Coeds learn self-defense
By CHARLENE MULLER
Mad rapists and fresh dates — beware!
Before you attack a woman in the Lawrence area again you had better make sure she is not enrolled in the KU Women's Self-Defense Class.
The class, a branch of the KU Karate Club, meets each Thursday night and is instructed by Max Muller, Prairie Village law student.
Muller teaches women a mixture of karate, judo and alkido
"Each martial art stresses different techniques," Muller said, "and a woman needs a mixture of techniques to physically defend herself in different situations unless she is proficient in one martial art."
Karate, Muller said, stresses punching, kicking and body shifting. Judo centers on throwing, choking and tripping. He said jujitsu is a combination of judo and karate. In judo you flip a man over your shoulder palm down, bending his elbow. In jujitsu, you flip him palm up, break his elbow and strike him when he is down, he said. There is more breaking of bones and joints than throwing, as in judo.
Muller said he teaches the women how to convert simple things, such as a purse and a
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tube of lipstick, into weapons. If a woman has a tube of lipstick between her index and middle fingers, she can clutch her fist around it and by punching with it can put her force into a small area and penetrate deeply into her opponent's body.
Mental attitude is stressed, Muller said. A woman can usually defend herself without lifting a finger. The class teaches women poise in situations of stress. Because of this, he said, size is not important. Any girl can be overpowered by an attacker, he said.
Muller gives an example of a 4-foot-10 inch student he taught two years ago who rode home from a local tavern one night with a boy she had just met. The boy was taller than 6-feet and weighed more than 200 pounds. He grabbed her waist and would not let her out of the car when they arrived at her living group.
Instead of panicking, the girl said, "Hey, let me show you what I learned in karate." He laughed, let go of her to see what she would do, then she jumped out
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A graduate student said she took the course after having been raped last summer.
"Too many people," she said, "think it will never happen to me. The class 'tells it like it is' by putting you in real life situations. It makes you more perceptive to what can happen."
She said she would eventually be teaching in the inner city and thought it was important she knew how to defend herself.
The confidence you gain in the class, said Marti Crow, Pratt sophomore, extends situations in which you are threatened mentally, as well as physically. This ranges from a teacher asking a question you cannot answer in class to defending your opinion without breaking down in a heated argument.
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