![]() ![]() While Gangell said it’s important for kids to have the ability to thwart attacks, he said most responsibility lays with parents.ĭarren Gangell and his granddaughter, who is demonstrating the koala grip. “It doesn’t matter what age it is – they go to the steering wheel and they grip onto it like a koala.” “Also, naturally if a kid goes into that vehicle the best thing they can do is go straight to the steering wheel. “We teach the kids to latch onto the perpetrator’s legs like a koala… You can’t get that child off if they’re gripping hard enough,” he said. Instead, they should exercise physical manoeuvres like the “koala grip”. Gangell says training begins with teaching children to be alert and aware of their surroundings and to not go into shock. “We’re giving kids with techniques to protect themselves, but we’re trying to make them aware of the different situations all the time… to make sure they can react. “ say they’re teaching anti-abduction, but they’re not,” Gangell said. The gym offers specific anti-abduction training, incorporated in its martial arts and self-defence courses, for children to resist attempted assault or abduction. Gangell has been a martial arts trainer for decades and owns a martial arts school in Woodcroft. “That’s what inspired me to continually teach this sort of thing.”ĭarren Gangell at Boars Martial Arts. “When the stranger grabbed me and pulled me back I had a chance to escape, and I only knew I had my chance from what I learnt from that cop. “But I was fortunate because I learnt something from a female cop – my father was in the police force – and she taught me some moves when I was a young lad, on my front lawn. “I was dragged into a very dark area and he had my hand in a real hard grip. “She was there with a gentleman… things started to happen. “The person I was playing with went to get the ball on the other side of the canteen and didn’t come back, and I thought it was a bit strange and a bit weird so I went around. He and a friend were playing hand tennis in a schoolyard when the friend disappeared. “I only knew I had a chance to escape from what I learnt from a cop,” said Gangell. ![]() He said the informal training he received as a child was what helped him escape from a predator in the late 1960s, when he was roughly eight. ![]()
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