2023-11-02 21:21:21
“So how do you take the chair? We put one hand here, the other there and, this is important, you need the four legs of the chair in a diamond shape facing your attacker. If you don’t form a diamond, your attacker can still approach you.. “
Facing instructor Eric Pat, twenty-five students. There are the regulars of his Krav Maga classes in Barcarès and Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque and then there are the others, like Nathalie. At 56, she came specially when she saw the internship announcement on social networks: “I work as an ATSEM in a nursery school in Salanque. It could happen to us: sometimes there are aggressive parents and then there can be an intrusion. I want to see what you can do with a chair. We, in the class, have a lot of very small chairs for the children but we also have a few adult chairs.”
“Save lives”
The instructor (who is also a police officer) Eric Pat first shows how to quickly get up from a chair, then quickly flee while throwing the chair at his attacker and also how to use the chair to defend yourself. “When I saw the videos of the Arras attack with this person in the school courtyard using a chair to try to repel the terrorist, I told myself that I had to teach the different techniques to as many people as possible. This is why this course is free. These are simple actions that can save lives.”
The students, as many men as women, carry out the exercises. Despite the fake knives, the atmosphere is good-natured. Emilie remains amazed by the number of participants: “I find it good. It motivates people to learn to defend themselves. But this is where we see that people are still afraid of what we see on TV or what we hear on the radio. Personally, I have already been attacked several times so it gives me confidence to do courses like this, it helps to gain self-confidence.“
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