A law enforcement officer working to arrest a suspect safely. A woman who fought off an attacker with her self-defense skills. An emergency room doctor trying to contain an aggrieved patient without causing injury.
These are just a few of the people who’ve learned what martial arts teacher Karri Rahkonen calls “the small lessons.”
“And then I had people who really interpreted the big lessons, the confidence lessons, and took them to get out of abusive relationships, or develop the confidence to really try for their dream career,” he said…