{"id":4334,"date":"2017-08-12T17:45:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T17:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manoli.ca\/?p=4334\/"},"modified":"2019-09-10T22:24:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T22:24:47","slug":"adapted-self-defence-courses-make-everyone-capable-fighting-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manoli.ca\/fr\/adapted-self-defence-courses-make-everyone-capable-fighting-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Adapted self-defence courses make everyone capable of fighting back &#8211; August 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This story was originally published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/life\/education\/adapted-self-defence-courses-make-everyone-capable-of-fighting-back\/article_b63b58f0-e9ea-5aa6-849c-08c2c91e97b6.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=email&amp;utm_campaign=user-share\">The Suburban<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4335\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manoli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/5988b5343e331.image_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4335\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4335\" src=\"https:\/\/manoli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/5988b5343e331.image_-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manoli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/5988b5343e331.image_-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manoli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/5988b5343e331.image_-768x441.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manoli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/5988b5343e331.image_-1024x588.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manoli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/5988b5343e331.image_.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instructor George Manoli, centre, addresses the group as his assistant, Robert Lyne, looks on.<br \/>Photo: Rob Taussig \/ The Suburban<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It isn\u2019t often that George Manoli learns something new. The 28-year veteran police officer and longtime martial-arts instructor has seen just about everything you can see in his 45 years of teaching self-defence, but when he signed on this summer to teach an adapted self-defence course to members of the West Island Multiple Sclerosis Self-Help Group, he realized that maybe he hadn\u2019t seen everything \u2013 just yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned as much from them as they did from me,\u201d said Manoli, who runs a karate club in the Beaconsfield Recreation Centre. \u201cWhen you teach self-defence, you teach people to punch and kick, but what do you teach them when they can\u2019t necessarily punch or kick?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So Manoli adapted the course and spent a half-dozen, nearly two-hour sessions with 15 members of the MS Self-Help Group throughout May, June and July at the Karnak Temple in Dollard des Ormeaux teaching them the different strategies they can use to fend off attackers should they find themselves in that situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery situation is different, so the strategies you would use will vary. For instance, if you know your attacker vs. if you don\u2019t know your attacker, you will handle those two situations differently,\u201d said Manoli, who is known for sporting a \u2018Humpty Dumpty\u2019 padded suit and headgear as protection when he teaches his classes. \u201cA lot of people think that in a dangerous situation, you have to either attack or negotiate, but there is a third option available \u2014 and that is passive resistance. You have to fight intelligently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the rest of the story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/life\/education\/adapted-self-defence-courses-make-everyone-capable-of-fighting-back\/article_b63b58f0-e9ea-5aa6-849c-08c2c91e97b6.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=email&amp;utm_campaign=user-share\">The Suburban<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--\nPassive resistance can take many forms, according to Manoli. \u201cWe often teach people to kick and run away, but on MS patients, it is often the legs that start to go first and so we can\u2019t teach that strategy. Passive resistance can take on the form of negotiating, yelling loudly for help, calling attention to themselves, faking an injury or an illness.\n\n\u201cRather than hitting and running away, we teach the clients they need to move in and grab their attacker, because very often their biggest concern is losing their balance and falling.\u201d\n\nManoli added that grabbing the attacker also helps the victim stay upright.\n\nWest Island MS Self-Help Group director Nicole Duchastel was impressed with how the classes were organized, saying Manoli spent time breaking down each class into theoretical, tactical and analytical phases for the students to better understand the concepts.\n\n\u201cGeorge was very hands-on,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is an at-risk population in a way that is less and they got a lot of great information they can use.\u201d\n\nManoli had students conduct simulations in confined spaces, in parking lots, outdoors and in any possible situation.\n\n\u201cHe prepared the students right down to the details of how you hold your keys when you walk to your car, because the way you hold them can allow them to be used as a defensive weapon. We covered many different situations \u2013 both how to deal with them and how to avoid them,\u201d Duchastel said, adding Manoli was everything you could ask for in an instructor. \u201cGeorge was absolutely fantastic. He listened, he was attentive, very adaptable and had a ton of solutions.\u201d\n\nMS self-help group member Carmine Zampini, a 56-year-old Kirkland resident, said the course was \u201cvery insightful and a great learning experience,\u201d adding that she now feels safer on the street than she felt before. \u201cI would like to take some more classes in the future. It was extremely worthwhile and I think more people should take them,\u201d she said.\n\n<em>For more information on the West Island MS Self-Help Group, call 514-676-1588 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/mssociety.ca\/\">mssociety.ca<\/a>. For more information on George Manoli\u2019s self-defence courses, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/manoli.ca\/\">manoli.ca<\/a><\/em>\n\n<strong>This story was originally published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/life\/education\/adapted-self-defence-courses-make-everyone-capable-of-fighting-back\/article_b63b58f0-e9ea-5aa6-849c-08c2c91e97b6.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=email&amp;utm_campaign=user-share\">The Suburban<\/a><\/strong>\n\n--><\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was originally published in The Suburban It isn\u2019t often that George Manoli learns something new. 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