Wedding Blog

Ever since moving into the city, Mr. Toucan’s been bugging me to take a Women’s self-defense class. I finally agreed because he guilt tripped me into it by say some of the following:

“I worry about you when you walk home from school at night. It would make me feel better.”
“What would I do if something happened to you?”
“Please, do it for me?”
“You will never have to buy me another gift ever again if you do this.”

Kinda sweet, huh? Since he was so adamant about me going to class, AND sent me a link to sign up for a Rape Aggression and Defense class offered by my school, I signed up.

I pretty much complain all the time about having to go to class because it’s at an awkward time (for me anyway), and it’s my 3rd class in so many days during the week. However, the class itself is rather fun. Once you get over the yelling, “No!” all the time out loud in front of the class, it’s quite enjoyable. Because women are generally smaller and weaker than men, the objective of the class is to learn how to maximize women’s strength when fighting off an attacker.

Recently, we learned how run away from an attacker while blocking and fighting back. Next week, we’ll learn about ground assault, and how to roll a 300 lb attacker off of you! And the final week, we’ll be doing simulations. Our attackers will look like this:

We’ll be put into positions like this:
And this:
And, we’ll have to punch, kick and claw our way out. It looks kinda fun? I’ll have to see if they’ll let me bring my camera. Maybe I can show you all little of my RAD experience.

I’m letting people jump me and beat me up to make Mr. Toucan happy. The things you do for each other…

Have you done anything you didn’t want to do to make your significant other happy?

*all images taken from the RAD website. Courses are $25, though some towns/cities and schools offer classes free of charge or at discount. RAD is a national program - to find one in your area look here.