18-year-old Anna can confirm this. It is her third lesson, but she is no stranger to martial arts. “I do kickboxing, so I could already kick my knee. But strangling is completely new to me.” And she was soon allowed to experience the discomfort of that. “Last training three men ran up to me with punching bags. Suddenly one of them unexpectedly threw the bag away and started strangling me. I thought shit, what’s happening? I immediately thought: Not at all shit, I know exactly what to do And then you can do that too. When I cycled home I felt very tough, I thought: I can do this. I can do something with this.”
Safety training on International Women’s Day: ‘Now I know exactly what to do’
