Only five Fresno City College students showed up for the free women’s self-defense workshop  class held in the gym on March 20.

The workshop, aimed at teaching women how to defend themselves from attackers, was sponsored by Linda DeKruif, women’s studies instructor and John Cho, Asian American studies instructor.

“Last semester I gave my students an interview of questions in my classes to see what kind of topics they would be interested in for women’s history month,” DeKruif said. “The theme that kept coming up was women’s self-defense, so we thought for this year we would incorporate this workshop.”

Presley Fletcher, a student, said knowing how to defend herself is beneficial.

“I definitely knew a few self-defense things before, but I talked about those in the class and Cho said not to use those,” Fletcher said. “It was beneficial to not only learn new techniques, but techniques I shouldn’t be using.”