{"id":56269,"date":"2014-09-25T13:20:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T20:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=56269"},"modified":"2014-09-29T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:23:04","slug":"free-self-defense-seminars-in-lancaster-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2014\/09\/25\/free-self-defense-seminars-in-lancaster-this-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Free self-defense seminars in Lancaster this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Taekwondo<\/a>
Taekwondo Master William Robinson (pictured) and LAPD Detective Mark Pursel will teach free interactive self-defense seminars Saturday, Sept. 27 in Lancaster. Women and children will receive hands-on experience on how to react in life-threatening scenarios.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LANCASTER \u2013 In association with the nonprofit organization Team PRIDE, Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Pursel and Taekwondo Master William Robinson will be teaching free interactive self-defense seminars in Lancaster this Saturday, Sept. 27.<\/p>\n

A children\u2019s safety seminar will take place from 9 to 10:30 a.m., and a women\u2019s self-defense seminar will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Both seminars will take place at ATA Martial Arts, located at 1040 East Avenue K in Lancaster.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Dozens<\/a>
Dozens of local women attended a similar seminar in 2012. (Photo courtesy William Robinson.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The children’s seminar is for boys and girls, ages 6 to 12, and it will cover safety and bully prevention strategies, as well as self-defense and breakaway techniques, according to organizers.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s self-defense seminar is targeted toward females; however, it is open to anyone age 13 and older. Detective Pursel will cover safety and crime prevention strategies, and then Master Robinson will demonstrate basic strikes, kicks, and breakaway techniques. Attendees will receive hands-on experience on how to react in life-threatening scenarios.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of times people can avoid many kinds of problems and never even have to defend themselves just by being aware of their surroundings and taking basic steps\u2026 so I\u2019ll be covering things like that,\u201d Detective Pursel said. \u201cMaster Robinson will be covering the worst case scenarios, where someone actually does grab you or tries to take you somewhere, how to break away and use simple, effective self-defense techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSafety and awareness training is very important, especially with the holiday season approaching. We\u2019re doing this as a public service to keep people safe,\u201d Pursel added.<\/p>\n

Both seminars are free and open to the public, but attendees must pre-register by calling 661-948-5425.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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LANCASTER \u2013 In association with the nonprofit organization Team PRIDE, Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Pursel and Taekwondo Master William Robinson will be teaching free interactive self-defense seminars in Lancaster this Saturday, Sept. 27. A children\u2019s safety seminar will take place from 9 to 10:30 a.m., and a women\u2019s self-defense seminar will take place from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}