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Hospitality business junior Rachel Inglot, left, copies the guard stance as demonstrated by Jane Nelson, the trainer for MSU's Self Defense for Women program. Inglot said self-defense is something everyone should know but not necessarily have to use.
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Hospitality business junior Rachel Inglot, left, copies the guard stance as demonstrated by Jane Nelson, the trainer for MSU's Self Defense for Women program.
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Jane Nelson, right, trainer for the Self Defense for Women program, corrects Michelle Harkins, the temporary acting coordinator for the group, on her form for getting out of a wrist grab. Nelson has a 20-year background in self-defense and martial arts.
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Jane Nelson, right, trainer for the Self Defense for Women program, corrects Michelle Harkins, the temporary acting coordinator for the group, on her form for getting out of a wrist grab.
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Nelson has a 20-year background in self-defense and martial arts.
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Source: Jane Nelson
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On Saturday, five new facilitators met in the judo room of IM Sports-West to train with Jane Nelson, who began as a facilitator not long after the program started.
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Nelson got her start in the program much like most of her trainees - she took the kinesiology class when she was an undergraduate student at MSU in the 1980s.
"I really enjoyed (the class)," she said."But at the same time, it made me realize how unaware I was of things and how I felt if something actually happened that I was totally unprepared to actually do anything about it."
New facilitators receive 16 hours of training from Nelson, in which they learn more than the information they teach in the two-hour programs, including a solid background in physical defense, but also an extensive background in statistics about assault and other forms of violence.
"I find that students who want to become facilitators want to empower other students, but they also want to deepen their own learning and so that's what we want for them as well," Nelson said.
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"We want to recognize that sexual assault in particular, compared to other forms of violence, is much more directed toward women than it is toward men," Nelson said."We really wanted to acknowledge that in the title of the program as well as in the information we give."
But even so, the Self Defense for Women program is not exclusively for women - two of the new trainees are men, which Nelson said encourages men to attend, and it's helpful to get their perspective.
She said the program addresses sexual assault risks for men, but the main focus still is on college-aged women, who make up most of the audience.
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Another aim is to clear up misconceptions, such as the myth that not walking alone at night will keep a person from getting assaulted, Nelson said.
"We want (to hire) student facilitators who know that there's a lot more to it than not walking alone at night," she said.
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