Sanguinetti
Sensei's constant commitment to help our community is reflected not
only in all the classes that he teaches on a regular basis at the
Bushikan Dojo and in the different locations where he instructs, but
also making himself available to support groups or individuals that
cannot attend his already established classes. One of his most precious
memories is related to a one day seminar that he taught at the Bushikan
Dojo to a group of teen-age
girls from Orange County. The group chose to drive one hour and a
half hours each way to come to train with Sanguinetti Sensei. This
particular group was guided by the mother of one of the girls who
understood the necessity of a teen-age girl to learn the skills of
self-defense. The group was instructed by Sanguinetti Sensei for four
hours on many subjects related to self protection. They were taught
aspects from the simple fact of how to be aware of their surroundings
to the physical concept of how to deliver an effective self-defense
technique if the need arises. The seminar was conducted on
Saturday
afternoon, Monday morning Sanguinetti Sensei received a phone call
that Sunday morning one of the girls that participated in the Saturday
seminar was attacked by a man while jogging by herself around her
house. The phone call was to let him know that the girl not only got
out of the dangerous situation safely, but she also made the arrest
possible
of the predator who attacked her. Later on the girl's family found
out that the attacker had just raped another girl before he approached
her while jogging. The girl was
able to save herself because of the instruction she had received the
previous day. Real stories such as this one make Sanguinetti Sensei
keep trying to educate and reach as many people as possible, especially
children and women whom unfortunately are more often the target of
predators that do not hesitate to harm their victims in order to obtain
their goals.
Sanguinetti
Sensei's philosophy resides in the simple concept that if more and
more possible targets are educated in the art of self-defense, less
and less predators will have the opportunity to be successful in their
attempts to hurt them.