Women’s Self-Defense Seminar, taekwondo offered at MCCC

The Monroe News
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Mark Bergmooser (left) congratulates Jack Burns on receiving his black belt last year. Bergmooser will teach a Women’s Self-Defense Seminar and taekwondo classes at MCCC this winter.
Mark Bergmooser (left) congratulates Jack Burns on receiving his black belt last year. Bergmooser will teach a Women’s Self-Defense Seminar and taekwondo classes at MCCC this winter.

A Women’s Self-Defense Seminar and three sessions of the martial art taekwondo have been set by Monroe County Community College, 1555 S. Raisinville Road.

The Women’s Self-Defense Seminar will run from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Jan. 31 in the Welch Health Education Building on the college’s main campus.

Mark Bergmooser is the instructor. He holds a fifth-degree black belt in the martial art.

The class will cover simple self-defense strategies designed to help women protect themselves from potential attack. Attendees will learn to recognize threatening situations, methods of responding to threatening situations, and ways to mentally and emotionally gather the confidence needed to survive an attack.

The cost is $29 a person with a senior fee of $14.50. To register or for more information, contact the Office of Lifelong Learning at 734-384-4127.

MCCC’s popular, noncredit taekwondo classes will begin Feb. 2. They will run from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Welch Health Education Building on the main campus.

Taekwondo also is taught by Bergmooser.

Three, four-week sessions will be offered. The second begins March 9; the third, April 4.

The cost for each four-week session is $60 a person with a senior discount rate of $31.50.

A $15 discount is offered for those who register in advance for all three sessions.

Participants also can add a private lesson to individual four-week sessions for a total cost of $95 ($59 for senior citizens) a session.

“This is a popular option for many students,” MCCC said.

Additional private lessons can also be scheduled at the student's request. Fees and times can be arranged through the Office of Lifelong Learning at 734-384-4127.

"We welcome new students from the age of 5 on up to join us and learn mind and body control through unarmed self-defense techniques, discipline and concentration," Bergmooser said. "Taekwondo translates into 'the way of kicking and punching with proper attitude and concentration' in Korean.”

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