FIGHT CLUB
Jul 29, 2021
4 minutes
‘The class made me feel like I had a new skin – I was me again’
‘TAEKWONDO HAS MADE ME FEEL STRONG AND EMPOWERED’
Safiya Ascoli-Ball, 50, from Salford, is a black belt in taekwondo. ‘Ten years ago, I saw a taekwondo demonstration at a community event and was mesmerised by it, in awe of the technical skills. I had an overwhelming yearning to learn it – almost a powerful life-calling – but, aged 40, I thought I was too old
Two of my sons started lessons when they were five and six and, at their class, two women were doing it. They later told me they were over 50, both mums,
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