013: INTERVIEW: Everyday Self Defense In The Metropolis with Beverly Baker

Nov 4, 2019

Beverly Baker is a student and observer of violence dynamics who has taught personal safety courses for LAPD's Community Police Academy, corporations, LA's Skid Row, women’s shelters, colleges/universities, public school districts and the general public for 20 years.

She holds a 2nd dan black belt in Cha Yon Ryu martial arts, and over the past 30 years has studied various martial arts including traditional Asian arts, Krav Maga and boxing. She currently trains and competes in judo.
 
Beverly is a volunteer escort at a healthcare clinic where she observes and physically manages the principles of conflict on the front lines where politics and religion collide. 

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Growing up in Philadelphia and getting catcalled at age 10; education, martial arts and the path to self defense
• Challenges of and insights gained in volunteering as an escort at a women’s health clinic
• Becoming a self defense instructor and developing the Asphalt Anthropology class
• Common misconceptions and false beliefs about personal safety
• How the dominance of the physical realm in defining self defense is a disservice to women
• Working with women on skid row
• Must-know concepts & tools women need to have to be safer
• “Street dodges” - the magic elbow
• Asphalt Anthropology Bingo cards!

 

SOCIAL MEDIA INFO:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metrofinishingschool/

Website: https://www.metrofinishschool.com/

 

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW:

Article:
https://www.metrofinishschool.com/post/staring-into-the-abyss-without-becoming-the-monster

Asphalt Anthropology Bingo: https://44c50343-16d8-4fb9-8f17-6ca02936e219.filesusr.com/ugd/d0f4e3_1ae591e23c444026874752058e10e4ba.pdf