Caution!!! Self defense is not kickboxing! While the benefits of kickboxing ARE empowering it is not, necessarily, preparing you for self defense and quite possibly building a false sense of confidence. This is a good instructor so perhaps the news coverage is just a little off. Do your research!
Some people are trying to bring back a little bit of history to Capitol Hill: a new version of the neighborhood patrol group, Q-Patrol. The original Q-Patrol first walked the streets of Capitol Hill in 1991 as a response to gay-bashing incidents in Seattle. The group’s members were trained in self-defense.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The first jabs landed politely, like the boxing students were tapping the punching bags on the shoulders instead of pummeling them. Then, the music started blasting — hard, driving beats, the kind that push everyone in the club onto the dance floor. Ronnell “Bigg Ron” Jones, an aptly named wall of […]
SEATTLE — Hundreds of men and women spent their morning attending a self defense workshop in Seattle on Saturday. The workshop was held at MKG Seattle, a fitness and martial arts studio. MKG owner Andy Wilson said the workshop was in response to
Four women have been attacked in north Seattle over the last couple weeks. A martial arts school, that also teaches self defense, offered a free, impromptu class last weekend and 100 people showed up. They want to get the message out about how important self defense is. We hear from a woman who saved her […]
SEATTLE — At MKG Martial Arts in Northgate an otherwise quiet Sunday is anything but. Self-defense is the focus, as men and women alike try to learn a skill they hope they will never have to use. “You just need to keep going, even if you find