Manoli, the veteran Montreal police officer underneath the padding, is spending his off-hours, as he usually does, teaching some women the rudiments of self-defence to ward off would-be sexual predators. Although he has an array of black belts in various martial arts, Manoli is essentially instructing women not on the intricacies of kung fu or karate, but rather on, yes, down-and-dirty street fighting.
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