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2022 Blogs/Vlogs

Multiple Attacker Self Defense Drill

In this video, you will see a Multiple Attacker Self Defense Drill that you can practice to help you develop self defense skills to survive attacks from multiple people. The key point is to stay away from your attackers and create an escape opportunity.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted September 21, 2022

TRY This Self Defense Drill | Self Defense For Beginners

Try this self defense drill the next time you are training your self defense. Great drill for all experience levels, from beginners to advanced. Taught by Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan, two Taekwondo Black Belts.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted September 14, 2022

How To Survive Ground and Pound in Self Defense

How To Survive Ground and Pound in Self Defense, covered by Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan at the recent Taekwondo Black Belt Testing in June 2022.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted August 31, 2022

How To Avoid Being Taken Down To The Ground

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan go over How To Avoid Being Taken Down To The Ground at a recent taekwondo black belt testing at Cobourg Tae Kwon Do in June 2022. 

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted September 7, 2022

How To Escape The Ground While Being Held Down | Self Defense For Women

How To Escape The Ground While Being Held Down taught by Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan of Empowered at a recent Taekwondo Black Belt Testing at Cobourg Tae Kwon Do on June 25, 2022

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted August 24, 2022

How To Escape Being Held Down | Women's Self Defense Technique

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan demonstrate How To Escape Being Held Down with these women's self-defense techniques taught at a recentTaekwondo black belt testing at Cobourg Tae Kwon Do, courtesy of Empowered

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted August 17, 2022

How To Defend Against Knife Attacks with Realistic Self Defense Techniques That Work

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan cover How To Defend Against Knife Attacks with Realistic Self Defense Techniques That Work at. a recent taekwondo black belt testing. Knife Defenses need to be simple and quick for them to be effective.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted August 10, 2022

Learn The Real Choke Defenses You Should Know - Women's Self Defense

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan explain the real choke defenses you should know about when someone is choking you with one or two hands at a recent taekwondo black belt testing. Concept-based self-defense allows you to make the techniques work for you and your situation.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted August 3, 2022

You Defend Against This Common Attack? | Self Defense for Women

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan go over a few basic defenses again one-handed pushes and two-handed pushes at a recent taekwondo black belt testing. The main concept of defending yourself against a push is deflecting or misdirecting the attacker's hands.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted July 27, 2022

Self Defense Moves Against Bear Hugs - Self Defense for Women

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan cover two self defense concepts you need to know against bear hugs at a recent taekwondo black belt test. The two self defense principles covered in this video are framing and dropping your weight while being attacked.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted July 20, 2022

One Step Self Defense Drill from Black Belt Testing. | Women's Self Defense

Ma'am Cheryl and Mater Jonathan explain this simple One Step Self Defense Drill at a recent Taekwondo Black Belt Testing. The self defense drill goes over some basic defenses against straight punches.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted July 13, 2022

WATCH These Self Defense Videos

WATCH These Self Defense Videos recommendations by Master Jonathan and Ma'am Cheryl of Empowered. These self defense videos cover weapon self defense, women's self defense, looking and acting confident, and more...

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted June 15, 2022

5 Self Defense Tips for the Airport That You're Probably Not Doing

This video goes over 5 Self Defense Tips for the Airport That You're Probably Not Doing and should be to help keep you safe while traveling by flying. We all take for granted that most of us will never need to defense ourselves but you can never be too prepared just in case. Traveling increases the likelihood that something could happen so implementing these self defense tips while at the airport will help reduce the risks of something happening to you.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted June 8, 2022

Ma'am Cheryl's Creative Breaking Highlights | Self Defense for Women

This video is a preview highlight reel of Ma'am Cheryl's Creative Breaking routines from the 2016 to 2018 Ontario Breaking Championships held in Cobourg and Port Hope Ontario. Ma'am Cheryl uses a lot of basic self defense strikes in her board breaking routines. 

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted June 1, 2022

How Is Board Breaking Related to Self Defense for Women?

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan discuss How Is Board Breaking Related to Self Defense for Women at the 2022 Southern Ontario Spring Martial Arts Invitational at the Cobourg Community Centre. This video shows the debut event of the IMAF Horizontal Combat Board Breaking.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted May 25, 2022

5 Minute Core Workout At Home With Equipment

5 Minute Core Workout At Home you can do With Equipment needed. This will help you strengthen and tone your midsection. A strong core is essential for the overall strength of the full body.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted May 11, 2022

5 Minute Full Body Workout You Can Do At Home

5 Minute Full Body Workout You Can Do At Home is a simple workout for your full body you can do without going to the gym or needing any expensive gym equipment. 

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted May 4, 2022

5 Minute Core Workout For Beginners - At Home Workouts

5 Minute Core Workout For Beginners is a workout for your core you can do at home or anywhere in just over five minutes a day. Great for strengthening and toning your midsection.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted April 27, 2022

5 Minute Lower Body Workout with No Equipment Needed

Follow this 5 Minute Lower Body Workout with No Equipment Needed while working out in the comfort of your own home without having to step foot in the gym and get stressed out by the thought of people watching you. 

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted April 20, 2022

Reality Of Knife Attacks - Discussion About Real Knife Self Defense

A discussion About Real Knife Self Defense and the Reality Of Knife Attacks. Real Knife fights and self defense situations are nothing like what Hollywood movies show them to be. The Reality Of Knife Attacks is very messy, unpredictable, and extremely dangerous to your health. Knowing how to defend yourself against a real knife attack takes a lot of training and at the end, the best defense is leaving the situation as soon as you can without engaging with the knife or your attacker.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted April 13, 2022

5 Minute Upper Body Workout For Beginners

Follow along with this 5 Minute Upper Body Workout For Beginners that you can do in the comfort of your own home without having to go to the gym to build a stronger upper body and gain more confidence. 

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted April 6, 2022

How To Defend Against Collar Grab - 3 Simple Defenses Against Lapel Grabs

You will learn How To Defend Against Collar Grab in this video with 3 simple defenses against the collar or lapel grabs. Ranging from you need to defend yourself with self defense strikes to defending yourself with joint locks, to using your situational awareness to deflect an attempted attack. Defend against collar grabs works against someone grabbing your shirt or coat.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted March 30, 2022

How To Fight Like Miyagi Do Karate - Are The Blocks Real?

An in-depth look at How To Fight Like Miyagi Do Karate by looking at whether or not the blocks are for real or not? We all know the Miyagi Do Karate blocks from The Karate Kid movies and Cobra Kai Netflix series, but are these blocks real martial arts defense techniques or just made up? Can you the miyagi do blocking techniques in real self defense?

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted March 2, 2022

Ma'am Cheryl's Top 3 Favourite Self Defense Strikes

This video goes over Ma'am Cheryl's Top 3 Self Defense Strikes that she goes to most of the time when practicing self defense drills and when teaching women's self defense classes. These 3 self defense strikes include elbow strikes, knee strikes, and punches and throat strikes used for self defense situations where you need to strike your attacker.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted February 23, 2022

Cobra Kai Karate Fighting Style - Preemptive Striking for Self Defense

Is the Cobra Kai Karate Fighting Style a good thing or a bad thing? In this video, we will discuss how you can use the cobra kai fighting style for preemptive striking in self-defense situations where you may be better off striking first instead of waiting to be physically attacked. Cobra Kai is famous for starting the fights with Miyagi do following their motto of strike first, strike hard, and no mercy. Not good for martial arts. Preemptive striking is where you feel your life is being threatened or physical harm is about to happen and you defend yourself first versus waiting for the assault to happen.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted February 16, 2022

The Truth About Groin Strikes For Self Defense

This video discusses The Truth about Groin Strikes For Self Defense and goes over when to use groin strikes for self defense, and how to set up groin strikes and kicks to the groin. Also explains how groin strikes and kicks to the groin should be for self defense only. Never to be used for any other reason.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted February 9, 2022

Miyagi Do Karate Training For Defense Only - Good or Bad?

Miyagi Do Karate Training For Defense Only, is this a Good Thing or a Bad Thing? This is what we discuss in today's video on Miyagi Do Karate Training and whether or not you should solely rely on defense only or should you train for offense as well when it comes to self defense training? Miyagi Do Karate is a traditional martial art based on self defense but should one also focus on developing good offensive techniques as well?

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted February 2, 2022

10 Tips To Look For Confident - Self Defense Tips

10 Tips To Look For Confident to help you with your self defense skills and potential for avoiding dangerous situations before they occur. Learn how to look more confident can help you with your self confidence through practicing thess self defense and confident tips. Making them a daily habit will increase the likelihood that you will become more confident as a person which can also lead to improvements in other areas of your life. 

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted January 26, 2022

How To Deal with Random Attacks - Self Defense Tips for Women

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan teach How To Deal with Random Attacks and how to praactice and train for the randomness of self defense. Self defense can be so chaotic and knowing how to defend yourself from an attacker's random attacks is a very important factor in you escaping a self defense situation as safely as possible.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted January 19, 2022

Easy to Learn Self Defense Kicks To The Legs

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan teach Easy to Learn Self Defense Kicks To The Legs you cn use to defend yourself in a self defense situation or a fight. These Taekwondo kicks are a very powerful tool you can use to protect yourself against an attacker s they are fast powerful, and most people wouldn't expect you to kick them.

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted January 12, 2022

Trust Your Intuition and How To Look and Act Confident - Self Defense Tips for Women

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan discuss Trust Your Intuition and Look and Act Confident. Maa'am Cheryl can't stress enough about your need to trust your intuition or gut feelings. he also discusses how you can look and act confident and how to work on your self-confidence. 

Ma'am Cheryl and Master Jonathan
Posted January 5, 2022
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