minami branch of convenience store Circle K in Shizuoka City’s Aoi Ward.

    Noticing that the man was wearing a ski mask and carrying a crowbar, an attentive male clerk who was working at the time quickly anticipated the man’s needs, and helpfully got the ball rolling by asking “You here for our money?”

    “That’s right,” the man said, continuing their pithy yet cordial line of dialogue.

    Of course, even in Japan there’s a limit to how accommodating business can be, and handing out cash to every robbery who asks for it, politely or not, isn’t something Circle K is prepared to do. So instead the clerk picked up a bokuto, or wooden training sword, that he kept handy.

    ▼ Bokuto


    “I should tell you that I’m first dan in kendo,” the clerk said as he took a fighting stance, thoughtfully informing the robber that he had progressed to the first tier of the upper certification ranks in the traditional Japanese sword-fighting discipline. At the same time the clerk hit the alarm button, and the robber, not liking his odds against a trained martial artist with police backup on the way, instead chose to flee the scene without stealing so much as a single onigiri rice ball.

    ▼ The store where the incident took place


    While not quite the same show of brute force as the 54-year-old woman who defeated a convenience store robber with her bare hands, the clerk has been praised by online commenters for his gallantry and awesomeness. It’s actually a shame that Circle K, being one of Japan’s less-successful chains, is actually in the middle of a downsizing process, but if the Shimojima Minami branch does shut down one day, perhaps the heroic clerk can get work as a samurai bodyguard instead.

    Source: TV Asahi, YouTube/SBSnews6 via Hachima Kiko
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    Score another for Karate

    There's a vid behind the link.

    WATCH: Armed raid foiled as shopkeeper turns out to be karate black belt


    Sibu Kuruvilla subduing a gunman who came in demanding the takings at his shop in Leicester
    Richard Vernalls

    December 28 2017 6:51 PM

    A hapless armed raider looking for "easy money" got more than he bargained for on Christmas Eve when he tackled a shop run by a karate black belt.

    Sibu Kuruvilla sprang into action when an assailant came into the Leicester business he has spent three years building up, brandishing what appeared to be a pistol.

    He and a shop assistant were about to close up at 10pm after a busy day trading, when the man shouted for them to hand over the takings, waving the gun in the air.

    Unfortunately for the unwanted visitor, 43-year-old Mr Kuruvilla is a 1st Dan black ban in Seibukan karate - and has been helping teach Leicestershire youngsters the martial art for years.

    With a gun pointed at his head, married the father-of-two waited for the male assailant to get close before snatching the pistol in one swift movement.

    He and his colleague then wrestled the attacker into submission in 13-minute struggle, using a leg lock which left the attacker "begging" to "please" be let go.

    Mr Kuruvilla, non-plussed, said: "He came over me actually and I was like 'please don't hurt us' and you get to a point where you think you have to do something and you have to react."

    "That is where I thought I could do something and I have the courage to do it."

    Chuckling at the memory, he added: "Because my sensei (karate teacher) taught me well - tackle people when you're in that situation.

    "I do a bit of martial arts, I do Seibukan karate, so it is probably because of that I got the courage to tackle him."

    Asked if he thought the assailant had been expecting the moves, Mr Kuruvilla replied: "Yes, he was not expecting that - for us to react and to overpower him.

    "He was thinking 'easy money, two minutes, two grand', something like that.

    "He was a big bloke."

    However, the assailant's attitude had changed after being pinned to the floor in the aisle of Leo's Super Saver store in Main Street, Evington for a quarter of an hour.

    Mr Kuruvilla said: "He was begging towards the end - he was tired, he gave up I think - 'please let me go, please let me go' and he said 'I will not come back to my shop'

    "I said 'you will not come back to this shop - but you'll go to another shop, so I won't let you go.'

    "Then he gave up.

    "I put him in a leg lock so he won't move, and my boy was on top of him to make sure he wasn't."

    All the while, Mr Kuruvilla - a former artisan chef, who decided to move into groceries three years ago - had his two daughters, aged seven and nine, locked in the shop's back office.

    They were able to watch the drama unfold "live" on the shop's in-store TV monitors, but were unable to ring the police because the phone was out of range.

    Two other customers came in - and left again - before a third dialled 999.

    However, both Mr Kuruvilla and his colleague were able to hit the silent alarm, summoning police who arrived 13 minutes after the man first stepped through the door.

    He said his girls had been left scared, and told their grandfather it had been "the worst Christmas ever", while Mr Kuruvilla said he had been shaken up.

    Of the man he tackled, he added: "I hope he will learn his lessons and move on as a better person."

    Asked why he acted, he added: "There is no other way, if you're running scared, where are you going end up?

    "You're going to keep on running.

    "You stand up and face what you come up against. That's what I believe."

    News has spread of the brave act, with customer Graham Corbett, who served with the Royal Military Police, congratulating Mr Kuruvilla for his "brilliant" actions.

    Leicestershire Police said a 17-year-old male was arrested in connection with the incident and has been bailed pending police inquiries.

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    Score another for Kung Fu

    Yeah, well, I'm just going to leave this one right here. There's a vid behind the link too, if you're curious...

    Man says kung fu saved him on date with alleged serial killer
    By Gabrielle Fonrouge February 1, 2018 | 3:47pm | Updated

    A Canadian man is crediting his knowledge of kung fu with helping him survive a terrifying night with a Canadian landscaper accused of being a serial killer.

    Peter Sgromo had just moved back to Thunder Bay, a city in Ontario, Canada, and reconnected last spring on a social media app with Bruce McArthur — the 66-year-old arrested and charged this Monday with first-degree murder in connection with the disappearances of five men, CBC News reported.

    McArthur, whom Sgromo knew through mutual friends, said to get in touch next time Sgromo was in the Toronto area so the two could get together.

    They did, and had a casual dinner with light conversation flowing like cheap wine, with topics from business to travel.

    “We had no exchange about anything that would suggest that we were going on a sexual date or anything like that,” Sgromo said.


    Bruce McArthur
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    There was one thing that struck Sgromo as odd.

    “One odd thing was that he had mentioned that he had met this guy in Italy, and I guess he was talking about the date he was on and he said, ‘Oh, he liked it really rough.'”

    Sgromo didn’t read too much into it but was just surprised because he didn’t think rough sex was McArthur’s style.

    At the end of the evening, Sgromo walked McArthur to his van, where the two started kissing.

    McArthur offered to drive Sgromo back to his hotel and when the two got inside, Sgromo noticed it was “emptied out.”

    Again, he tried not to read into it.

    “Oh, OK, he transports things, so that makes sense,” Sgromo said to himself, knowing McArthur was a landscaper.

    The two sat on a bench in the back of the van, where their canoodling intensified.

    “We were kissing, kissing turned into some petting. Then he undid my shirt, undid his shirt,” Sgromo said. He added McArthur then grabbed him by the head and pushed him down toward his crotch.

    “Then he really grabbed my neck, violently twisted it, right to his crotch and his pants were undone. That’s when I really was quite disturbed.”

    He continued: “I think about that grip … For him to grab my neck with one hand, twist it like that, I literally thought one more second he would have snapped [it].”

    But Sgromo, who took martial arts classes because of violent experiences he endured while living in San Francisco, acted instinctively and grabbed McArthur’s elbow by the funny bone until he was able to make him release his grip.

    “Bruce, what are you doing?” he demanded.

    Sgromo then told McArthur to drop him off at his hotel first so he could check on his ailing dog. Once there, he told him the animal was too sick, and he couldn’t leave it alone.

    “To me, that was my escape,” Sgromo said. He never heard from McArthur again.

    Now, seeing his face plastered across media reports, Sgromo is grateful he trusted his gut that night.

    Investigators have found remains of at least three people in two planters they extracted from properties connected with McArthur in and around Toronto. Investigators expect to announce more charges soon.
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    This is amazing! I wish I know how to do that too

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    I exercised self-defense techniques against him.

    My favorite kind of post here.

    Suspected burglar's victim turns out to be martial arts expert, ex-Hells Angel


    Palomar Mountain land owner Glen Heggstad (Sean Tague)
    J. Harry Jones

    Glen Heggstad sent a message to burglars this past weekend: don’t mess with Palomar Mountain residents.

    Heggstad spends most weekends at his 37-acre ranch, where he has a trailer and a small cabin that he shares with his best friend and adjacent property owner, Phil Nelissen.

    Sunday morning, Nelissen drove to his land and found the gate broken and the trailer parked near Heggstad’s cabin gone.

    Squatters had clearly been there very recently. A campfire was going. Lawn chairs had been set up. A mirror had been hung. A generator was running and a pitcher of ice tea sat on a table. There were also a lot of odd items that appeared to have been stolen from other cabins sitting in wheelbarrows and elsewhere nearby.

    Nelissen notified authorities, Heggstad and other neighbors to be on the lookout for whoever was responsible.


    The pickup truck stuffed with stolen items from local cabins (Glen Heggstad)

    The next morning, a neighbor spotted a black pickup near the cabin and called Nelissen, who in turn texted Heggstad, who was staying in his nearby trailer.

    Heggstad jumped into his truck and drove to the cabin.

    “I got down there and sure enough, there was this fool asleep in the truck,” which was filled with stolen chain saws, power tools and other things, he said. “Apparently, they were using my brother’s place (he refers to Nelissen as his brother) as a staging area because they had other stolen goods stashed there.”

    Heggstad pounded on the window of the truck and asked the man inside what he was doing there. The man, later arrested and identified as Geoffry Brister, 36, came out swinging, Heggstad said.

    He didn’t know that Heggstad, a very fit 65-year-old former Hell’s Angel and martial arts expert, would be way too much for him to handle.

    “How do I put this delicately,” Heggstad said. “I exercised self-defense techniques against him. He took a couple of swings and I did, too, probably more than a couple. I took a pocket knife away from him and finished defending myself.”

    “In the course of him attacking me, he probably took the worst beating of his lifetime,” he said.

    Heggstad said he wasn’t afraid of getting hurt during the altercation. “I was only afraid he might get away,” he said.

    It was about 20 minutes before Sheriff’s deputies arrived in force, he said.

    During that time, Heggstad said he questioned Brister about the location of his friend’s trailer, which he admitted was stashed near Lake Henshaw. It has since been recovered.

    Valley Center Sheriff’s Sgt. Russ Ryan confirmed that Brister was arrested and hospitalized for his injuries, which included either a broken or severely hurt jaw.

    “We’ve been able to tie the suspect to at least three or four other burglaries between Palomar Mountain and Big Bear and possibly more,” Ryan said.

    Brister is a transient with ties to San Bernardino and Big Bear City, Ryan added.

    Brister has been charged with robbery, burglary, vehicle theft and receiving stolen property. He is being held without bail at the Vista Detention Facility because of an outstanding warrant from another jurisdiction, according to the Sheriff’s Department’s jail information website.

    Ryan said property from numerous burglaries was recovered near the cabin and the investigation is ongoing. There was evidence of a second vehicle, but no other suspects have been identified. Ryan said evidence suggested Brister, and possibly others, had been squatting on the land for at least a few days.

    Palomar Mountain has historically been the focus of burglars stealing from unoccupied cabins. Ryan said it doesn’t appear that Brister was connected to any recent long-running theft series.

    Heggstad said landowners on the mountain are pretty much on their own because law enforcement doesn’t have the manpower to patrol the sparsely populated area on a regular basis. The community looks out for one another, he said.

    Heggstad said he wishes Brister’s booking photo, showing his facial injuries, could see print to send a message to others thinking of targeting the mountain.

    “It’s up to the landowners,” he said. “We don’t want to look like vigilantes but what we are are really, really ****ed off homeowners. We want these guys to know it’s not going to be easy. We’re not easy pickins’ up here. There is a price to pay.”
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    Emily Javier continued

    This wannabe samurai story just got better....with Wing Chun! I think this counts as a Successful Street Application.

    She found a dating app on her boyfriend’s phone. Then she bought a samurai sword.
    By Kyle Swenson March 15 at 3:44 AM

    With her boyfriend finally asleep, Emily Javier reached for the samurai sword she had secretly taped earlier to the side of the bed.

    According to an affidavit filed by police, the room was dark, and she sparked her phone to see better. To aim better.

    Below snoozed Alex Lovell. He played too many videos games, Javier would later explain to the police, and now he was cheating on her, she claimed. She knew the signs. Tinder on his phone. Scratches across his back. A girl’s hair in their shower drain. In the weak phone glow, Javier allegedly started hacking.

    Lovell woke to his girlfriend of two years attacking him with a sword, police say. Survival instincts — mainly martial arts training and all the kung fu films he had watched — clicked in.

    I was able to wing chun my way to survival,” he told the Oregonian/OregonLive in an interview this week over Facebook messenger, referring to a Chinese martial art. He eventually wrapped Javier in a bear hug. “I saw the look in her eyes, and it scared the living poop out of me,” he told the news outlet. “I told her I loved her, and she was killing me. She needed to call police, or I was going to die.”

    Javier broke off the attack and made the call, frantically telling a 911 operator she had stabbed her boyfriend and she thought he was dead. “You used a sword?” the operator asked.

    When police did arrive at the scene on March 3, they found Lovell curled up in the blood-spattered bedroom, according to the probable cause affidavit filed by police in Camas, a Washington state town northeast of Portland, Ore. Remarkably, he survived the attack despite serious injuries. Lovell almost lost the index, middle and ring fingers on his hand. But in interviews this week, the competitive gamer sounded happy to be alive.

    “I was just so proud for beating this samurai wannabe crazy lady with hate in her heart,” the 29-year-old told the Oregonian/OregonLive. “I’ve been preparing my whole life for something like this.”

    Javier — who pleaded not guilty this week to first-degree attempted murder, according to the Columbian — had also allegedly been preparing.

    Alex Lovell — known as “Biggie” in his local gamer scene — is an avid player of “PlayerUnknown’s Battleground,” a multiplayer online fighting game. As he told the Oregonian/OregonLive, Lovell has been recently logging 12 to 13 hours a day playing the game. The regimen also required “exercises for his hands, wrists and shoulders and also practicing mouse moves and techniques to maximize performance,” the paper reported.

    “I wasn’t a sweaty nerd, more of an Ethlete,” Lovell told the Oregonian/OregonLive.


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    In an interview with police after the attack, Javier, 30, admitted she was frustrated with her boyfriend for staying glued to his game. Then, a week before the violent incident, Javier said she had discovered Lovell was unfaithful. According to the affidavit, she told police she discovered Tinder, the dating app, on his phone. She also noticed scratches on his back, possibly from a romantic encounter. She found red hair in the shower drain — her own hair was dyed green.

    She did not confront her boyfriend. In the past, he had just denied such accusations. This time Javier went to the mall and bought a samurai sword. “I thought, I was gonna stab him while he was sleeping,” she told police.

    The relationship reached a crisis point on March 2. According to the police affidavit, Lovell came home but ignored his girlfriend. She allegedly decided to go through with the attack, taping the sword and two knives to the bed. Javier also told police she hid Lovell’s phone so he could not call for help. When Lovell finally went to sleep, she reached for the sword.

    In an interview with the Columbian this week, Lovell denied he was unfaithful. “I barely had time to hang out with my girlfriend, let alone another girl,” he told the paper. “I didn’t see it coming, but it makes sense that it happened. She obviously didn’t want anyone else to have me, so — samurai sword.”

    Doctors were able to reattach Lovell’s fingers where they were nearly hacked off at the base. He also suffered wounds to his feet, legs, torso, neck and head. His right arm is in a cast. Members of the local gaming scene set up a GoFundMe page for his medical bills. The fund is just $2,000 shy of its $10,000 goal after 10 days.

    Javier remains in custody. Her attorney did not return an email for comment.

    “The feeling I had when I won the fight with my bare hands is just absolutely the best feeling,” Lovell boasted this week from the hospital. “I’ve played all the sports, won big games, landed some decent tricks on my snowboard. This was better.”
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    Score another for TKD

    18-Year-Old Martial Art Expert From Bengal Beats Up 3 Men Who Tried To Sexually Assault Her
    By Neha Tanwar - 30th March 2018

    At a time when crimes against women have seen a steady rise, self-defence has become the need of the hour. Women have taken their safety into their own hands and have invested their time in equipping themselves with the proper form of self-defence so that they can protect themselves from predators. However, just learning martial arts is not enough and you need to keep your head together to apply your knowledge.

    A prime example of this was recently set by an 18-year-old girl who taught a lesson to 3 men who tried to sexually assault her. The girl, Priyanka Singha Roy was on her way to a shop at Kamarpara, Sainthia municipality, in West Bengal reportedly with her younger sister when the men tried to assault them.

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    The men made lewd remarks at her and blocked her path. One of them also allegedly held her hand. The girl started learning martial arts 10 months ago and warned the men to back off, the police said on Tuesday.

    When they didn’t listen to her, she overpowered and beat them up. The mother of the girl told Hindustan Times,

    “MY DAUGHTER IS A KEEN STUDENT OF MARTIAL ARTS. THE YOUTHS WERE NOT AWARE OF HER SKILLS. MY DAUGHTER INITIALLY ASKED THEM TO RESTRAIN THEMSELVES, BUT THEY PAID NO HEED AND CONTINUED WITH THEIR LEWD BEHAVIOUR. THEN SHE BEAT THEM UP. “

    Anirban Sen, a local resident witnessed the girl’s ferocity first-hand and saw the goons lying on the ground with his own eyes. He said,

    “AFTER HEARING A COMMOTION, WE RUSHED TO THE AREA AND FOUND THAT THE GIRL HAD PUT THE THREE YOUTHS ON THE GROUND. SHE TOLD US THAT SHE PUNISHED THEM FOR MISBEHAVING WITH HER. HER COURAGE WILL INSPIRE OTHERS IN THE AREA.”

    The news quickly went viral and people are lauding this teenager for having her wits about her and applying her knowledge to overpower her perpetrators.
    1. True!
    GetafixtheDruid
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    Priyanka, the brave young 18 years old Indian girl is a role model for all young ladies in the world who are forced to defend themselves against male predators. 💪👇👇👇#PriyankaSinghaRoy 👏👏👏👏🙏 https://twitter.com/tota_rc/status/978874056928841728

    13:17 - 29 Mar 2018
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    2. So proud!

    Tota Roy Choudhury

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    27 Mar
    She is #PriyankaSinghaRoy from Sainthia,Bengal. Was out on her cycle with her younger sister. 3 men accosted her. She beat them up with such ferocity that people had to rescue them! This 18 year old practices #TaeKwonDo & is a class 12 student.
    RESPECT👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/bNYVUN2Jda


    Rajkumar Saha
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    really proud of u #priyankasingharoy pic.twitter.com/dpoJHk3M4F

    02:55 - 29 Mar 2018

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    3. We need more like her.
    CHANDI
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    Lovely👏👏👏
    We need more daughters like her in every household. So proud of this daughter #PriyankaSinghaRoy
    Love and blessings to this strong & beautiful soul ❤️ https://twitter.com/tota_rc/status/978874056928841728

    09:08 - 28 Mar 2018 · Fremont, CA
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    4. Beti se bacho…

    Tota Roy Choudhury

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    27 Mar
    She is #PriyankaSinghaRoy from Sainthia,Bengal. Was out on her cycle with her younger sister. 3 men accosted her. She beat them up with such ferocity that people had to rescue them! This 18 year old practices #TaeKwonDo & is a class 12 student.
    RESPECT👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/bNYVUN2Jda


    kumar srivatsa
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    Yeh Beti se bacho ... proud of her

    09:29 - 29 Mar 2018
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    5. You rock!

    Tota Roy Choudhury

    @tota_rc
    27 Mar
    She is #PriyankaSinghaRoy from Sainthia,Bengal. Was out on her cycle with her younger sister. 3 men accosted her. She beat them up with such ferocity that people had to rescue them! This 18 year old practices #TaeKwonDo & is a class 12 student.
    RESPECT👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/bNYVUN2Jda


    Nilanjan
    @Nilanjan1180
    The power of discipline and self confidence. U rock, girl !!! 😀😀😀

    05:47 - 28 Mar 2018
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    6. Yes!
    Tota Roy Choudhury

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    27 Mar
    She is #PriyankaSinghaRoy from Sainthia,Bengal. Was out on her cycle with her younger sister. 3 men accosted her. She beat them up with such ferocity that people had to rescue them! This 18 year old practices #TaeKwonDo & is a class 12 student.
    RESPECT👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/bNYVUN2Jda


    Prashant Kamath
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    Hope all girls take cue n learn from this episode. It's never late to take lessons in self defense. Always be alert. Kudos Priyanka. Teach many of your neighbours. Encourage them

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    The girl could not be contacted as she went to give her class 12 board exams. The accused identified as Amit Sahani, Dip Mandal and Bhaskar Mandal and have now been caught by the police. They were all in their mid-twenties.

    This girl’s bravery and confidence will inspire many women and children to take an initiative towards learning self-defence. You go, girl!

    This one is definitely a Successful Street Application but also copy-worthy to our Indian women counter rape with martial arts training thread.
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    Score another for CMA

    I'm sure some critics will say Yu Kang wasn't doing CMA because it doesn't look like CMA, but what do they know? Clearly they don't know CMA.

    'Kung fu' policeman swoops in to save suicidal man
    Chen Xiaoli
    13:02 UTC+8, 2018-05-09

    A policeman in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, has become the latest Internet sensation after video of him swooping in to stop a suicidal man jumping from a tunnel went viral online.



    The incident happened at Tiancheng Road Tunnel near the East Hangzhou Railway Station on May 6, Metropolitan Express reported.

    After receiving a report around 6am, the policeman, Yu Kang, rushed to the scene with two auxiliary police officers, arriving within three minutes.

    The suicidal man in his 30s was squatting over the very edge of the tunnel and looked poised to jump.



    He kept waving a long stick in his hand to stop others from approaching him, forcing Yu to talk with him from a distance at first.

    The man said he came from Anhui Province and is now working at a construction site, but that people always "blew him off" and weren't willing to be friends with him.

    Yu approached the man slowly while he was distracted, before making a sudden swoop from the back. After performing a "hold and throw" technique, Yu rolled down to safety with the man.




    Neither the man nor the policeman were injured in the event, although Yu's shoes and mobile phone were broken.

    The suicidal man was later taken to the police station for questioning. Officers criticized his suicide attempt while at the same time encouraging him to build up confidence to face his future.

    Chinese netizens applauded Yu for his agility and likened him to a kung fu master.




    Yu, who was born in 1988, is a community policeman from Pengbu Police Station. He graduated from Zhejiang Police College and is known to be good at martial arts.
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    Nunchuks FTW!

    This Successful Street Application is actually a Good Day, not a Bad Day for Wannabe Bruce Lees.

    OKC apartment security guard uses nunchucks against knife-wielding man
    by KELSY SCHLOTTHAUER
    Published: Wed, June 13, 2018 11:59 AM Updated: Wed, June 13, 2018 2:00 PM



    Oklahoma City police arrested a man at an apartment complex Friday after he reportedly tried to attack a security guard.

    Jerome Dwayne Thompson, 31, was arrested on a complaint of assault with a dangerous weapon about 6:30 p.m. at Wentwood at Grand Hill apartments, 447 Tinker Diagonal St.

    Thompson was booked into the Oklahoma County jail, where he remained Wednesday on a $3,000 bond.

    The victim, a 31-year-old courtesy officer at the complex, told police Thompson was banned from the property but often stayed with residents.

    The victim was putting up flyers referencing Thompson, whom he only knew as "J-Money," when he saw Thompson walking toward him with a steak knife in each hand, according to the police report.

    Thompson told the victim he would not leave and that he "would have to kill him because he was about to kill [the victim]," according to the report.

    The victim told police Thompson came toward him aggressively, so he pulled his nunchucks out of his pocket and struck Thompson. After a short struggle, the victim held Thompson until police arrived.

    While held, Thompson made threats to come back and kill the victim, according to the report.

    Police spokesman Master Sgt. Gary Knight said neither man was seriously injured.

    "It's certainly something we don't see every day, somebody with knives fighting with somebody who has nunchucks," Knight said. "But thankfully, nobody was hurt, considering both of those types of weapons can do a lot of damage."
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    score another for mma

    There's an embedded news video behind this link. I didn't chase down the original instagram vid.

    Video of San Diego MMA fighter taking down suspected burglar goes viral
    Sergio Hernandez takes down a suspected burglar at his fathers house in City Heights. Video of Sergio holding the suspect in a judo move has gone viral on instagram.
    Lyndsay Winkley

    A man suspected of burglarizing a City Heights home on Monday likely regretted his decision after a resident — who happens to also be an experienced mixed martial arts fighter — spotted him and took him down.

    A video of the incident, recorded by a neighbor, had been viewed more than 86,000 times as of 7 p.m. Monday.

    Sergio Hernandez and his father had just returned from a trip to a mechanic when he spotted a stranger in the backyard of their 40th Street property.

    “It was shocking,” Hernandez said. “He was just standing there, inside my yard.”

    When Hernandez asked the man what he was doing, he said he was running from a dog. That’s when Hernandez noticed a nearby window was open, the screen on the ground.

    The man bolted over a fence and Hernandez took off after him. When he caught up, Hernandez tried to convince the man to come talk to his father.

    Hernandez had watched his dad resolve disputes before, even ones that involved a crime, without involving law enforcement. Once, when Hernandez was younger, another kid stole his bike. Instead of calling police, he said his father did a little “’hood investigating,” ultimately identifying the thief and persuading him to give the bike back.

    This time, though, his father wanted to see the suspect in handcuffs. Hernandez said the alleged burglar ransacked three rooms in the house before fleeing.

    Hearing that police were on the way, the man tried to get away, Hernandez said. That’s when Hernandez threw the man to the ground and put him in a triangle choke, which can be seen in a video of the encounter.

    “It took at least five minutes for the cops to show up,” Hernandez said. “It may not seem like a long time, but when you’re holding a giant guy who's trying not go to jail, it feels like forever.”

    Hernandez said he’s been practicing jujitsu for 13 years, and won a world title as a brown belt about four years ago. He’s also competed in four professional MMA fights.

    When he’s not honing his fighting skills — either in the ring or against suspected criminals — he’s tattooing with his wife at their shop, Pop’s Tattoos in City Heights.

    Hernandez said he’s just grateful no one was seriously hurt.

    “I think the right thing happened, him going to jail,” he said. “I just didn’t want to take him at his word that he wasn’t going to do it again. I hope he doesn’t have any hard feelings.”
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