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Since 1981, Brian Smith has taught various personal safety and martial arts courses on the south side of Chicago, both at the Metropolitan Police Self-Defense Institute and the Chicago Heights Ju Jitsu Academy.
People of all ages have trained under Smith, but he said perhaps the greatest impression he s left is on teenage boys. I’ve become a father figure to many of them, Smith said. Several who have attended the training grew up without a father in the home, looking to him as a role model. I never had much of a father figure either, he continued, stating that the goal of each program is to instill discipline in the students. Of course they have resentment in the beginning, but they begin to like it, Smith quipped.