Bethel Uni­ver­sity Hosts Jiu-Jitsu for Sex­ual As­sault Aware­ness Month

MISHAWAKA - Bethel Uni­ver­si­ty’s In­tra­mu­rals and Well­ness De­part­ments co-hosted a Jiu-Jitsu event as a part of Sex­ual As­sault Aware­ness Month. 

Nick Geever, res­i­dent di­rec­tor and di­rec­tor of In­tra­mu­rals, and Court­ney Chap­man, Well­ness Pro­gram co­or­di­na­tor, planned and or­ga­nized the event. 

Geever said, “Court­ney has had monthly events for well­ness and to do new things and meet new peo­ple, hob­bies, prac­tice well­ness. We thought this would be a good op­por­tu­nity to of­fer self-de­fense.”

Geever also said he per­son­ally does Jiu-Jitsu, in a dis­ci­pline called Gra­cie Jiu-Jitsu, which he said is less sport-ori­ented and more fo­cused on self-de­fense.

They brought in McGuinn Jiu-Jitsu from South Bend to teach a sem­i­nar with some ba­sic self-de­fense moves in Good­man Gym on Mon­day, April 18, at 8 p.m. Geever said about 35 peo­ple showed up for the event.

Geever also said, “This is an awe­some op­por­tu­nity to meet new peo­ple, keep your body en­gaged, and get your mind fo­cused on things. It is both hum­bling and em­pow­er­ing. It’s a unique op­por­tu­nity to get plugged in and al­low stu­dents to see a snap­shot of that.”