About Cotton Batte
I am Cotton Batte, founder of ProtecttheRoses.com, and I started learning how to box in my family's backyard when I was six-years-old. My Dad set up a speed bag for me and coached me. I worked that bag hard for a few years until I could make it do what I wanted it to do. When I was 10-years-old, I walked down the street to my local YMCA and started taking Judo classes. This martial art was a completely different way of thinking for me, because it was about learning to fall and roll around on the mat. It was also about stance, balance, and strategy which were all things I would need in the coming years.
I witnessed a Tae Kwon Do demonstration in my high school gymnasium for the first time when I was 16-years-old and I was hooked for life. I have been studying and practicing daily for over 50 years. Tae Kwon Do is the one constant in my life that is always teaching me something important and new.
What I am focused on now is raising the size of the Army of females who will stop male aggression permanently and on the spot! As it is, no laws worldwide prevent men from assaulting or raping women and girls and I know of no law that can ever be passed to protect women that will make them safe 24/7. More than that, I believe that an attack on the body of a woman or girl has to be met with superior fighting and strategically driven tactical skills that are efficient at permanently stopping an attack from a man. I do not teach women to yell “No or Stop!” nor are they taught to hit a man three times and then scamper away to their home believing that they are safe for now because they simply made it home. I am about teaching women that men make “ten mistakes” when they attack females of any age. I teach women to recognize those “ten mistakes” as they are occurring. I teach women to show no mercy nor ask for any when under attack. I teach women to fight and hurt their attacker, before they can be hurt and only think of their well being during and after her attack.
We can wait until black turns to white before anything positive will happen for women and girls in this instance and during that waiting period of black turning to white, countless lives will be lost and countless girls and women will be raped. Personally, I am not waiting any longer for others to turn the tide of battle in the favor of women because that time of waiting, for me anyway, is over. ¡Viva la revolución!
That and that alone, is what I am about.
The Feminine Kickboxer
I owned and operated a Taekwondo school in Ipswich, England, and had a good list of students. I moved back to Dallas, Texas, in 1972 and started teaching Tae Kwon Do for a Senior Black Belt named Mr. Larry Caster. A few months later, he asked me if I wanted to do professional kickboxing, and I said yes. We had three fights as a team, one in Maryland and one in Dallas, Texas, and I won both of my fights. It was a lot of fun, and we were world champions that year. We were the Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texans.
Learning to Kick
Tae Kwon Do is best for women and girls who already have strong legs and hips or want to build strength in their legs and hips. Any woman who is on a mission to improve her body, mind, and spirit through Eastern philosophy and martial arts training could not do better than this art. With the Tae Kwon Do training I offer my students, your physical fitness, flexibility and self-confidence will certainly become something that you will be proud of and thankful for. In three or four years, your journal entries will be worth gold to you because of how much you have grown and changed.
