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Eddie Rose has been stabbed twice. As a retired detective,
eighth-degree black belt, International Grandmaster Martial
Arts instructor, Reiki master and ordained minister, Eddie can
teach you how to beat up an attacker, and then forgive him. Now,
Eddie joins Lee Memorial Health System to instruct a women’s
self-defense class.
“In what I teach, you will never fight. I never fight,” says
Eddie, who founded Torahana-ryu fighting science. “The secret
is, your attacker expects you to comply, but you’re not going to
comply, you’re going to do the unexpected."
Eddie teaches women to redirect energy, to use an attacker’s
strength against them. He compares the technique to dancing with
a bull. The woman becomes the matador—never in front, always
redirecting, always moving, always on the outside.
He teaches women to counterbalance and to let negative energy go
past them. “A punch means nothing to you if you don’t absorb its
energy,” he says.
Student Frances Kirkbride says she grew up always looking over
her shoulder. When she gets scared, she runs. But after 12
classes with Eddie, she has learned to harness her intuition as
her weapon, to be sensitive to negative intentions. “I feel like
I’m doing the right thing and I need to keep doing it,” Frances
says. “It’s like having your own weapon when you didn’t even
know you had one.”
For more information or to sign up for an upcoming self-defense
class, contact The Wellness Center of Cape Coral at
239-573-4800.
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