The piercing scream, like a sound from a horror film, triggered taekwondo instructor Simon An to draw on his years of martial arts training.
Around 4 p.m. Tuesday, shortly after the doors of his family-owned and -operated studio in Texas opened for evening classes, An and his father, his mother, his older sister and his younger brother heard shrieks coming from a neighboring business.
The family of five, each with a fourth-degree black belt, run the Yong-in Taekwondo studio in Katy, outside Houston. They initially ignored the sounds, assuming they came from employees playing around in their break room. But then a piercing “final scream” prompted the family into action, A said.
His family ran to the store and opened a door. There they found a man on top of a young woman with his hands “in [in]appropriate places” as she attempted to fend him off, A said.
An’s father, Hong, yanked the attacker away by his shirt and pinned him to the ground. An’s sister, Hannah, grabbed the girl and rushed her out of the room while An and his brother helped subdue the attacker.
People, this is what bravery looks like… Not walking around Walmart with an AK 15 and a Sons of Anarchy shirt
Given their training history, they are most likely immigrants. The complex they are in is already diverse, and while this situation is terrible, I hope this is a story that spreads into the classic Texas population in a good way.
The guy assaulting was lucky it was a Tae Kwon Do family and not Krav Maga. Krav Maga dont take hostages.
For those who don’t know
Krav Maga is the martial art of eye pokes and groin kicks and it’s what the IDF train with
Small pipi vibes
Even if Krav Maga teaches more attacks and more “leathal” attacks. i would hope 5 of them at the same stage as these individuals, 4th degree black belts and instructors, would be able to restrain 1 individual without permanent damage.
When i think of someone that is that well trained i think they are trained in more than just the moves. Going through my martial arts training we were taught the fighting mentality and spirit as well as just the moves.
Edit: I’ve never been through either of these training styles so I’m making assumptions and may be wrong.
My first martial arts lesson the instructor told us that as white belts, if we manage a good hit against a black belt, that’s a good white belt. If a black belt fully hits or kicks the white belt, that’s a bad black belt.
I know it didn’t happen this way, but it should have.
Imagine stopping a sexual assault as a family, what a bonding activity!
In all seriousness, what great story. I hope they’re business improves enough to open a second location from this!
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact, it was a little bit frightening
Do do do do do do, do do do.
Imagine assaulting someone and whole family comes in and beats your ass.
Imagine sexually assaulting someone? Ew no thanks
No you’re reading it wrong. Op wasn’t saying imagine like you are imagining yourself sexually assaulting someone and getting your ass beat. They’re just saying it like to imagine the comical situation where some idiot is sexually assaulting someone and then a whole ass family shows up and kicks their ass.
Here’s a better more generic example.
Imagine talking shit in a video game and then losing.
Hope this clears it up
I don’t really get why you’re saying that because both your example and what OP said are from a first person perspective.
It’s an English quirk.
Mostly that first person perspective is meant to humiliate the person who committed the act, in this case the sex offender mentioned in the post. It doesn’t matter if they’ll ever read it or not, either.
Thank you I clearly wasn’t explaining it effectively
That is super dope. Glad for my home county to have people that compassionate as well as skilled.
반갑네요 ㅋㅋ
레미에 한국인 몇명 있는지 궁금하다…
(My grammar sucks :( )
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Nice to meet you too ;-)
Of course this didn’t actually happen. Gov. Piss Baby Abbott said that abortions didn’t need to be legal because they were going to stop rape in the state of Texas…/s. Ew, I threw up in my mouth a little typing that…
Imagine getting your ass kicked by this family and the grandma just jumps in with a sandal.
Great to see from these instructors.
This reminds me of this:
