Monday, March 21, 2011

Self-defense

During my Listening and Speaking class in pre-TESL program, our lecturer assigned us a task to do demonstration speech. I chose title self-defense for my demonstration speech. Here is my content in the demonstration:

What is Self-defense?

According to Longman Contemporary English Dictionary, self-defence is something you do to protect yourself or your property, or skills that you learn to protect yourself if you are attacked.

According to Wikipedia, Self-defence or self-defense is a countermeasure that involves defending

oneself, one's property or the well-being of another from physical harm.


Reasons Why You Should Learn Self- Defense Techniques:

v To defense yourself from sexual assault
v To defense yourself from bully
v To defense yourself from robbery
v Other form of crimes


Basic techniques:

BLOCKING

ØSingle Forearm Block
Ø Low Block
Ø Rising Block

PUNCH

ØBackfist
Ø Knife Hand
Ø Forefist

KICK

Ø Front Kick
Ø Side Kick
Ø Turning Kick



3 Different Situation to Apply Self-defense:
ü Defense against knife threat
ü Defense against punch or slap
ü Defense against kick


Example the video of tae-kwon-do (one of the martial arts that can teach self-defense)



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