LEERLING VAN DE MAAND OKTOBER 2007 IS GEWORDEN:

Julie Wintrip

Hi my name is Julie Wintrip.

Last year I decided I wanted to follow some sort of self-defence class and a friend suggested Krav Maga. I had never done any martial arts or close-contact sport before. I’ve been training Krav Maga in Amsterdam for a year now and really enjoying it. In England I was a regular Netball player which is a completely non-contact sport, totally the opposite of Krav Maga!

Since arriving from England we have been living here for three years now but I regularly visit friends and family in the UK. I also enjoy skiing and cycling the 16km to work in Zuid-Oost (where I work as a Retail Designer), gardening and taking the boat out on Amsterdam’s waters on sunny days. You can often find me in the kitchen baking cakes.

Through Krav Maga I find my body is much stronger now (I could not do press-ups before!) and I have a better condition as well as also feeling more confident on the street should any situations come my way.

I also enjoy learning new techniques and practising them so they are second nature. It is very important to me that we train with men as they are normally stronger and have more power than most women so we can really test our strength when partnering them.
There are fewer women in the training sessions but I think the men are often pleasantly surprised that we give as good as we get!

Julie Wintrip