There is Saturday training as usual.
1:00pm today.
22 June, 2013
20 June, 2013
Class cancelled - Thursday 20th June
Due to dangerous road conditions, class tonight is cancelled.
We will make up for it when I see you next.
We will make up for it when I see you next.
- Check back here for news about Saturday's class. Brent has the key, so you could text him, or get in touch with Mike or me.
18 June, 2013
Self-defence in the News - No. 45
Daughter, 18, cuts off her father's head after he rapes her
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2342526/Daughter-18-cuts-fathers-head-raped-Papua-New-Guinea-village-home.html
"Daughter, 18, cuts off her father's head after he raped her in their Papua New Guinea village home."
By Richard Shears
Protective ring: Villagers in the remote western highlands of Papua New
Guinea say they will not let police talk to the 18 year old rape victim
(file image)
A teenage girl chopped her father's head clean off with a bush knife after he raped her in their home in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Now residents of the village have formed a protective ring around the 18-year-old, refusing to hand her over to the police because they agreed her 'evil' father deserved to die.
A local church leader, Pastor Lucas Kumi from the village of Rang in the Western Highlands, said the entire community would refuse to allow the girl to be subjected to any official investigation.
'The people and leaders in our area went and saw the headless body of the father after the girl reported the incident to them and explained why she had killed her father,' said Pastor Kumi.
He told the Post Courier newspaper that the father, in his mid-40s, raped his daughter when they were alone in their house after the mother and two other children from the family went to visit relatives for the night.
'The father went to his daughter's room in the night and raped her repeatedly.
'The father wanted to rape his daughter again in the morning and that was when the young girl picked up the bush knife and chopped her father's head off,' said Pastor Kumi.
'We've all agreed that she is free to stay in the community because the father deserved to die.
'The daughter did what she did because of the trauma and the evil actions of her father, so that is why we have all agreed that she remains in the community.'
He said a ring of
protection had been placed around the girl, who will be kept away from
any official investigation.
'The community have also agreed not to conduct any formal burial service for the father.'
09 June, 2013
Mid-year get-together
Looks like it's all arranged.
Saturday, 15 June at our local.
For details, contact one of the senior students who usually train on Saturdays, eg. Mike, Brent, Hadrian, Ange... or send me a text.
Anthony
Self-defence in the News - No. 44
Woman fights armed invader
http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/news/woman-fights-armed-invader/1900229/
10am UPDATE: Police have arrested a teenager after a woman fought off an attacker in her Ruakaka home early yesterday morning.
Detective Seargeant Shane Pilmer said a 17-year-old had been arrested last night and would appear on the Whangarei District Court today.
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A 40-year-old Northland woman needed surgery for a deep gash to her hand after she fended off a knife-wielding intruder who had climbed through her bedroom window.
Police detectives were yesterday interviewing Ruakaka residents near Wahanui Walkway after the early-morning attack on the woman, whose young child was sleeping in another room.
The incident comes two weeks after a man tried to sexually assault a 15-year-old girl in her Marsden Point Rd home.
The man struggled with the girl but he was scared off by a neighbour leaving home next door.
No arrest has been made in that case.
Head of both investigations Detective Sergeant Shane Pilmer was not linking the two attacks but said they had similarities and that was concerning. Police were unsure of the motive behind the latest attack.
The woman had been woken by a noise outside her window about 4am yesterday. She had got up to see what was happening and found a man with a bandanna around his face climbing through the bedroom window.
Mr Pilmer said a struggle ensued on the bedroom floor when the man produced a knife. Both the woman's hands were cut and surgery for a deep cut on one hand had been scheduled at Whangarei Hospital yesterday.
The woman managed to fend off the attacker, who had fled out the bedroom window.
The woman had then raised the alarm.
"She was very shaken up and very distraught. This could easily have been a lot worse. During the scuffle, she could easily have been fatally stabbed," Mr Pilmer said.
A police dog and handler were called but were unable to find a trail. St John ambulance officers were called to the house and transferred the woman to hospital.
The attacker has been described as a male Maori, of slim build with short hair, aged in his 20s or possibly younger. At the time, he was wearing a white T-shirt, black jeans and fawn-coloured shoes.
He also had a brown or fawn-coloured bandanna around his face.
Mr Pilmer said detectives were determined to track down the man to ensure there were no further attacks.
In the meantime, he urged home owners in the Ruakaka area to make sure windows and doors were securely locked at night.
He called on anyone who may have noticed anyone acting suspiciously in the Wahanui Walkway area late on Thursday or early on Friday to contact police.
On June 22, a man, described as a male Maori in his 30s, walked down the driveway of a Marsden Point Rd house, knocked on the door and spoke to a girl about 9.45am.
After speaking to him, the girl closed the door and turned to walk back inside the house. But the man pulled the door open and entered the house.
Mr Pilmer said there was a struggle between the girl and the man - the girl ending up on the ground.
The man had then tried to sexually assault the teenager but someone had left a neighbouring property and disturbed the attacker.
The girl had raised the alarm with a friend who rang police. She had sustained cuts and bruising and was seen by ambulance staff at a nearby house.
If you can help call Mr Pilmer directly on 09 4304589 or anonymously on 0800 Crimestoppers.
03 June, 2013
01 June, 2013
Self-defence in the News - No. 43
Nurse speaks out after Hamilton knife attack
HARRY PEARL
01/06/2013
The victim of a knife attack near Waikato Hospital this week says she and other hospital staff "shouldn't have to feel scared".
Two female nurses were threatened by a man wielding a knife shortly after 10pm on Thursday night.
The nurses, who had just parked their car in Horne St before starting a night shift, were confronted by a man who knocked on the driver's side-window, opened the car door, and threatened the pair with a knife.
He then repeatedly told both women to "get out" of the car, police said.
Detective Constable Lucy Southall of the Hamilton CIB said the driver of the car kicked out at her attacker and both women refused to budge.
"After a short while the attacker fled the scene in the direction of the hospital and the Pembroke St-Selwyn St intersection."
Police and district health board management have condemned the attack, and appealed for help from members of the public who may have seen someone acting suspiciously in Horne St between 10pm and 10.30pm.
One of the victims, who asked not to be named, said people knew that the hospital area was full of vulnerable women.
"We need people to respect us.
"We are looking after sick kids and their families and the last thing we need is to be abused at work or on our way to work.
"I shouldn't have to feel scared."
Ms Southall said police believed that a couple seen walking along Horne St shortly after 10pm could be the key to solving the attack.
"The area where the attack took place was one with poor light. However, the victims described the attacker as a dark-skinned male aged in his early to mid-twenties of average height with brown eyes and shaved black hair."
The attacker wore a red and white patterned bandanna over his face and the weapon was described as a small pocket knife with a 7cm to 8cm blade, Ms Southall said.
The young woman seen walking with a man just before the attack was described as looking about 18 years old with long blonde or brown hair tied in a long ponytail. She had a white push-type scooter.
- © Fairfax NZ News
13 May, 2013
07 May, 2013
03 May, 2013
Self-defence in the News - No. 41
'Predator mode' scares off burglars
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/8626910/Predator-mode-scares-off-burglars
HARRY PEARL
03/05/2013
BRUCE MERCER/Fairfax NZ
CHASED BURGLARS: Aiya Van Kooten wasn't about to let burglars escape when they entered her home.When Aiya Van Kooten stood face-to-face with a burglar in her bedroom, her left eye twitched, then she went into "predator mode".
"I screamed at him... jumped off my chair, leaped over my bed and sprinted after him down the stairs," she said.
The 20-year-old student was studying at her Dinsdale, Hamilton, home when two burglars entered through an unlocked door last Saturday at about 5.30pm.
"There were two of them; they were about 17-years-old. I said: you've robbed the wrong house."
Although she was the only one home, Van Kooten said she had no regard for her safety - instead, she said she was just overwhelmed with "rage".
"I just thought these guys are in my house, this is breaking the law... I'm gonna get you."
Van Kooten, who lives with her grandmother, said she chased the pair outside, where she managed to "boot one of them up the arse" before they clambered over her fence and into an adjacent paddock.
"They dropped the laptop and camera - I didn't realise they were carrying it."
Although she had a towel wrapped around her head, and no shoes on her feet, she didn't give up the chase.
After pushing though the back gate of the property, she chased the pair on to the road and then flagged down a passing SUV.
The driver decided to help and, with Ms Van Kooten inside the vehicle, pursued the offenders through the neighbourhood streets until the burglars ended up at Bremworth Park.
While Van Kooten, the driver and a member of the public - who she described as looking like an "ex-military man" - scoured the park for the pair, police arrived.
"All of sudden we saw the police car speed up and head down the street.
"We ran down there and the military guy had one of the robbers pinned down to the ground and the police came and got him."
Van Kooten was a victim of one of 78 burglaries in Hamilton between Anzac Day and 6am Monday morning.
Yesterday, she had a video conference with one of the offenders and several other burglary victims of the teen.
"He had a bad attitude at first, but he started to realise the impact of what he was doing."
Far from consigning the event to the past, Van Kooten asked whether the offender would be willing to see her again so she could help him with his rehabilitation.
He agreed, reluctantly, and she is set to visit him at a correctional facility in Rotorua in the next few months.
© Fairfax NZ News
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