Due to the recent events that have affected our community, many people are asking for a way to feel protected. The loss of Foxy Goat has crushed many of us and changed the way in which we think we are safe in our homes. All of the profit for this class is going as a donation in her name to assist the 1901 Gallery Theater.
Effective self-protection is by its nature quick, violent, and dirty. It is not about kicking someone’s ass, egos, or looking tough. The purpose of this class is to share knowledge about how to cause enough damage, swiftly, ruthlessly, and unexpectedly, so that a victim can escape from an attacker and protect themselves from any further harm. It isn’t pretty, elegant, sporting, or honorable.
While avoiding conflict and being in danger is always the best strategy, sometimes that is not a possibility. The Quick, Violent, and Dirty Self-Protection seminar is designed to teach students about how to prepare for imminent assault, how to use the body’s natural weapons, and when and how to employ highly effective force-multipliers to inflict debilitating damage on an attacker with the purpose of preserving one’s safety, well-being, and own life.
Quick, Violent, and Dirty Self-Protection is a two-hour intensive lecture and demonstration of a few specific techniques, methods, and courses of action that can be learned easily and practiced repeatedly until they become second-nature survival strategies.
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”—Bruce Lee
Instructor Biography and Background
Happy-Venom has been training in fighting techniques since childhood. He been boxing since age 6 (his father was a former pro boxer), wrestling since 8, started karate and kung-fu at 10, and then began training in his main instructor’s style of Japanese jujutsu, as well as the muay Thai, wing chun, Shotokan karate, aiki-jujutsu, and Japanese weapons by age 12.
In the more than three decades since then, he has studied many styles of martial arts, including savate, tae kwon do, catch wrestling, and jeet kune do to add to his knowledge of fighting and hand-to-hand combat.
Happy-Venom is a combat veteran of Operation Desert Storm and used to do crazy shit like fighting in cages, traveled to distant lands to shoot people and blow stuff up, and wrangled drunkards in biker bars. Now he engages in more humanitarian activities like training MMA fighters and security personnel on how to beat people up more efficiently.
The cost of the class is a $20 donation. All profits are going to 1901 Gallery in Lisa’s name.
Pay by PayPal here http://www.eventbrite.com/
or $20 cash at the door
RSVP to hold your spot and to get the address: [email protected]
To contribute to the reward fund to capture Lisa Koziol-Ellis’ killer, visit the Fight for Foxy website here: http://fightforfoxy.com/FIGHTFORFOXY/justiceforlisa.html If you have any information that may help police, you are urged to come forward. Contact info for the Elgin Police Department here: http://fightforfoxy.com/FIGHTFORFOXY/INFORMATION.html
Ken and I are very excited to be involved with Playground Toronto! We’ll be giving the keynote at the Saturday night dinner plus teaching a class on pervertables earlier that same afternoon. All the details for our sessions at Playground are here. You can see ticket options and read about other sessions here.
Pervertables Class Description: What the heck is a pervertable? They are ordinary household objects you have converted over for sexy time fun. If you’ve ever picked up a spatula to spank your partner or used a neck tie as a wrist restraint, you’ve made a pervertable! Ken Melvoin-Berg and Sunny Megatron (host and Executive Producer for the Showtime original series Sex with Sunny Megatron) are a married couple that teaches together, works together and are “Ambassadors of Fuck” and will teach you how to take ordinary objects and make them into something fun (and cheap) you can use for sex. Join us with an open mind and a good sense of humor.
On Sunday well be teaching at Oasis Aqualounge nearby. Stay tuned for more details on that.
